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Thomas Kring — 4 Patents

ITItron: 2 patents #128 of 309Top 45%
Applied Materials: 2 patents #3,681 of 7,310Top 55%
Concord, CA: #196 of 739 inventorsTop 30%
California: #126,026 of 386,348 inventorsTop 35%
Overall (All Time): #1,080,739 of 4,157,543Top 30%
4 Patents All Time
Thomas Kring has been granted 4 US patents while listed as an inventor at Applied Materials. The first was granted in 2001 and the most recent in July 2025. Thomas Kring ranks #1,080,739 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 26.0%). Patent records list Thomas Kring in Concord, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2001 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 1 patents in 2001.peak 12001: 1 patents20012008: 1 patents20082023: 1 patents20232025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–4 of 4 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12353391 Actor-based data processing Wayne Creasey 2025-07-08
11669508 Actor-based data processing Wayne Creasey 2023-06-06 $31,973,000
7354501 Upper chamber for high density plasma CVD Sudhir Gondhalekar, Tom K. Cho, Rolf Guenther, Steve Kim, Mehrdad Moshfegh +2 more 2008-04-08 $17,034,000
6192829 Antenna coil assemblies for substrate processing chambers Michael P. Karazim, Tetsuya Ishikawa, Rudolf Gujer, Pavel Staryuk, Abhi Desai +2 more 2001-02-27 $52,416,000