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Peter Loewenhardt — 59 Patents

Applied Materials: 37 patents #272 of 7,310Top 4%
Lam Research: 22 patents #110 of 2,128Top 6%
Campbell, CA: #61 of 2,187 inventorsTop 3%
California: #6,060 of 386,348 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #40,067 of 4,157,543Top 1%
59 Patents All Time
Peter Loewenhardt has been granted 59 US patents while listed as an inventor at Applied Materials. The first was granted in 1995 and the most recent in August 2014. Peter Loewenhardt ranks #40,067 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.96%). Patent records list Peter Loewenhardt in Campbell, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 59 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8801892 Uniform etch system Dean J. Larson, Babak Kadkhodayan, Di Wu, Kenji Takeshita, Bi-Ming Yen +2 more 2014-08-12 $19,292,000
8573153 Multi-part electrode for a semiconductor processing plasma reactor and method of replacing a portion of a multi-part electrode Andreas Fischer, William S. Kennedy, David Trussell 2013-11-05 $8,091,000
8430970 Methods for preventing corrosion of plasma-exposed yttria-coated constituents Ganapathy Swami, Yunsang Kim 2013-04-30 $18,578,000
8337713 Methods for RF pulsing of a narrow gap capacitively coupled reactor Mukund Srinivasan, Andreas Fischer 2012-12-25
7976673 RF pulsing of a narrow gap capacitively coupled reactor Mukund Srinivasan, Andreas Fischer 2011-07-12 $5,390,000
7861667 Multi-part electrode for a semiconductor processing plasma reactor and method of replacing a portion of a multi-part electrode Andreas Fischer, William S. Kennedy, David Trussell 2011-01-04 $5,920,000
7601246 Methods of sputtering a protective coating on a semiconductor substrate Jisoo Kim, Jong Shon, Biming Yen 2009-10-13 $50,587,000
7597816 Wafer bevel polymer removal Jeremy Chang, Andreas Fischer 2009-10-06 $9,438,000
7385287 Preventing damage to low-k materials during resist stripping Siyi Li, Helen Zhu, Howard Dang, Thomas S. Choi 2008-06-10 $8,671,000
7371332 Uniform etch system Dean J. Larson, Babak Kadkhodayan, Di Wu, Kenji Takeshita, Bi-Ming Yen +2 more 2008-05-13 $38,829,000
7363876 Multi-core transformer plasma source Canfeng Lai, Michael S. Cox, Tsutomu Tanaka, Shamouil Shamouilian 2008-04-29 $20,360,000
7294580 Method for plasma stripping using periodic modulation of gas chemistry and hydrocarbon addition Seokmin Yun, Ji Zhu, Peter Cirigliano, Sangheon Lee, Thomas S. Choi +4 more 2007-11-13 $14,165,000
7244336 Temperature controlled hot edge ring assembly for reducing plasma reactor etch rate drift Andreas Fischer 2007-07-17 $31,625,000
7226852 Preventing damage to low-k materials during resist stripping Siyi Li, Helen Zhu, Howard Dang, Thomas S. Choi 2007-06-05 $15,368,000
7211518 Waferless automatic cleaning after barrier removal Xiaoqiang Yao, Bi-Ming Yen, Taejoon Han 2007-05-01 $33,380,000
7169231 Gas distribution system with tuning gas Dean J. Larson, Babak Kadkhodayan, Di Wu, Kenji Takeshita, Bi-Ming Yen +2 more 2007-01-30 $14,926,000
7078350 Methods for the optimization of substrate etching in a plasma processing system Jisoo Kim, Binet Worsham, Bi-Ming Yen 2006-07-18 $11,880,000
7041230 Method for selectively etching organosilicate glass with respect to a doped silicon carbide Xingcai Su, Bi-Ming Yen 2006-05-09 $7,161,000
6979579 Methods and apparatus for inspecting contact openings in a plasma processing system Jisoo Kim, Sangheon Lee, Sean S. Kang, Binet Worsham, Bi-Ming Yen +1 more 2005-12-27 $18,832,000
6949469 Methods and apparatus for the optimization of photo resist etching in a plasma processing system Yu-Huei Cheng, Helen Zhu, Vinay V. Phoray, Hanzhong Xiao 2005-09-27 $4,743,000
6949460 Line edge roughness reduction for trench etch Eric Wagganer, Helen Zhu, Daniel Le 2005-09-27 $4,743,000
6841943 Plasma processor with electrode simultaneously responsive to plural frequencies Vahid Vahedi, Albert R. Ellingboe, Andras Kuthi, Andreas Fischer 2005-01-11 $12,803,000
6822185 Temperature controlled dome-coil system for high power inductively coupled plasma systems Michael Welch, Paul Luscher, Siamak Salimian, Rolf Guenther, Zhong Qiang Hua +1 more 2004-11-23 $17,815,000
6755150 Multi-core transformer plasma source Canfeng Lai, Michael S. Cox, Tsutomu Tanaka, Shamouil Shamouilian 2004-06-29 $252,234,000
6744212 Plasma processing apparatus and method for confining an RF plasma under very high gas flow and RF power density conditions Andreas Fischer, Dave Trussell, Bill Kennedy 2004-06-01 $10,167,000