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Samuel C. Howells — 36 Patents

Applied Materials: 35 patents #299 of 7,310Top 5%
ESEtec Systems: 1 patents #30 of 61Top 50%
Portland, OR: #517 of 9,213 inventorsTop 6%
Oregon: #1,071 of 28,073 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #92,222 of 4,157,543Top 3%
36 Patents All Time
Samuel C. Howells has been granted 36 US patents while listed as an inventor at Applied Materials. The first was granted in 2001 and the most recent in December 2024. Samuel C. Howells ranks #92,222 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.2%). Patent records list Samuel C. Howells in Portland, OR, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2001 to 2024Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2018.peak 42001: 1 patents20012002: 1 patents2003: 1 patents20032004: 3 patents2006: 1 patents20062008: 1 patents2009: 1 patents20092012: 1 patents2013: 3 patents20132014: 2 patents2015: 3 patents20152016: 2 patents2017: 1 patents20172018: 4 patents2019: 2 patents20192020: 3 patents2021: 1 patents20212022: 1 patents2023: 2 patents20232024: 2 patents2024

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 36 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12159797 Pyrometry error detection sensor for RTP temperature control system Wolfgang Aderhold, Amritha Rammohan, Huy Q. Nguyen 2024-12-03 $97,002,000
12078547 Etalon thermometry for plasma environments Bruce E. Adams, Alvaro Garcia, Barry Craver, Tony Jefferson GNANAPRAKASA, Lei Lian 2024-09-03 $44,731,000
11703391 Continuous spectra transmission pyrometry 2023-07-18 $58,990,000
11562915 Methods, systems, and apparatus for optically monitoring individual lamps Ji-Dih HU, Chaitanya A. PRASAD, Dongming Iu, Vilen K. NESTOROV 2023-01-24 $45,726,000
11280686 Temperature measurement using etalons Bruce E. Adams 2022-03-22 $64,102,000
10948353 Thermal processing chamber with low temperature control Lara Hawrylchak, Wolfgang Aderhold, Leonid M. Tertitski, Michael S. Liu, Dongming Iu +2 more 2021-03-16 $56,717,000
10845249 Continuous spectra transmission pyrometry 2020-11-24 $38,395,000
10571337 Thermal cooling member with low temperature control Lara Hawrylchak, Wolfgang Aderhold, Leonid M. Tertitski, Michael S. Liu, Dongming Iu +2 more 2020-02-25 $22,337,000
10537965 Fiber array line generator Douglas E. Holmgren, Aaron Muir Hunter, Theodore P. Moffitt, Diwakar Kedlaya 2020-01-21 $34,637,000
10281335 Pulsed radiation sources for transmission pyrometry 2019-05-07 $13,988,000
10181409 Thermal processing apparatus Stephen Moffatt, Douglas E. Holmgren, Edric Tong, Bruce E. Adams, Jiping Li +1 more 2019-01-15 $61,415,000
10072986 Detector for low temperature transmission pyrometry 2018-09-11 $27,448,000
9953851 Process sheet resistance uniformity improvement using multiple melt laser exposures Jiping Li, Aaron Muir Hunter, Bruce E. Adams, Kim Vellore, Stephen Moffatt 2018-04-24 $74,029,000
9927622 Multiple beam combiner for laser processing apparatus Stephen Moffatt, Douglas E. Holmgren, Edric Tong, Bruce E. Adams, Jiping Li +1 more 2018-03-27 $21,583,000
9908200 Apparatus and method of improving beam shaping and beam homogenization Bruce E. Adams, Dean Jennings, Jiping Li, Timothy N. Thomas, Stephen Moffatt 2018-03-06 $32,877,000
9636778 Optical design for line generation using microlens array Douglas E. Holmgren 2017-05-02 $24,975,000
9390926 Process sheet resistance uniformity improvement using multiple melt laser exposures Jiping Li, Aaron Muir Hunter, Bruce E. Adams, Kim Vellore, Stephen Moffatt 2016-07-12 $13,832,000
9285595 Multiple beam combiner for laser processing apparatus Stephen Moffatt, Douglas E. Holmgren, Edric Tong, Bruce E. Adams, Jiping Li +1 more 2016-03-15 $10,944,000
9146337 Apparatus for speckle reduction, pulse stretching, and beam homogenization Jiping Li, Aaron Muir Hunter, Bruce E. Adams, Douglas E. Holmgren, Theodore P. Moffitt +1 more 2015-09-29 $14,922,000
8970963 Multiple beam combiner for laser processing apparatus Stephen Moffatt, Douglas E. Holmgren, Edric Tong, Bruce E. Adams, Jiping Li +1 more 2015-03-03 $11,301,000
8946594 Optical design for line generation using microlens array Douglas E. Holmgren 2015-02-03 $26,006,000
8829392 Apparatus and method of improving beam shaping and beam homogenization Bruce E. Adams, Dean Jennings, Jiping Li, Timothy N. Thomas, Stephen Moffatt 2014-09-09 $30,186,000
8693095 Method and apparatus for decorrelation of spatially and temporally coherent light Dean Jennings, Timothy N. Thomas, Stephen Moffatt, Jiping Li, Bruce E. Adams 2014-04-08 $11,783,000
8569187 Thermal processing apparatus Stephen Moffatt, Douglas E. Holmgren, Edric Tong, Bruce E. Adams, Jiping Li +1 more 2013-10-29 $9,867,000
8432613 Multi-stage optical homogenization Dean Jennings, Timothy N. Thomas, Bruce E. Adams, Jiping Li 2013-04-30 $19,200,000