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Thomas Nowak — 56 Patents

Applied Materials: 53 patents #145 of 7,310Top 2%
UNUnknown: 2 patents #12,644 of 83,584Top 20%
Cupertino, CA: #233 of 6,989 inventorsTop 4%
California: #6,620 of 386,348 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #44,020 of 4,157,543Top 2%
56 Patents All Time
Thomas Nowak has been granted 56 US patents while listed as an inventor at Applied Materials. The first was granted in 1989 and the most recent in February 2024. Thomas Nowak ranks #44,020 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.1%). Patent records list Thomas Nowak in Cupertino, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1989 to 2024Bar chart with a peak of 8 patents in 2012.peak 81989: 1 patents19891990: 1 patents2000: 1 patents2001: 1 patents20012002: 1 patents2005: 3 patents2008: 1 patents20082009: 5 patents2010: 5 patents2011: 2 patents20112012: 8 patents2013: 5 patents2014: 4 patents20142015: 2 patents2016: 3 patents2017: 1 patents20172018: 4 patents2019: 2 patents2020: 3 patents20202021: 1 patents2023: 1 patents2024: 1 patents2024

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 56 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11898249 PECVD process Nagarajan Rajagopalan, Xinhai Han, Michael Wenyoung Tsiang, Masaki Ogata, Zhijun Jiang +17 more 2024-02-13 $47,589,000
11613812 PECVD process Nagarajan Rajagopalan, Xinhai Han, Michael Wenyoung Tsiang, Masaki Ogata, Zhijun Jiang +17 more 2023-03-28 $69,791,000
11133210 Dual temperature heater Dale R. Du Bois, Juan Carlos Rocha-Alvarez, Sanjeev Baluja, Ganesh Balasubramanian, Lipyeow Yap +1 more 2021-09-28 $64,178,000
10793954 PECVD process Nagarajan Rajagopalan, Xinhai Han, Michael Wenyoung Tsiang, Masaki Ogata, Zhijun Jiang +17 more 2020-10-06 $62,697,000
10774423 Tunable ground planes in plasma chambers Karthik Janakiraman, Juan Carlos Rocha-Alvarez, Mark Fodor, Dale R. Du Bois, Amit Kumar BANSAL +4 more 2020-09-15 $35,161,000
10570517 Apparatus and method for UV treatment, chemical treatment, and deposition Amit Kumar BANSAL, Dale R. Du Bois, Juan Carlos Rocha-Alvarez, Sanjeev Baluja, Scott A. Hendrickson 2020-02-25 $22,337,000
10522375 Monitoring system for deposition and method of operation thereof Edward W. Budiarto, Majeed A. Foad, Ralf Hofmann, Todd Egan, Mehdi Vaez-Iravani 2019-12-31 $41,069,000
10325799 Dual temperature heater Dale R. Du Bois, Juan Carlos Rocha-Alvarez, Sanjeev Baluja, Ganesh Balasubramanian, Lipyeow Yap +1 more 2019-06-18 $21,126,000
10094486 Method and system for supplying a cleaning gas into a process chamber Ramprakash Sankarakrishnan, Dale R. Du Bois, Ganesh Balasubramanian, Karthik Janakiraman, Juan Carlos Rocha-Alvarez +2 more 2018-10-09 $16,738,000
10060032 PECVD process Nagarajan Rajagopalan, Xinhai Han, Michael Wenyoung Tsiang, Masaki Ogata, Zhijun Jiang +17 more 2018-08-28 $23,630,000
10030306 PECVD apparatus and process Nagarajan Rajagopalan, Xinhai Han, Michael Wenyoung Tsiang, Masaki Ogata, Zhijun Jiang +17 more 2018-07-24 $37,876,000
9870935 Monitoring system for deposition and method of operation thereof Edward W. Budiarto, Majeed A. Foad, Ralf Hofmann, Todd Egan, Mehdi Vaez-Iravani 2018-01-16 $25,242,000
9816187 PECVD process Nagarajan Rajagopalan, Xinhai Han, Michael Wenyoung Tsiang, Masaki Ogata, Zhijun Jiang +17 more 2017-11-14 $27,960,000
9506145 Method and hardware for cleaning UV chambers Sanjeev Baluja, Alexandros T. Demos, Kelvin Chan, Juan Carlos Rocha-Alvarez, Scott A. Hendrickson +6 more 2016-11-29 $13,456,000
9458537 PECVD process Nagarajan Rajagopalan, Xinhai Han, Michael Wenyoung Tsiang, Masaki Ogata, Zhijun Jiang +17 more 2016-10-04 $14,162,000
9364871 Method and hardware for cleaning UV chambers Sanjeev Baluja, Alexandros T. Demos, Kelvin Chan, Juan Carlos Rocha-Alvarez, Scott A. Hendrickson +6 more 2016-06-14 $14,652,000
9206511 Method and system for supplying a cleaning gas into a process chamber Ramprakash Sankarakrishnan, Dale R. Du Bois, Ganesh Balasubramanian, Karthik Janakiraman, Juan Carlos Rocha-Alvarez +2 more 2015-12-08 $11,073,000
9157730 PECVD process Nagarajan Rajagopalan, Xinhai Han, Michael Wenyoung Tsiang, Masaki Ogata, Zhijun Jiang +17 more 2015-10-13 $9,629,000
8911553 Quartz showerhead for nanocure UV chamber Sanjeev Baluja, Juan Carlos Rocha-Alvarez, Alexandros T. Demos, Jianhua Zhou 2014-12-16 $14,131,000
8778813 Confined process volume PECVD chamber Ramprakash Sankarakrishnan, Ganesh Balasubramanian, Juan Carlos Rocha-Alvarez, Dale R. Du Bois, Mark Fodor +6 more 2014-07-15 $20,143,000
8702870 Superimposition of rapid periodic and extensive post multiple substrate UV-ozone clean sequences for high throughput and stable substrate to substrate performance Sang In Yi, Kelvin Chan, Alexandros T. Demos 2014-04-22 $38,526,000
8679987 Deposition of an amorphous carbon layer with high film density and high etch selectivity Patrick Reilly, Shahid Shaikh, Tersem Summan, Deenesh Padhi, Sanjeev Baluja +3 more 2014-03-25 $18,865,000
8597011 Apparatus and method for exposing a substrate to UV radiation using a reflector having both elliptical and parabolic reflective sections Andrzei Kaszuba, Juan Carlos Rocha-Alvarez, Sanjeev Baluja, Ashish Shah, Inna Shmurun 2013-12-03 $15,303,000
8591699 Method and system for supplying a cleaning gas into a process chamber Ramprakash Sankarakrishnan, Dale R. Du Bois, Ganesh Balasubramanian, Karthik Janakiraman, Juan Carlos Rocha-Alvarez +2 more 2013-11-26 $19,899,000
8563095 Silicon nitride passivation layer for covering high aspect ratio features Nagarajan Rajagopalan, Xinhai Han, Ryan Yamase, Ji Ae Park, Shamik Patel +5 more 2013-10-22 $10,239,000