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Sean M. Seutter — 31 Patents

Applied Materials: 19 patents #703 of 7,310Top 10%
SOSolexel: 6 patents #9 of 38Top 25%
OROb Realty: 4 patents #2 of 29Top 7%
Tesla: 1 patents #515 of 838Top 65%
San Jose, CA: #1,945 of 32,062 inventorsTop 7%
California: #16,606 of 386,348 inventorsTop 5%
Overall (All Time): #115,823 of 4,157,543Top 3%
31 Patents All Time
Sean M. Seutter has been granted 31 US patents while listed as an inventor at Applied Materials. The first was granted in 2005 and the most recent in June 2025. Sean M. Seutter ranks #115,823 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.8%). Patent records list Sean M. Seutter in San Jose, CA, US.

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Showing 1–25 of 31 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12322633 Electrostatic chuck with improved temperature control Hanish Kumar Panavalappil Kumarankutty, Sudhir Gondhalekar, Wendell Glenn Boyd, Jr., Badri Narayan Ramamurthi, Shekhar ATHANI +2 more 2025-06-03
11508584 Deuterium-containing films Mun Kyu Park, Hien Minh Le, Chih-Chiang Chuang 2022-11-22 $48,755,000
11462411 Gate contact over active regions Gaurav Thareja, Keyvan Kashefizadeh, Xikun Wang, Anchuan Wang, Sanjay Natarajan +1 more 2022-10-04 $41,370,000
11370669 Amorphous silicon doped yttrium oxide films and methods of formation Tatsuya Sato, Li-Qun Xia 2022-06-28 $26,475,000
11004687 Gate contact over active processes Gaurav Thareja, Keyvan Kashefizadeh, Xikun Wang, Anchuan Wang, Sanjay Natarajan +1 more 2021-05-11 $77,987,000
10181535 Backplane reinforcement and interconnects for solar cells Mehrdad M. Moslehi, David Xuan-Qi Wang, Karl-Josef Kramer, Sam Tone Tor, Anthony Calcaterra 2019-01-15
9929054 Systems and methods for laser splitting and device layer transfer Takao Yonehara, Virendra V. Rana, Mehrdad M. Moslehi, Subramanian Tamilmani 2018-03-27
9892941 Multi-zone resistive heater Anqing Cui, Binh Tran, Alexander Tam, Jacob Smith, R. Suryanarayanan Iyer +1 more 2018-02-13 $51,254,000
9842949 High-efficiency solar photovoltaic cells and modules using thin crystalline semiconductor absorbers Mehrdad M. Moslehi, Pawan Kapur, K.-Josef Kramer, Virendra V. Rana, Anand Deshpande +8 more 2017-12-12
9806220 Metal foil metallization for backplane-attached solar cells and modules Mehrdad M. Moslehi, Thom Stalcup, Karl-Josef Kramer, Anthony Calcaterra, Virendra V. Rana +2 more 2017-10-31
9799522 Aluminum oxide passivation and damage removal for solar cells Pawan Kapur, Anand Deshpande, Heather Deshazer, Virendra V. Rana, Solene Coutant +2 more 2017-10-24
9768343 Damage free laser patterning of transparent layers for forming doped regions on a solar cell substrate Virendra V. Rana, Pawan Kapur, Mehrdad M. Moslehi 2017-09-19
9502521 Multi-layer charge trap silicon nitride/oxynitride layer engineering with interface region control Udayan Ganguly, Christopher S. Olsen, Lucien Date 2016-11-22 $14,203,000
9379258 Fabrication methods for monolithically isled back contact back junction solar cells Pawan Kapur, Anand Deshpande, Virendra V. Rana, Mehrdad M. Moslehi 2016-06-28
9337374 High productivity spray processing for the metallization of semiconductor workpieces Karl-Josef Kramer, Jay Ashjaee, Mehrdad M. Moslehi, Anthony Calcaterra, David Dutton +2 more 2016-05-10
9312154 CVD apparatus for improved film thickness non-uniformity and particle performance Binh Tran, Anqing Cui, Bernard L. Hwang, Son T. Nguyen, Anh N. Nguyen +1 more 2016-04-12 $12,337,000
9214353 Systems and methods for laser splitting and device layer transfer Takao Yonehara, Virenda V. Rana, Mehrdad M. Moslehi, Subramanian Tamilmani 2015-12-15
9196759 High-efficiency photovoltaic back-contact solar cell structures and manufacturing methods Mehrdad M. Moslehi, Pawan Kapur, Karl-Josef Kramer, David Xuan-Qi Wang, Virendra V. Rana +2 more 2015-11-24
9012334 Formation of a tantalum-nitride layer Michael Yang, Ming Xi 2015-04-21 $14,570,000
8962380 High-efficiency photovoltaic back-contact solar cell structures and manufacturing methods using thin planar semiconductor absorbers Mehrdad M. Moslehi, Pawan Kapur, Karl-Josef Kramer, David Xuan-Qi Wang, Virenda V. Rana +2 more 2015-02-24
8946547 Backplane reinforcement and interconnects for solar cells Mehrdad M. Moslehi, David Xuan-Qi Wang, Karl-Josef Kramer, Sam Tone Tor, Anthony Calcaterra 2015-02-03
8114789 Formation of a tantalum-nitride layer Michael Yang, Ming Xi 2012-02-14 $12,695,000
7922863 Apparatus for integrated gas and radiation delivery Martin John Ripley 2011-04-12 $6,345,000
7846793 Plasma surface treatment for SI and metal nanocrystal nucleation Christopher S. Olsen, Ming Li, Phillip Kraus 2010-12-07 $3,240,000
7781326 Formation of a tantalum-nitride layer Michael Yang, Ming Xi 2010-08-24 $4,612,000