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Thomas H. Osterheld — 70 Patents

Applied Materials: 70 patents #93 of 7,310Top 2%
Mountain View, CA: #122 of 11,022 inventorsTop 2%
California: #4,486 of 386,348 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #29,186 of 4,157,543Top 1%
70 Patents All Time
Thomas H. Osterheld has been granted 70 US patents while listed as an inventor at Applied Materials. The first was granted in 1999 and the most recent in December 2025. Thomas H. Osterheld ranks #29,186 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.70%). Patent records list Thomas H. Osterheld in Mountain View, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1999 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 7 patents in 2015.peak 71999: 1 patents19992000: 1 patents2001: 6 patents2002: 2 patents20022003: 5 patents2004: 4 patents2005: 3 patents20052006: 2 patents2007: 1 patents2009: 2 patents20092010: 1 patents2011: 1 patents2012: 2 patents20122013: 5 patents2014: 1 patents2015: 7 patents20152016: 2 patents2019: 3 patents2020: 2 patents20202022: 3 patents2023: 7 patents2024: 3 patents20242025: 6 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 70 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12491603 Passive acoustic monitoring and acoustic sensors for chemical mechanical polishing Nicholas A. Wiswell, Sohrab Pourmand, Dominic J. Benvegnu, Boguslaw A. Swedek 2025-12-09
12479062 Determining substrate orientation with acoustic signals Nicholas A. Wiswell, Benjamin Cherian, Jun Qian 2025-11-25
12447579 Chemical mechanical polishing vibration measurement using optical sensor Jeong-Il Oh, Steven M. Zuniga 2025-10-21
12403560 Determining substrate precession with acoustic signals Nicholas A. Wiswell, Benjamin Cherian, Jun Qian 2025-09-02
12343840 Control of processing parameters for substrate polishing with substrate precession Eric Lau, Charles C. Garretson, Huanbo Zhang, Zhize Zhu, Benjamin Cherian +1 more 2025-07-01
12257665 Machine vision as input to a CMP process control algorithm Benjamin Cherian, Jun Qian, Nicholas A. Wiswell, Dominic J. Benvegnu, Boguslaw A. Swedek 2025-03-25
12020159 Training spectrum generation for machine learning system for spectrographic monitoring Benjamin Cherian, Nicholas A. Wiswell, Jun Qian 2024-06-25 $57,214,000
11931860 Consumable part monitoring in chemical mechanical polisher Dominic J. Benvegnu 2024-03-19 $54,086,000
11931853 Control of processing parameters for substrate polishing with angularly distributed zones using cost function Eric Lau, Charles C. Garretson, Huanbo Zhang, Zhize Zhu, Benjamin Cherian +1 more 2024-03-19 $54,086,000
11780046 Polishing system with annular platen or polishing pad Paul D. Butterfield, Jeonghoon Oh, Shou-Sung Chang, Steven M. Zuniga, Fred C. Redeker 2023-10-10 $39,034,000
11731238 Monitoring of polishing pad texture in chemical mechanical polishing Benjamin Cherian 2023-08-22 $40,609,000
11701749 Monitoring of vibrations during chemical mechanical polishing Boguslaw A. Swedek, Dominic J. Benvegnu, Chih Chung Chou, Nicholas A. Wiswell, Jeonghoon Oh 2023-07-18 $58,990,000
11699595 Imaging for monitoring thickness in a substrate cleaning system Dominic J. Benvegnu, Jun Qian, Boguslaw A. Swedek 2023-07-11 $39,838,000
11651207 Training spectrum generation for machine learning system for spectrographic monitoring Benjamin Cherian, Nicholas A. Wiswell, Jun Qian 2023-05-16 $64,199,000
11577356 Machine vision as input to a CMP process control algorithm Benjamin Cherian, Jun Qian, Nicholas A. Wiswell, Dominic J. Benvegnu, Boguslaw A. Swedek 2023-02-14 $35,617,000
11571786 Consumable part monitoring in chemical mechanical polisher Dominic J. Benvegnu 2023-02-07 $44,390,000
11511388 Polishing system with support post and annular platen or polishing pad Paul D. Butterfield, Jeonghoon Oh, Shou-Sung Chang, Steven M. Zuniga, Fred C. Redeker 2022-11-29 $23,914,000
11507824 Training spectrum generation for machine learning system for spectrographic monitoring Benjamin Cherian, Nicholas A. Wiswell, Jun Qian 2022-11-22 $48,755,000
11453097 Chemical mechanical polishing apparatus and methods Rajeev Bajaj, Hung Chih Chen, Terrance Y. Lee 2022-09-27 $38,581,000
10589399 Textured small pad for chemical mechanical polishing Jeonghoon Oh, Edwin C. Suarez, Jason Garcheung Fung, Eric Lau, King Yi Heung +3 more 2020-03-17 $17,260,000
10562147 Polishing system with annular platen or polishing pad for substrate monitoring Paul D. Butterfield, Jeonghoon Oh, Shou-Sung Chang, Steven M. Zuniga, Fred C. Redeker 2020-02-18 $26,722,000
10500694 Chemical mechanical polishing apparatus and methods Rajeev Bajaj, Hung Chih Chen, Terrance Y. Lee 2019-12-10 $14,920,000
10478937 Acoustic emission monitoring and endpoint for chemical mechanical polishing Jianshe Tang, David Masayuki Ishikawa, Benjamin Cherian, Jeonghoon Oh 2019-11-19 $24,323,000
10256111 Chemical mechanical polishing automated recipe generation Eric Lau, King Yi Heung, Charles C. Garretson, Jun Qian, Shuchivrat Datar +1 more 2019-04-09 $19,096,000
9242337 Dynamic residue clearing control with in-situ profile control (ISPC) Jun Qian, Sivakumar Dhandapani, Benjamin Cherian, Charles C. Garretson 2016-01-26 $7,094,000