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Tomohiko Kitajima — 30 Patents

Applied Materials: 30 patents #374 of 7,310Top 6%
San Jose, CA: #2,039 of 32,062 inventorsTop 7%
California: #17,345 of 386,348 inventorsTop 5%
Overall (All Time): #121,623 of 4,157,543Top 3%
30 Patents All Time
Tomohiko Kitajima has been granted 30 US patents while listed as an inventor at Applied Materials. The first was granted in 2006 and the most recent in November 2025. Tomohiko Kitajima ranks #121,623 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.9%). Patent records list Tomohiko Kitajima in San Jose, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2006 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 7 patents in 2023.peak 72006: 1 patents20062015: 1 patents2016: 1 patents20162017: 1 patents2019: 1 patents20192020: 1 patents2021: 5 patents20212022: 3 patents2023: 7 patents20232024: 3 patents2025: 6 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 30 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12482749 L-type wordline connection structure for three-dimensional memory Chang-Min Kang, Gill Yong Lee, Fred Fishburn, Sung-kee Kang, Sony Varghese 2025-11-25
12477723 Three dimensional memory device and method of fabrication Chang-Min Kang, Fred Fishburn, Sung-kee Kang, Sony Varghese, Gill Yong Lee 2025-11-18
12464716 NAND cell structure with charge trap cut Chang-Min Kang, Gill Yong Lee, Balasubramanian Pranatharthiharan, Mukund Srinivasan 2025-11-04
12444615 Forming a doped hardmask Scott Falk, Rajesh Prasad, Sarah Michelle Bobek, Harry Whitesell, Kurt Decker-Lucke +2 more 2025-10-14
12408370 Structure and fabrication method of high voltage MOSFET with a vertical drift region Changseok Kang, Gill Yong Lee 2025-09-02
12310014 Selection gate separation for 3D NAND Chang-Seok Kang 2025-05-20
12148475 Selection gate separation for 3D NAND Chang-Seok Kang, Gill Yong Lee, Qian Fu, Sung-Kwan Kang, Takehito Koshizawa +1 more 2024-11-19 $80,955,000
12142475 Sequential plasma and thermal treatment Ning Li, Shuaidi Zhang, Mihaela Balseanu, Qi Gao, Rajesh Prasad +3 more 2024-11-12 $39,712,000
11930637 Confined charge trap layer Chang-Seok Kang, Mihaela Balseanu 2024-03-12 $97,620,000
11818877 Three-dimensional dynamic random access memory (DRAM) and methods of forming the same Chang-Seok Kang, Sung-Kwan Kang, Fredrick Fishburn, Gill Yong Lee, Nitin K. Ingle 2023-11-14 $33,075,000
11749315 3D DRAM structure with high mobility channel Chang-Seok Kang, Gill Yong Lee, Sanjay Natarajan, Sung-Kwan Kang, Lequn Liu 2023-09-05 $42,922,000
11594537 3-d dram cell with mechanical stability Chang-Seok Kang 2023-02-28 $49,197,000
11587930 3-D DRAM structures and methods of manufacture Chang-Seok Kang, Nitin K. Ingle, Sung-Kwan Kang 2023-02-21 $24,540,000
11587796 3D-NAND memory cell structure Chang-Seok Kang, Sung-Kwan Kang 2023-02-21 $24,540,000
11574924 Memory cell fabrication for 3D NAND applications Changseok Kang 2023-02-07 $44,390,000
11545504 Methods and apparatus for three dimensional NAND structure fabrication Takehito Koshizawa, Mukund Srinivasan, Chang-Seok Kang, Sung-Kwan Kang, Gill Yong Lee +1 more 2023-01-03 $39,123,000
11515170 3D NAND etch Shishi Jiang, Pramit Manna, Bo Qi, Abhijit Basu Mallick, Rui Cheng +2 more 2022-11-29 $23,914,000
11430801 Methods and apparatus for three dimensional NAND structure fabrication Takehito Koshizawa, Mukund Srinivasan, Chang-Seok Kang, Sung-Kwan Kang, Gill Yong Lee +1 more 2022-08-30 $41,861,000
11295786 3D dram structure with high mobility channel Chang-Seok Kang, Gill Yong Lee, Sanjay Natarajan, Sung-Kwan Kang, Lequn Liu 2022-04-05 $91,536,000
11189635 3D-NAND mold Chang-Seok Kang, Mukund Srinivasan, Sanjay Natarajan 2021-11-30 $50,552,000
11158650 Memory cell fabrication for 3D nand applications Changseok Kang 2021-10-26 $68,163,000
10998329 Methods and apparatus for three dimensional NAND structure fabrication Takehito Koshizawa, Mukund Srinivasan, Chang-Seok Kang, Sung-Kwan Kang, Gill Yong Lee +1 more 2021-05-04 $101,757,000
10964717 Methods and apparatus for three-dimensional NAND structure fabrication Sung-Kwan Kang, Gill Yong Lee, Chang-Seok Kang 2021-03-30 $120,425,000
10886140 3D NAND etch Shishi Jiang, Pramit Manna, Bo Qi, Abhijit Basu Mallick, Rui Cheng +2 more 2021-01-05 $38,335,000
10651098 Polishing with measurement prior to deposition of outer layer Jeffrey Drue David, Jun Qian, Taketo Sekine, Garlen C. Leung, Sidney P. Huey 2020-05-12 $50,210,000