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Wei Liu — 64 Patents

Applied Materials: 42 patents #213 of 7,310Top 3%
IOIqm Finland Oy: 5 patents #7 of 36Top 20%
RJRutgers, The State University Of New Jersey: 3 patents #255 of 1,498Top 20%
RCRemacro Technology Co.: 2 patents #5 of 14Top 40%
NTNuvoton Technology: 1 patents #157 of 310Top 55%
ECEverdisplay Optronics (Shanghai) Co.: 1 patents #55 of 151Top 40%
NUNational Chung Cheng University: 1 patents #164 of 580Top 30%
SMShanghai Huali Microelectronics: 1 patents #84 of 202Top 45%
SUSoutheast University: 1 patents #257 of 873Top 30%
XCXi'An Zhongxing New Software Co.: 1 patents #205 of 714Top 30%
JUJiangnan University: 1 patents #442 of 1,321Top 35%
San Jose, CA: #643 of 32,062 inventorsTop 3%
California: #5,241 of 386,348 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #34,494 of 4,157,543Top 1%
64 Patents All Time
Wei Liu has been granted 64 US patents while listed as an inventor at Applied Materials. The first was granted in 2001 and the most recent in April 2025. Wei Liu ranks #34,494 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.83%). Patent records list Wei Liu in San Jose, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2001 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 7 patents in 2023.peak 72001: 2 patents20012002: 3 patents2003: 2 patents2004: 3 patents20042005: 6 patents2006: 2 patents2007: 3 patents20072008: 1 patents2009: 4 patents2010: 2 patents20102011: 2 patents2012: 1 patents2013: 3 patents20132014: 2 patents2015: 2 patents2017: 1 patents20172019: 2 patents2020: 1 patents2021: 1 patents20212022: 4 patents2023: 7 patents2024: 7 patents20242025: 3 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 64 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12266560 Film thickness uniformity improvement using edge ring and bias electrode geometry Kin Pong Lo, Vladimir Nagorny, Theresa Kramer Guarini, Bernard L. Hwang, Malcolm J. Bevan +2 more 2025-04-01
12261047 Doping techniques Wolfgang Aderhold, Yi-Chiau Huang, Benjamin Colombeau, Abhilash J. Mayur 2025-03-25
12199600 Driving circuit and circuit system thereof Cheng-Tao Li 2025-01-14
12161225 Mechanical extension apparatus for extendable seat and extendable seat Xiaohong Li, Gang Song, Yuankun Li 2024-12-10
12150388 Electroplating for vertical interconnections Máté Jenei, Kok Wai Chan, Hasnain Ahmad, Manjunath Ramachandrappa Venkatesh, Lily Yang +5 more 2024-11-19
12110589 Methods for metal oxide post-treatment Tatsuya Sato, Li-Qun Xia 2024-10-08 $69,128,000
12069882 Organic light emitting display panel and organic light emitting display apparatus Yanhu Li, Biming Wei, Huan Zheng, Liang Xu, Hsin-Chih Lin +1 more 2024-08-20
D1034491 Edge ring Kin Pong Lo, Vladimir Nagorny, Theresa Kramer Guarini, Bernard L. Hwang, Malcolm J. Bevan +2 more 2024-07-09
11927482 Methods for calibrating an optical emission spectrometer Kin Pong Lo, Lara Hawrylchak, Malcolm J. Bevan, Theresa Kramer Guarini, Bernard L. Hwang 2024-03-12 $97,620,000
11907805 Three-dimensional superconducting qubit and a method for manufacturing the same Caspar Ockeloen-Korppi, Tianyi Li, Vasilii Sevriuk, Tiina Naaranoja, Máté Jenei +4 more 2024-02-20
11849651 Superconducting device Tianyi Li, Manjunath Ramachandrappa Venkatesh, Hasnain Ahmad, Kok Wai Chan 2023-12-19
11807847 Strain of Enterobacter for degrading hyaluronic acid and application thereof Jinsong Shi, Zhenghong XU, Jinsong Gong, Hui Li, Jianying Qian +4 more 2023-11-07
11744368 Mechanical extension apparatus for reclining seat having extendable chair unit Xiaohong Li, Gang Song, Yuankun Li 2023-09-05
11621388 Method for manufacturing Josephson junctions Tianyi Li, Manjunath Ramachandrappa Venkatesh, Hasnain Ahmad, Kok Wai Chan, Kuan Yen Tan 2023-04-04
11613695 Luminescent and dispersible hybrid materials combining ionic and coordinate bonds in molecular crystals Jing Li, Kun Zhu 2023-03-28
11605586 Airbridge for making connections on superconducting chip, and method for producing superconducting chips with airbridges Kok Wai Chan, Tianyi Li, Caspar Ockeloen-Korppi 2023-03-14
11575066 N-ZnO/N-GaN/N-ZnO heterojunction-based bidirectional ultraviolet light-emitting diode and preparation method therefor Chunxiang Xu, Zengliang Shi, Zhuxin Li 2023-02-07
11518933 Precursor based method of synthesis and fabrication of hybrid lighting phosphors with high quantum efficiency, and significantly enhanced thermal and photostability Jing Li, Yang Fang 2022-12-06
11443948 Doping techniques Wolfgang Aderhold, Yi-Chiau Huang, Benjamin Colombeau, Abhilash J. Mayur 2022-09-13 $52,107,000
11437271 Seamless gap fill Yixiong Yang, Srinivas Gandikota 2022-09-06 $39,364,000
11380575 Film thickness uniformity improvement using edge ring and bias electrode geometry Kin Pong Lo, Vladimir Nagorny, Theresa Kramer Guarini, Bernard L. Hwang, Malcolm J. Bevan +2 more 2022-07-05 $35,888,000
10971357 Thin film treatment process Theresa Kramer Guarini, Linlin Wang, Malcolm J. Bevan, Johanes S. Swenberg, Vladimir Nagorny +4 more 2021-04-06 $63,491,000
10535753 Method of manufacturing a bipolar transistor with trench structure Qiaozhi Zhu 2020-01-14
10347753 Bipolar transistor with trench structure Qiaozhi Zhu 2019-07-09
10177325 Light emitting hybrid semiconductors based on IB-VII binary compounds Jing Li, Xiao-Ping Zhang, George Z. Wei 2019-01-08