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Norm Shendon — 24 Patents

Applied Materials: 23 patents #558 of 7,310Top 8%
CSCybeq Systems: 1 patents #5 of 14Top 40%
Redwood City, CA: #370 of 5,061 inventorsTop 8%
California: #23,266 of 386,348 inventorsTop 7%
Overall (All Time): #168,038 of 4,157,543Top 5%
24 Patents All Time
Norm Shendon has been granted 24 US patents while listed as an inventor at Applied Materials. The first was granted in 1993 and the most recent in August 2007. Norm Shendon ranks #168,038 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.0%). Patent records list Norm Shendon in Redwood City, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1993 to 2007Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2000.peak 51993: 1 patents19931996: 1 patents1997: 2 patents19971998: 4 patents1999: 4 patents19992000: 5 patents2001: 2 patents20012002: 1 patents2003: 1 patents20032006: 1 patents2007: 2 patents2007

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–24 of 24 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7255632 Chemical mechanical polishing system having multiple polishing stations and providing relative linear polishing motion Robert D. Tolles, Sasson Somekh, Ilya Perlov, Eugene Gantvarg, Harry Q. Lee 2007-08-14 $16,337,000
7238090 Polishing apparatus having a trough Robert D. Tolles, Sasson Somekh, Ilya Perlov, Eugene Gantvarg, Harry Q. Lee 2007-07-03 $46,647,000
7097544 Chemical mechanical polishing system having multiple polishing stations and providing relative linear polishing motion Robert D. Tolles, Sasson Somekh, Ilya Perlov, Eugene Gantvarg, Harry Q. Lee 2006-08-29 $18,591,000
6503134 Carrier head for a chemical mechanical polishing apparatus 2003-01-07 $25,673,000
6336851 Substrate belt polisher 2002-01-08 $263,411,000
6267656 Carrier head for a chemical mechanical polishing apparatus 2001-07-31 $84,886,000
6245680 Circumferentially oscillating carousel apparatus for sequentially processing substrates for polishing and cleaning William R. Bartlett 2001-06-12 $57,514,000
6136715 Circumferentially oscillating carousel apparatus for sequentially polishing substrates William R. Bartlett 2000-10-24 $85,890,000
6126517 System for chemical mechanical polishing having multiple polishing stations Robert D. Tolles, Sasson Somekh, Ilya Perlov, Eugene Gantvarg, Harry Q. Lee 2000-10-03 $78,095,000
6080046 Underwater wafer storage and wafer picking for chemical mechanical polishing Ilya Perlov, Eugene Gantvarg, Harry Q. Lee, Robert D. Tolles, Sasson Somekh 2000-06-27 $92,951,000
6051499 Apparatus and method for distribution of slurry in a chemical mechanical polishing system Robert D. Tolles, William L. Guthrie, Jeffrey Marks, Tsungnan Cheng, Semyon Spektor +1 more 2000-04-18 $96,811,000
6019671 Carrier head for a chemical/mechanical polishing apparatus and method of polishing 2000-02-01 $104,078,000
5961372 Substrate belt polisher 1999-10-05 $73,011,000
5951373 Circumferentially oscillating carousel apparatus for sequentially processing substrates for polishing and cleaning William R. Bartlett 1999-09-14 $62,682,000
5913718 Head for a chemical mechanical polishing apparatus 1999-06-22 $117,322,000
5899800 Chemical mechanical polishing apparatus with orbital polishing 1999-05-04 $46,899,000
5820448 Carrier head with a layer of conformable material for a chemical mechanical polishing system Sam Shamouilian 1998-10-13 $26,272,000
5795215 Method and apparatus for using a retaining ring to control the edge effect William L. Guthrie, Tsungnan Cheng, Sen-Hou Ko, Harry Q. Lee, Michael Sherwood 1998-08-18 $47,752,000
5738574 Continuous processing system for chemical mechanical polishing Robert D. Tolles, Sasson Somekh, Ilya Perlov, Eugene Gantvarg, Harry Q. Lee 1998-04-14 $42,066,000
5709593 Apparatus and method for distribution of slurry in a chemical mechanical polishing system William L. Guthrie, Semyon Spektor, Ivan A. Ocanada 1998-01-20 $49,342,000
5681215 Carrier head design for a chemical mechanical polishing apparatus Michael Sherwood, Harry Q. Lee, Semyon Spektor 1997-10-28 $145,989,000
5643053 Chemical mechanical polishing apparatus with improved polishing control 1997-07-01 $28,802,000
5582534 Orbital chemical mechanical polishing apparatus and method Dennis R. Smith 1996-12-10 $24,149,000
5205082 Wafer polisher head having floating retainer ring Kenneth C. Struven, Robert J. Kolenkow 1993-04-27