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Nir Merry — 52 Patents

Applied Materials: 44 patents #199 of 7,310Top 3%
GIGas Research Institute: 6 patents #18 of 808Top 3%
Mountain View, CA: #225 of 11,022 inventorsTop 3%
California: #7,530 of 386,348 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #50,240 of 4,157,543Top 2%
52 Patents All Time
Nir Merry has been granted 52 US patents while listed as an inventor at Applied Materials. The first was granted in 1990 and the most recent in February 2025. Nir Merry ranks #50,240 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.2%). Patent records list Nir Merry in Mountain View, CA, US.

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Showing 1–25 of 52 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12235144 Micro-electromechanical device for use in a flow control apparatus Ming Xu 2025-02-25
11996307 Semiconductor processing tool platform configuration with reduced footprint Schubert S. Chu, Sushant S. Koshti, Michael Kuchar, Nyi O. Myo, Songjae Lee 2024-05-28 $67,076,000
11772958 Mass flow control based on micro-electromechanical devices Paul Z. Wirth, Ming Xu, Sushant S. Koshti, Raechel Chu-Hui Tan 2023-10-03 $34,462,000
11749540 Dual actuating tilting slit valve Jeff Hudgens 2023-09-05 $42,922,000
11749537 Side storage pods, equipment front end modules, and methods for operating equipment front end modules Patrick D. Pannese, Murali Narasimhan, Paul B. Reuter 2023-09-05 $42,922,000
11640915 Side storage pods, equipment front end modules, and methods for operating EFEMs Paul B. Reuter, Dean C. Hruzek, John C. Menk, Douglas B. Baumgarten 2023-05-02 $66,273,000
11610794 Side storage pods, equipment front end modules, and methods for operating the same Paul B. Reuter, Dean C. Hruzek, John C. Menk, Douglas B. Baumgarten 2023-03-21 $36,722,000
11450539 Substrate processing systems, apparatus, and methods with factory interface environmental controls Sushant S. Koshti, Dean C. Hruzek, Ayan Majumdar, John C. Menk, Helder Lee +3 more 2022-09-20 $25,949,000
11373891 Front-ducted equipment front end modules, side storage pods, and methods of operating the same Paul B. Reuter, Robin C. Armstrong, John C. Menk 2022-06-28 $26,475,000
11294164 Integrated system and method Igor Krivts (Krayvitz), Yoram Uziel, Albert Mariasin, Rami Elichai, Zvi Goren 2022-04-05 $91,536,000
11282724 Substrate processing systems, apparatus, and methods with factory interface environmental controls Sushant S. Koshti, Dean C. Hruzek, Ayan Majumdar, John C. Menk, Helder Lee +3 more 2022-03-22 $64,102,000
11244844 High flow velocity, gas-purged, side storage pod apparatus, assemblies, and methods Paul B. Reuter, Murali Narasimhan, Amulya L. Athayde, Patrick D. Pannese, Dean C. Hruzek 2022-02-08 $81,917,000
11244846 Multi-blade robot apparatus, electronic device manufacturing apparatus, and methods adapted to transport multiple substrates in electronic device manufacturing Jeffrey C. Hudgens, Michael R. Rice, Karuppasamy Muthukamatchi 2022-02-08 $81,917,000
11189511 Side storage pods, equipment front end modules, and methods for operating EFEMs Paul B. Reuter, Dean C. Hruzek, John C. Menk, Douglas B. Baumgarten 2021-11-30 $50,552,000
10943805 Multi-blade robot apparatus, electronic device manufacturing apparatus, and methods adapted to transport multiple substrates in electronic device manufacturing Jeffrey C. Hudgens, Michael R. Rice, Karuppasamy Muthukamatchi 2021-03-09 $63,182,000
10847391 Semiconductor device manufacturing platform with single and twinned processing chambers Michael R. Rice, Sushant S. Koshti, Jeffrey C. Hudgens 2020-11-24 $38,395,000
10758045 Load lock door assemblies, load lock apparatus, electronic device processing systems, and methods Eran Weiss, Travis Morey, Paul B. Reuter, Izya Kremerman, Jeffrey C. Hudgens +1 more 2020-09-01 $30,946,000
10278501 Load lock door assembly, load lock apparatus, electronic device processing systems, and methods Eran Weiss, Travis Morey, Paul B. Reuter, Izya Kremerman, Jeffrey C. Hudgens +1 more 2019-05-07 $13,988,000
10234261 Fast and continuous eddy-current metrology of a conductive film Edward W. Budiarto, Dmitry A. Dzilno, Todd Egan, Jeffrey C. Hudgens 2019-03-19 $17,059,000
10196845 Substrate carrier door assemblies, substrate carriers, and methods including magnetic door seal John Mazzocco 2019-02-05 $20,569,000
10192765 Substrate processing systems, apparatus, and methods with factory interface environmental controls Sushant S. Koshti, Dean C. Hruzek, Ayan Majumdar, John C. Menk, Helder Lee +3 more 2019-01-29 $20,450,000
10112259 Damage isolation by shaped beam delivery in laser scribing process James M. Holden, Todd Egan 2018-10-30 $15,195,000
9698074 Heated substrate support with temperature profile control Leon Volfovski 2017-07-04
9564349 Rapid thermal processing chamber with micro-positioning system Khurshed Sorabji, Joseph M. Ranish, Wolfgang Aderhold, Aaron Muir Hunter, Blake Koelmel +1 more 2017-02-07 $24,536,000
9530623 Process chamber apparatus, systems, and methods for controlling a gas flow pattern Chandrakant M. Sapkale, Izya Kremerman, Jeffrey C. Hudgens 2016-12-27 $14,994,000