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Thomas Graves — 8 Patents

Applied Materials: 4 patents #2,532 of 7,310Top 35%
NASA: 3 patents #644 of 3,881Top 20%
OEOea: 1 patents #7 of 21Top 35%
Houston, TX: #2,918 of 21,073 inventorsTop 15%
Texas: #19,067 of 125,132 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #600,572 of 4,157,543Top 15%
8 Patents All Time
Thomas Graves has been granted 8 US patents while listed as an inventor at Applied Materials. The first was granted in 1989 and the most recent in October 2014. Thomas Graves ranks #600,572 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 14.4%). Patent records list Thomas Graves in Houston, TX, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1989 to 2014Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 1989.peak 21989: 2 patents19891991: 1 patents19911995: 1 patents19952012: 1 patents20122013: 1 patents20132014: 2 patents2014

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–8 of 8 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8871312 Method of reducing plasma arcing on surfaces of semiconductor processing apparatus components in a plasma processing chamber Jennifer Y. Sun, Kenneth S. Collins, Ren-Guan Duan, Senh Thach, Xiaoming He +1 more 2014-10-28 $11,517,000
8758858 Method of producing a plasma-resistant thermal oxide coating Jennifer Y. Sun, Li Xu, Kenneth S. Collins, Ren-Guan Duan, Senh Thach 2014-06-24 $13,917,000
8367227 Plasma-resistant ceramics with controlled electrical resistivity Jennifer Y. Sun, Kenneth S. Collins, Ren-Guan Duan, Senh Thach, Xiaoming He +1 more 2013-02-05 $10,826,000
8129029 Erosion-resistant plasma chamber components comprising a metal base structure with an overlying thermal oxidation coating Jennifer Y. Sun, Li Xu, Kenneth S. Collins, Ren-Guan Duan, Senh Thach 2012-03-06 $9,163,000
5404263 All-glass header assembly used in an inflator system James A. Longwell 1995-04-04 $2,577,000
5046395 Two fault tolerant toggle-hook release Christopher W. Brown 1991-09-10
4836081 Toggle release Robert Yang, Christopher W. Brown 1989-06-06
4829235 Four-terminal connector for measuring resistance of a pyrotechnic initiator Robert Robinson, William Chris Hoffman 1989-05-09