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Stephen Moffatt — 86 Patents

Applied Materials: 85 patents #59 of 7,310Top 1%
Overall (All Time): #19,585 of 4,157,543Top 1%
86 Patents All Time
Stephen Moffatt has been granted 86 US patents while listed as an inventor at Applied Materials. The first was granted in 1989 and the most recent in January 2025. Stephen Moffatt ranks #19,585 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.47%). Patent records list Stephen Moffatt in Les Quennevais, NJ, JE.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1989 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 11 patents in 2018.peak 111989: 1 patents19891999: 2 patents2000: 1 patents2002: 1 patents20022003: 1 patents2004: 1 patents2005: 2 patents20052006: 2 patents2008: 1 patents2009: 1 patents20092010: 3 patents2011: 1 patents2012: 5 patents20122013: 7 patents2014: 8 patents2015: 8 patents20152016: 10 patents2017: 5 patents2018: 11 patents20182019: 3 patents2020: 1 patents2021: 2 patents20212022: 4 patents2023: 2 patents2024: 2 patents20242025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 86 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12186832 Pulse train annealing method and apparatus Joseph M. Ranish 2025-01-07
11981999 Supplemental energy for low temperature processes David K. Carlson 2024-05-14 $61,768,000
11947888 Semiconductor processing tools with improved performance by use of hybrid learning models Sheldon R. Normand, Dermot Cantwell 2024-04-02 $42,223,000
11735447 Enhanced process and hardware architecture to detect and correct realtime product substrates Kartik Santhanam, Kartik Shah, Wolfgang Aderhold, Martin A. Hilkene 2023-08-22 $40,609,000
11586794 Semiconductor processing tools with improved performance by use of hybrid learning models Sheldon R. Normand, Dermot Cantwell 2023-02-21 $24,540,000
11529592 Gas injector with baffle Vishwas Kumar Pandey, Lara Hawrylchak, Eric Kihara Shono, Kartik Shah, Christopher S. Olsen +4 more 2022-12-20 $39,023,000
11411039 Stacked pixel structure formed using epitaxy Papo CHEN, John Boland, Schubert S. Chu, Errol Antonio C. Sanchez 2022-08-09 $67,965,000
D959490 Display screen or portion thereof with graphical user interface Kartik Shah, Kartik Santhanam, Bindusagar Marath Sankarathodi, Abhilash J. Mayur, Dayal Ramachandran +2 more 2022-08-02
11348769 Plasma-enhanced anneal chamber for wafer outgassing Lara Hawrylchak, Matthew D. Scotney-Castle, Norman L. Tam, Matthew Spuller, Kong CHAN +1 more 2022-05-31 $62,587,000
11077410 Gas injector with baffle Vishwas Kumar Pandey, Lara Hawrylchak, Eric Kihara Shono, Kartik Shah, Christopher S. Olsen +4 more 2021-08-03 $89,613,000
11040415 Pulse train annealing method and apparatus Joseph M. Ranish 2021-06-22 $66,836,000
10840100 Method of thermal processing structures formed on a substrate Paul G. Carey, Aaron Muir Hunter, Dean Jennings, Abhilash J. Mayur, William Schaffer +2 more 2020-11-17 $41,112,000
10508341 Apparatus and methods for pulsed photo-excited deposition and etch 2019-12-17 $25,541,000
10370762 Apparatus and methods for photo-excitation processes 2019-08-06 $24,698,000
10181409 Thermal processing apparatus Douglas E. Holmgren, Samuel C. Howells, Edric Tong, Bruce E. Adams, Jiping Li +1 more 2019-01-15 $61,415,000
10141191 Method of thermal processing structures formed on a substrate Paul G. Carey, Aaron Muir Hunter, Dean Jennings, Abhilash J. Mayur, William Schaffer +2 more 2018-11-27 $52,277,000
10109514 Visual feedback for process control in RTP chambers Kim Vellore, Dinesh Kanawade, Aaron Miller, Leonid M. Tertitski, Norman L. Tam +2 more 2018-10-23 $19,549,000
10094618 Ambient laminar gas flow distribution in laser processing systems Aaron Muir Hunter 2018-10-09
10074538 Methods for crystallizing a substrate using a plurality of laser pulses and freeze periods Bruce E. Adams, Aaron Muir Hunter 2018-09-11 $27,448,000
10061208 Photonic activation of reactants for sub-micron feature formation using depleted beams James Francis Mack 2018-08-28 $23,630,000
9953851 Process sheet resistance uniformity improvement using multiple melt laser exposures Jiping Li, Aaron Muir Hunter, Bruce E. Adams, Kim Vellore, Samuel C. Howells 2018-04-24 $74,029,000
9927622 Multiple beam combiner for laser processing apparatus Douglas E. Holmgren, Samuel C. Howells, Edric Tong, Bruce E. Adams, Jiping Li +1 more 2018-03-27 $21,583,000
9909925 Apparatus and method to measure temperature of 3D semiconductor structures via laser diffraction Heng Pan, Matthew S. Rogers, Aaron Muir Hunter 2018-03-06 $32,877,000
9908200 Apparatus and method of improving beam shaping and beam homogenization Bruce E. Adams, Samuel C. Howells, Dean Jennings, Jiping Li, Timothy N. Thomas 2018-03-06 $32,877,000
9904069 Apparatus and method for speckle reduction in laser processing equipment 2018-02-27 $32,297,000