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Robert Lum — 6 Patents

Applied Materials: 6 patents #1,938 of 7,310Top 30%
Palo Alto, CA: #3,345 of 9,675 inventorsTop 35%
California: #94,478 of 386,348 inventorsTop 25%
Overall (All Time): #779,687 of 4,157,543Top 20%
6 Patents All Time
Robert Lum has been granted 6 US patents while listed as an inventor at Applied Materials. The first was granted in 1994 and the most recent in November 2016. Robert Lum ranks #779,687 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 18.8%). Patent records list Robert Lum in Palo Alto, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1994 to 2016Bar chart with a peak of 1 patents in 1994.peak 11994: 1 patents19942002: 1 patents20022005: 1 patents20052006: 1 patents20062012: 1 patents20122016: 1 patents2016

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–6 of 6 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9486893 Conditioning of grooving in polishing pads Hung Chih Chen, Rajeev Bajaj, Brian J. Brown, Fred C. Redeker 2016-11-08 $17,585,000
8133096 Multi-phase polishing pad Ramin Emami, Sourabh Mishra 2012-03-13 $10,387,000
7048607 System and method for chemical mechanical planarization Li-Wei Wu, Sourabh Mishra, Young Jeen Paik, Satyasrayan Kumaraswamy, Chiu Hung Chan +1 more 2006-05-23 $10,996,000
6857941 Multi-phase polishing pad Ramin Emami, Sourabh Mishra 2005-02-22 $18,056,000
6468136 Tungsten CMP with improved alignment mark integrity, reduced edge residue, and reduced retainer ring notching David W. Groechel, Li Wu, Chiu Chan 2002-10-22 $32,970,000
5338398 Tungsten silicide etch process selective to photoresist and oxide Chester A. Szwejkowski, Thierry Fried 1994-08-16 $53,307,000