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Ralf Hofmann — 46 Patents

Applied Materials: 36 patents #287 of 7,310Top 4%
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft: 4 patents #3,516 of 22,248Top 20%
Oracle: 2 patents #5,565 of 14,854Top 40%
GAGeneart Ag: 1 patents #9 of 18Top 50%
Sap Se: 1 patents #2,890 of 6,322Top 50%
MAMan Roland Druckmaschinen Ag: 1 patents #292 of 592Top 50%
Robert Bosch Gmbh: 1 patents #10,465 of 19,740Top 55%
Soquel, CA: #7 of 187 inventorsTop 4%
California: #9,249 of 386,348 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #62,001 of 4,157,543Top 2%
46 Patents All Time
Ralf Hofmann has been granted 46 US patents while listed as an inventor at Applied Materials. The first was granted in 1993 and the most recent in August 2024. Ralf Hofmann ranks #62,001 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.5%). Patent records list Ralf Hofmann in Soquel, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1993 to 2024Bar chart with a peak of 8 patents in 2017.peak 81993: 1 patents19931998: 1 patents1999: 2 patents19992000: 2 patents2002: 1 patents20022006: 1 patents2007: 3 patents20072010: 2 patents2012: 1 patents20122014: 4 patents2015: 2 patents20152016: 4 patents2017: 8 patents20172018: 4 patents2019: 5 patents20192020: 3 patents2022: 1 patents20222024: 1 patents2024

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 46 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12073264 Decomposition of resource discovery roles, parts, and transport modeslc Simon Heimler, Steffen Goebel 2024-08-27 $3,889,000
11493841 Glass ceramic for ultraviolet lithography and method of manufacturing thereof Majeed A. Foad, Cara Beasley 2022-11-08 $47,551,000
10788744 Extreme ultraviolet lithography mask blank manufacturing system and method of operation therefor Cara Beasley, Majeed A. Foad 2020-09-29 $24,138,000
10551731 Glass ceramic for ultraviolet lithography and method of manufacturing thereof Majeed A. Foad, Cara Beasley 2020-02-04 $27,329,000
10551732 Extreme ultraviolet mask blank production system with thin absorber and manufacturing system therefor Vinayak Vishwanath Hassan, Majeed A. Foad, Cara Beasley 2020-02-04 $27,329,000
10522375 Monitoring system for deposition and method of operation thereof Edward W. Budiarto, Majeed A. Foad, Thomas Nowak, Todd Egan, Mehdi Vaez-Iravani 2019-12-31 $41,069,000
10236198 Methods for the continuous processing of substrates Banqiu Wu, Nag B. Patibandla, Toshiaki Fujita, Pravin K. Narwankar, Jeonghoon Oh +2 more 2019-03-19 $17,059,000
10209613 System and method for manufacturing planarized extreme ultraviolet lithography blank Cara Beasley, Majeed A. Foad, Timothy Michaelson 2019-02-19 $29,015,000
10199660 Shadow mask alignment and management system Byung Sung Kwak, Stefan Bangert, Michael Koenig 2019-02-05 $20,569,000
10197907 Extreme ultraviolet mask blank production system with thin absorber and manufacturing system therefor Vinayak Vishwanath Hassan, Majeed A. Foad, Cara Beasley 2019-02-05 $20,569,000
10012897 Planarized extreme ultraviolet lithography blank with absorber and manufacturing system therefor Vinayak Vishwanath Hassan, Majeed A. Foad, Cara Beasley 2018-07-03 $29,604,000
10012908 Extreme ultraviolet reflective element with multilayer stack and method of manufacturing thereof Vinayak Vishwanath Hassan, Cara Beasley, Majeed A. Foad 2018-07-03 $29,604,000
9905418 Growing graphene on substrates Cara Beasley, Majeed A. Foad 2018-02-27 $32,297,000
9870935 Monitoring system for deposition and method of operation thereof Edward W. Budiarto, Majeed A. Foad, Thomas Nowak, Todd Egan, Mehdi Vaez-Iravani 2018-01-16 $25,242,000
9748125 Continuous substrate processing system Banqiu Wu, Nag B. Patibandla, Toshiaki Fujita, Pravin K. Narwankar, Jeonghoon Oh +2 more 2017-08-29 $19,098,000
9739913 Extreme ultraviolet capping layer and method of manufacturing and lithography thereof Cara Beasley, Majeed A. Foad, Rudy Beckstrom, III 2017-08-22 $17,010,000
9690016 Extreme ultraviolet reflective element with amorphous layers and method of manufacturing thereof Cara Beasley, Vinayak Vishwanath Hassan, Majeed A. Foad 2017-06-27 $23,322,000
9612522 Extreme ultraviolet mask blank production system with thin absorber and manufacturing system therefor Vinayak Vishwanath Hassan, Majeed A. Foad, Cara Beasley 2017-04-04 $16,159,000
9612521 Amorphous layer extreme ultraviolet lithography blank, and manufacturing and lithography systems therefor Kevin Moraes 2017-04-04 $16,159,000
9595436 Growing graphene on substrates Cara Beasley, Majeed A. Foad 2017-03-14 $16,778,000
9581890 Extreme ultraviolet reflective element with multilayer stack and method of manufacturing thereof Vinayak Vishwanath Hassan, Cara Beasley, Majeed A. Foad 2017-02-28 $9,499,000
9581889 Planarized extreme ultraviolet lithography blank with absorber and manufacturing system therefor Vinayak Vishwanath Hassan, Majeed A. Foad, Cara Beasley 2017-02-28 $9,499,000
9417515 Ultra-smooth layer ultraviolet lithography mirrors and blanks, and manufacturing and lithography systems therefor Soumendra N. Barman, Cara Beasley, Abhijit Basu Mallick, Nitin K. Ingle 2016-08-16 $20,837,000
9354508 Planarized extreme ultraviolet lithography blank, and manufacturing and lithography systems therefor Cara Beasley, Majeed A. Foad, Timothy Michaelson 2016-05-31 $8,928,000
9343347 Portable electrostatic chuck carrier for thin substrates Dieter Haas, Majeed A. Foad 2016-05-17 $7,135,000