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Peter Keswick — 22 Patents

Applied Materials: 19 patents #703 of 7,310Top 10%
Cypress Semiconductor: 3 patents #682 of 1,866Top 40%
Newark, CA: #61 of 939 inventorsTop 7%
California: #25,951 of 386,348 inventorsTop 7%
Overall (All Time): #189,202 of 4,157,543Top 5%
22 Patents All Time
Peter Keswick has been granted 22 US patents while listed as an inventor at Applied Materials. The first was granted in 1992 and the most recent in March 2011. Peter Keswick ranks #189,202 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.6%). Patent records list Peter Keswick in Newark, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1992 to 2011Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2001.peak 41992: 1 patents19921995: 2 patents1996: 1 patents19961999: 2 patents2000: 3 patents20002001: 4 patents2002: 4 patents20022003: 2 patents2004: 1 patents20042006: 1 patents2011: 1 patents2011

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–22 of 22 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7901976 Method of forming borderless contacts Sriram Viswanathan, Vinay Krishna, Daniel Amzen 2011-03-08 $7,227,000
7112834 Gate etch process Benjamin Schwarz, Chan-Lon Yang, Kiyoko Ikeuchi, Lien Lee 2006-09-26 $3,938,000
6699795 Gate etch process Benjamin Schwarz, Chan-Lon Yang, Kiyoko Ikeuchi, Lien Lee 2004-03-02 $7,941,000
6545420 Plasma reactor using inductive RF coupling, and processes Kenneth S. Collins, Craig A. Roderick, John Trow, Chan-Lon Yang, Jerry Wong +6 more 2003-04-08 $28,870,000
6518195 Plasma reactor using inductive RF coupling, and processes Kenneth S. Collins, Chan-Lon Yang, Jerry Wong, Jeffrey Marks, David W. Groechel +7 more 2003-02-11 $17,783,000
6488807 Magnetic confinement in a plasma reactor having an RF bias electrode Kenneth S. Collins, Chan-Lon Yang, Jerry Wong, Jeffrey Marks, David W. Groechel +7 more 2002-12-03 $24,582,000
6444137 Method for processing substrates using gaseous silicon scavenger Kenneth S. Collins, Chan-Lon Yang, Jerry Wong, Jeffrey Marks, David W. Groechel 2002-09-03 $21,151,000
6440866 Plasma reactor with heated source of a polymer-hardening precursor material Kenneth S. Collins, Michael R. Rice, David W. Groechel, Gerald Yin, Jon Mohn +5 more 2002-08-27 $37,805,000
6399514 High temperature silicon surface providing high selectivity in an oxide etch process Jeffrey Marks, Jerry Wong, David W. Groechel, Chan-Lon Yang 2002-06-04 $34,666,000
6251792 Plasma etch processes Kenneth S. Collins, Craig A. Roderick, John Trow, Chan-Lon Yang, Jerry Wong +7 more 2001-06-26 $57,772,000
6218312 Plasma reactor with heated source of a polymer-hardening precursor material Kenneth S. Collins, Michael R. Rice, David W. Groechel, Gerald Yin, Jon Mohn +5 more 2001-04-17 $52,708,000
6194325 Oxide etch process with high selectivity to nitride suitable for use on surfaces of uneven topography Chan-Lon Yang, Jeffrey Marks, Nicolas Bright, Kenneth S. Collins, David W. Groechel 2001-02-27 $52,416,000
6171974 High selectivity oxide etch process for integrated circuit structures Jeffrey Marks, Jerry Wong, David W. Groechel, Chan-Lon Yang 2001-01-09 $65,370,000
6068784 Process used in an RF coupled plasma reactor Kenneth S. Collins, Craig A. Roderick, John Trow, Chan-Lon Yang, Jerry Wong +6 more 2000-05-30 $186,360,000
6036877 Plasma reactor with heated source of a polymer-hardening precursor material Kenneth S. Collins, Michael R. Rice, David W. Groechel, Gerald Yin, Jon Mohn +5 more 2000-03-14 $75,471,000
6024826 Plasma reactor with heated source of a polymer-hardening precursor material Kenneth S. Collins, Michael R. Rice, David W. Groechel, Gerald Yin, Jon Mohn +5 more 2000-02-15 $233,627,000
5990017 Plasma reactor with heated source of a polymer-hardening precursor material Kenneth S. Collins, Michael R. Rice, David W. Groechel, Gerald Yin, Jon Mohn +5 more 1999-11-23 $60,350,000
5888414 Plasma reactor and processes using RF inductive coupling and scavenger temperature control Kenneth S. Collins, Chan-Lon Yang, Jerry Wong, Jeffrey Marks, David W. Groechel 1999-03-30 $162,060,000
5556501 Silicon scavenger in an inductively coupled RF plasma reactor Kenneth S. Collins, Craig A. Roderick, John Trow, Chan-Lon Yang, Jerry Wong +7 more 1996-09-17 $16,373,000
5423945 Selectivity for etching an oxide over a nitride Jeffrey Marks, Kenneth S. Collins, Chan-Lon Yang, David W. Groechel 1995-06-13 $35,697,000
5399237 Etching titanium nitride using carbon-fluoride and carbon-oxide gas Jeffrey Marks 1995-03-21 $17,444,000
5158644 Reactor chamber self-cleaning process David Cheung, Jerry Wong 1992-10-27 $15,641,000