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Vincent E. Burkhart — 36 Patents

Applied Materials: 26 patents #462 of 7,310Top 7%
Lam Research: 8 patents #367 of 2,128Top 20%
NSNovellus Systems: 2 patents #345 of 780Top 45%
Cupertino, CA: #421 of 6,989 inventorsTop 7%
California: #13,468 of 386,348 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #92,222 of 4,157,543Top 3%
36 Patents All Time
Vincent E. Burkhart has been granted 36 US patents while listed as an inventor at Applied Materials. The first was granted in 1997 and the most recent in March 2025. Vincent E. Burkhart ranks #92,222 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.2%). Patent records list Vincent E. Burkhart in Cupertino, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1997 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 1999.peak 51997: 1 patents19971998: 3 patents1999: 5 patents19992000: 4 patents2001: 2 patents20012002: 3 patents2005: 3 patents20052006: 3 patents2010: 1 patents20102014: 1 patents2016: 2 patents20162020: 1 patents2021: 2 patents20212022: 1 patents2023: 1 patents20232024: 1 patents2025: 2 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 36 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12243725 High temperature RF connection with integral thermal choke Timothy Scott Thomas, Joel Hollingsworth, David French, Damien Slevin 2025-03-04
12217939 RF tuning systems including tuning circuits having impedances for setting and adjusting parameters of electrodes in electrostatic chucks David French, Karl Leeser, Liang Meng 2025-02-04
11990360 Electrostatic chuck (ESC) pedestal voltage isolation Miguel Benjamin Vasquez 2024-05-21 $220,329,000
11835868 Protective coating for electrostatic chucks Stephen Topping 2023-12-05 $84,518,000
11232966 Electrostatic chucking pedestal with substrate backside purging and thermal sinking Timothy Scott Thomas, Patrick Breiling, Ramesh Chandrasekharan 2022-01-25 $320,568,000
11183368 RF tuning systems including tuning circuits having impedances for setting and adjusting parameters of electrodes in electrostatic chucks David French, Karl Leeser, Liang Meng 2021-11-23 $127,641,000
11086233 Protective coating for electrostatic chucks Stephen Topping 2021-08-10 $172,238,000
10832936 Substrate support with increasing areal density and corresponding method of fabricating Peter J. Woytowitz, Michael Rumer, Karl Leeser 2020-11-10 $83,083,000
9447499 Dual plenum, axi-symmetric showerhead with edge-to-center gas delivery Shambhu N. Roy, Natan Solomon, Sanjay Gopinath, Kaihan Ashtiani, Bart van Schravendijk +3 more 2016-09-20
9337067 High temperature electrostatic chuck with radial thermal chokes Shambhu N. Roy, Scott Fields 2016-05-10
8685215 Mechanism for continuously varying radial position of a magnetron Keith A. Miller, Anantha K. Subramani, Maurice E. Ewert, Tza-Jing Gung, Hong Yang 2014-04-01 $41,394,000
7736473 Magnetron having continuously variable radial position Keith A. Miller, Anantha K. Subramani, Maurice E. Ewert, Tza-Jing Gung, Hong Yang 2010-06-15 $8,018,000
7138039 Liquid isolation of contact rings Harald Herchen, Joseph Yahalom 2006-11-21 $24,429,000
7067045 Method and apparatus for sealing electrical contacts during an electrochemical deposition process Arthur Keigler, Harald Herchen, Son Trinh 2006-06-27 $13,196,000
7018515 Selectable dual position magnetron Tza-Jing Gung, Hong Yang, Anantha K. Subramani, Maurice E. Ewert, Keith A. Miller 2006-03-28 $21,502,000
6869516 Method for removing electrolyte from electrical contacts and wafer touching areas Dmitry Lubomirsky, Michael Yang, Girish Dixit, Allen L. D'Ambra, Yeuk-Fai Edwin Mok +1 more 2005-03-22 $21,686,000
6855235 Anode impedance control through electrolyte flow control Harald Herchen, Craig Brodeur, Quinwei Wu, Peter Kimball 2005-02-15 $24,638,000
6843897 Anode slime reduction method while maintaining low current Harald Herchen 2005-01-18 $25,041,000
6488820 Method and apparatus for reducing migration of conductive material on a component 2002-12-03 $24,582,000
6469283 Method and apparatus for reducing thermal gradients within a substrate support Steven V. Sansoni, Michael Sugarman, Anthony Chih-Tung Chan 2002-10-22 $32,970,000
6377060 Method and apparatus for wafer detection Deepak Manaoharlal 2002-04-23 $30,581,000
6303879 Laminated ceramic with multilayer electrodes and method of fabrication 2001-10-16 $34,819,000
6291777 Conductive feed-through for creating a surface electrode connection within a dielectric body and method of fabricating same Michael Sugarman 2001-09-18 $35,381,000
6075375 Apparatus for wafer detection Deepak Manaoharlal 2000-06-13 $124,024,000
D425919 Electrostatic chuck with improved spacing mask and workpiece detection device Allen Flanigan, Steven V. Sansoni 2000-05-30