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Wayne MCMILLAN — 23 Patents

Applied Materials: 21 patents #616 of 7,310Top 9%
Kla-Tencor: 2 patents #952 of 2,049Top 50%
San Jose, CA: #2,796 of 32,062 inventorsTop 9%
California: #24,547 of 386,348 inventorsTop 7%
Overall (All Time): #178,160 of 4,157,543Top 5%
23 Patents All Time
Wayne MCMILLAN has been granted 23 US patents while listed as an inventor at Applied Materials. The first was granted in 2006 and the most recent in December 2024. Wayne MCMILLAN ranks #178,160 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.3%). Patent records list Wayne MCMILLAN in San Jose, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2006 to 2024Bar chart with a peak of 6 patents in 2023.peak 62006: 1 patents20062009: 1 patents20092019: 1 patents20192020: 4 patents20202021: 3 patents20212022: 4 patents20222023: 6 patents20232024: 3 patents2024

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–23 of 23 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12181736 Nanostructures for optical devices Tapashree Roy, Rutger Meyer Timmerman Thijssen 2024-12-31 $49,330,000
12084761 Multi-depth film for optical devices Karl J. Armstrong, Ludovic Godet, Brian Alexander Cohen, James D. Strassner, Benjamin B. Riordon 2024-09-10 $81,152,000
12050327 Imaging system and method of manufacturing a metalens array Jinxin FU, Tapashree Roy, Ludovic Godet, Robert Jan Visser 2024-07-30 $79,851,000
11733533 Fabrication of diffraction gratings Ludovic Godet, Rutger Meyer Timmerman Thijssen 2023-08-22 $40,609,000
11662516 Method of direct etching fabrication of waveguide combiners Michael Y. Young, Rutger Meyer Timmerman Thijssen, Robert Jan Visser 2023-05-30 $32,229,000
11626321 Multi stack optical elements using temporary and permanent bonding Ludovic Godet, Rutger Meyer Timmerman Thijssen, Naamah ARGAMAN, Tapashree Roy, Sage Toko Garrett DOSHAY 2023-04-11 $32,726,000
11614685 Patterning of multi-depth optical devices Ludovic Godet, Chien-An Chen, Brian Alexander Cohen, Ian McMackin 2023-03-28 $69,791,000
11608558 Multi-depth film for optical devices Karl J. Armstrong, Ludovic Godet, Brian Alexander Cohen, James D. Strassner, Benjamin B. Riordon 2023-03-21 $36,722,000
11557987 Handling and processing double-sided devices on fragile substrates Visweswaren Sivaramakrishnan, Joseph C. Olson, Ludovic Godet, Rutger Meyer Timmerman Thijssen, Naamah ARGAMAN 2023-01-17 $39,427,000
11487139 Nanostructures for optical devices Tapashree Roy, Rutger Meyer Timmerman Thijssen 2022-11-01 $32,150,000
11333896 Fabrication of diffraction gratings Ludovic Godet, Rutger Meyer Timmerman Thijssen 2022-05-17 $39,228,000
11327218 Method of direct etching fabrication of waveguide combiners Michael Y. Young, Rutger Meyer Timmerman Thijssen, Robert Jan Visser 2022-05-10 $45,778,000
11226556 Patterning of multi-depth optical devices Ludovic Godet, Chien-An Chen, Brian Alexander Cohen, Ian McMackin 2022-01-18 $96,816,000
11205978 Handling and processing double-sided devices on fragile substrates Visweswaren Sivaramakrishnan, Joseph C. Olson, Ludovic Godet, Rutger Meyer Timmerman Thijssen, Naamah ARGAMAN 2021-12-21 $167,553,000
11187836 Method of building a 3D functional optical material layer stacking structure Michael Y. Young, Ludovic Godet, Robert Jan Visser, Naamah ARGAMAN, Christopher Dennis Bencher 2021-11-30 $50,552,000
10955606 Method of imprinting tilt angle light gratings Michael Y. Young, Ludovic Godet, Robert Jan Visser 2021-03-23 $48,969,000
10705268 Gap fill of imprinted structure with spin coated high refractive index material for optical components Jinxin FU, Ludovic Godet 2020-07-07 $29,619,000
10707118 Multi stack optical elements using temporary and permanent bonding Ludovic Godet, Rutger Meyer Timmerman Thijssen, Naamah ARGAMAN, Tapashree Roy, Sage Toko Garrett DOSHAY 2020-07-07 $29,619,000
10636825 Shaped color filter Joseph R. Johnson, Robert Jan Visser, Rutger Meyer Timmerman Thijssen 2020-04-28 $15,875,000
10564332 Controlling grating outcoupling strength for AR waveguide combiners Rutger Meyer Timmerman Thijssen 2020-02-18 $26,722,000
10409001 Waveguide fabrication with sacrificial sidewall spacers Michael Y. Young, Rutger Meyer Timmerman Thijssen, Robert Jan Visser 2019-09-10 $15,043,000
7548308 Illumination energy management in surface inspection Christian Wolters 2009-06-16 $43,741,000
7130036 Methods and systems for inspection of an entire wafer surface using multiple detection channels Lionel Kuhlmann 2006-10-31 $15,704,000