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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Sept 30, 2025
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Praburam Gopalraja

Applied Materials: 73 patents #84 of 7,310Top 2%
San Jose, CA: #463 of 32,062 inventorsTop 2%
California: #3,836 of 386,348 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #25,685 of 4,157,543Top 1%
75 Patents All Time

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Showing 26–50 of 75 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
7335282 Sputtering using an unbalanced magnetron Jianming Fu, Fusen Chen, John C. Forster 2008-02-26
7253109 Method of depositing a tantalum nitride/tantalum diffusion barrier layer system Peijun Ding, Zheng Xu, Hong Mei Zhang, Xianmin Tang, Suraj Rengarajan +7 more 2007-08-07
7163607 Process kit for improved power coupling through a workpiece in a semiconductor wafer processing system Bradley O. Stimson, Mitsuhiro Kaburaki, John C. Forster, Eric Delaurentis, Patricia Rodriguez +1 more 2007-01-16
6991709 Multi-step magnetron sputtering process Jianming Fu, Fusen Chen, Girish Dixit, Zheng Xu, Wei Wang +1 more 2006-01-31
6974771 Methods and apparatus for forming barrier layers in high aspect ratio vias Fusen Chen, Ling Chen, Walter Glenn, Jianming Fu 2005-12-13
6911124 Method of depositing a TaN seed layer Xianmin Tang, Suraj Rengarajan, John C. Forster, Jianming Fu, Peijun Ding 2005-06-28
6899796 Partially filling copper seed layer Wei Wang, Anantha K. Subramani, Jianming Fu, Jick Yu, Fusen Chen 2005-05-31
6887786 Method and apparatus for forming a barrier layer on a substrate Hong Mei Zhang, Xianmin Tang, John C. Forster, Jick Yu 2005-05-03
6884329 Diffusion enhanced ion plating for copper fill Wei Wang, Anantha K. Subramani, Jianming Fu, Jick Yu, Fusen Chen 2005-04-26
6837975 Asymmetric rotating sidewall magnet ring for magnetron sputtering Wei Wang 2005-01-04
6824658 Partial turn coil for generating a plasma Bradley O. Stimson 2004-11-30
6790323 Self ionized sputtering using a high density plasma source Jianming Fu, Fusen Chen, John E. Foster 2004-09-14
6790326 Magnetron for a vault shaped sputtering target having two opposed sidewall magnets Anantha K. Subramani, Umesh M. Kelkar, Jianming Fu 2004-09-14
6787006 Operating a magnetron sputter reactor in two modes Jianming Fu, Fusen Chen, Girish Dixit, Zheng Xu, Wei Wang +1 more 2004-09-07
6783639 Coils for generating a plasma and for sputtering Jaim Nulman, Sergio Edelstein, Mani Subramani, Zheng Xu, Howard Grunes +2 more 2004-08-31
6784096 Methods and apparatus for forming barrier layers in high aspect ratio vias Fusen Chen, Ling Chen, Walter Glenn, Jianming Fu 2004-08-31
6758949 Magnetically confined metal plasma sputter source with magnetic control of ion and neutral densities Wei Wang, Jianming Fu 2004-07-06
6730196 Auxiliary electromagnets in a magnetron sputter reactor Wei Wang, Jianming Fu 2004-05-04
6723214 Apparatus for improved power coupling through a workpiece in a semiconductor wafer processing system Bradley O. Stimson, Mitsuhiro Kaburaki, John C. Forster, Eric Delaurentis, Patricia Rodriguez +1 more 2004-04-20
6709553 Multiple-step sputter deposition Wei Wang, Jianming Fu 2004-03-23
6673724 Pulsed-mode RF bias for side-wall coverage improvement John C. Forster, Bradley O. Stimson, Liubo Hong 2004-01-06
6660134 Feedthrough overlap coil Zheng Xu, Michael Rosenstein, John C. Forster 2003-12-09
6485618 Integrated copper fill process Jianming Fu, Fusen Chen, Girish Dixit, Zheng Xu, Sankaram Athreya +2 more 2002-11-26
6485617 Sputtering method utilizing an extended plasma region Jianming Fu 2002-11-26
6461483 Method and apparatus for performing high pressure physical vapor deposition Bradley O. Stimson, John C. Forster, Wei Wang 2002-10-08