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Thomas Knisley — 46 Patents

Applied Materials: 34 patents #313 of 7,310Top 5%
Lam Research: 7 patents #416 of 2,128Top 20%
WUWayne State University: 5 patents #49 of 622Top 8%
Livonia, MI: #17 of 1,586 inventorsTop 2%
Michigan: #1,069 of 86,293 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #62,001 of 4,157,543Top 2%
46 Patents All Time
Thomas Knisley has been granted 46 US patents while listed as an inventor at Applied Materials. The first was granted in 2015 and the most recent in October 2025. Thomas Knisley ranks #62,001 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.5%). Patent records list Thomas Knisley in Livonia, MI, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2015 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 11 patents in 2022.peak 112015: 2 patents20152016: 1 patents2017: 2 patents20172018: 3 patents2019: 2 patents20192020: 5 patents2021: 2 patents20212022: 11 patents2023: 7 patents20232024: 7 patents2025: 4 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 46 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12438050 Electronic device fabrication using area-selective deposition Zachary J. Devereaux, Bhaskar Jyoti Bhuyan, Zeqing Shen, Susmit Singha Roy, Mark Saly +1 more 2025-10-07
12435411 Metal organonitrile precursors for thin film deposition Bhaskar Jyoti Bhuyan, Mark Saly, Shalini Tripathi, Charles H. Winter, Zachary J. Devereaux 2025-10-07
12300491 Deposition of semiconductor integration films Lakmal C. Kalutarage, Mark Saly, Bhaskar Jyoti Bhuyan, Kelvin Chan, Regina Freed +3 more 2025-05-13
12291779 Methods of selective atomic layer deposition Bhaskar Jyoti Bhuyan, Mark Saly, David Thompson, Tobin Kaufman-Osborn, Kurt Fredrickson +1 more 2025-05-06
12131900 Methods for depositing blocking layers on metal surfaces Bhaskar Jyoti Bhuyan, Mark Saly, Lakmal C. Kalutarage 2024-10-29 $69,228,000
12084464 Rhenium complexes and methods of use Keenan N. Woods, Mark Saly, Charles H. Winter, Stefan Cwik 2024-09-10 $81,152,000
12040427 Preclean and encapsulation of microLED features Bhaskar Jyoti Bhuyan, Mark Saly, Mingwei Zhu 2024-07-16 $116,305,000
12031209 Reducing agents for atomic layer deposition Bhaskar Jyoti Bhuyan, Mark Saly, Lakmal C. Kalutarage 2024-07-09 $62,454,000
11970777 Deposition of low-k films Shuaidi Zhang, Ning Li, Mihaela Balseanu, Bhaskar Jyoti Bhuyan, Mark Saly 2024-04-30 $79,776,000
11886120 Deposition of semiconductor integration films Lakmal C. Kalutarage, Mark Saly, Bhaskar Jyoti Bhuyan, Kelvin Chan, Regina Freed +3 more 2024-01-30 $39,141,000
11866824 Homoleptic lanthanide deposition precursors Mark Saly 2024-01-09 $49,156,000
11821085 Methods of selective atomic layer deposition Bhaskar Jyoti Bhuyan, Mark Saly, David Thompson, Tobin Kaufman-Osborn, Kurt Fredrickson +1 more 2023-11-21 $39,416,000
11823893 Methods of depositing SiCON with C, O, and N compositional control Mark Saly, David Thompson, Bhaskar Jyoti Bhuyan 2023-11-21 $39,416,000
11732353 Methods of protecting aerospace components against corrosion and oxidation Sukti Chatterjee, Lance A. Scudder, Yuriy Melnik, David Alexander BRITZ, Kenichi Ohno +1 more 2023-08-22 $40,609,000
11697879 Methods for depositing sacrificial coatings on aerospace components Sukti Chatterjee, Kenichi Ohno, Lance A. Scudder, Yuriy Melnik, David Alexander BRITZ +3 more 2023-07-11 $39,838,000
11603767 Methods of protecting metallic components against corrosion using chromium-containing thin films Mark Saly, David Alexander BRITZ, David Thompson 2023-03-14 $86,512,000
11560804 Methods for depositing coatings on aerospace components Yuriy Melnik, Sukti Chatterjee, Kaushal Gangakhedkar, Jonathan Frankel, Lance A. Scudder +4 more 2023-01-24 $45,726,000
11562904 Deposition of semiconductor integration films Lakmal C. Kalutarage, Mark Saly, Bhaskar Jyoti Bhuyan, Kelvin Chan, Regina Freed +3 more 2023-01-24 $45,726,000
11532474 Deposition of rhenium-containing thin films Keenan N. Woods, Mark Saly, Charles H. Winter, Stefan Cwik 2022-12-20 $39,023,000
11473198 Homoleptic lanthanide deposition precursors Mark Saly 2022-10-18 $26,737,000
11466364 Methods for forming protective coatings containing crystallized aluminum oxide Kenichi Ohno, Eric Liu, Sukti Chatterjee, Yuriy Melnik, David Alexander BRITZ +2 more 2022-10-11 $43,708,000
11447865 Deposition of low-κ films Shuaidi Zhang, Ning Li, Mihaela Balseanu, Bhaskar Jyoti Bhuyan, Mark Saly 2022-09-20 $25,949,000
11417515 Methods for depositing blocking layers on metal surfaces Bhaskar Jyoti Bhuyan, Mark Saly, Lakmal C. Kalutarage 2022-08-16 $38,686,000
11408068 Deposition of tellurium-containing thin films Keenan N. Woods, Mark Saly, Charles H. Winter, Apoorva Upadhyay 2022-08-09 $67,965,000
11384648 Methods for depositing coatings on aerospace components Yuriy Melnik, Sukti Chatterjee, Kaushal Gangakhedkar, Jonathan Frankel, Lance A. Scudder +4 more 2022-07-12 $30,931,000