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Wei Lu — 13 Patents

Applied Materials: 11 patents #1,208 of 7,310Top 20%
IBM: 2 patents #32,909 of 70,183Top 50%
Fremont, CA: #1,365 of 9,298 inventorsTop 15%
California: #47,433 of 386,348 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #362,438 of 4,157,543Top 9%
13 Patents All Time
Wei Lu has been granted 13 US patents while listed as an inventor at Applied Materials. The first was granted in 2009 and the most recent in August 2025. Wei Lu ranks #362,438 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 8.7%). Patent records list Wei Lu in Fremont, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–13 of 13 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12400881 Apparatus and method of substrate edge cleaning and substrate carrier head gap cleaning Jimin Zhang, Jianshe Tang, Brian J. Brown 2025-08-26
12285838 Wafer edge asymmetry correction using groove in polishing pad Jimin Zhang, Jianshe Tang, Brian J. Brown, Priscilla Diep LaRosa 2025-04-29
12106976 Steam-assisted single substrate cleaning process and apparatus Jianshe Tang, Haosheng Wu, Taketo Sekine, Shou-Sung Chang, Hari Soundararajan +1 more 2024-10-01 $68,865,000
11951589 Wafer edge asymmetry correction using groove in polishing pad Jimin Zhang, Jianshe Tang, Brian J. Brown, Priscilla Diep 2024-04-09 $47,694,000
11931854 Chemical mechanical polishing using time share control Jimin Zhang, Jianshe Tang, Brian J. Brown, Priscilla Diep LaRosa 2024-03-19 $54,086,000
11823916 Apparatus and method of substrate edge cleaning and substrate carrier head gap cleaning Jimin Zhang, Jianshe Tang, Brian J. Brown 2023-11-21 $39,416,000
11780045 Compensation for substrate doping for in-situ electromagnetic inductive monitoring David Maxwell Gage, Harry Q. Lee, Kun Xu, Jimin Zhang 2023-10-10 $39,034,000
11728185 Steam-assisted single substrate cleaning process and apparatus Jianshe Tang, Haosheng Wu, Taketo Sekine, Shou-Sung Chang, Hari Soundararajan +1 more 2023-08-15 $42,730,000
11298794 Chemical mechanical polishing using time share control Jimin Zhang, Jianshe Tang, Brian J. Brown, Priscilla Diep 2022-04-12 $58,287,000
8387042 Remote servlets collaboration Hong Cai, Li Tang, Bo Yang 2013-02-26 $4,239,000
8066552 Multi-layer polishing pad for low-pressure polishing Alain Duboust, Shou-Sung Chang, Siew Neo, Yan Wang, Antoine P. Manens +1 more 2011-11-29 $8,648,000
7682457 Frontside structure damage protected megasonics clean Zhiyong Li, Jianshe Tang, Bo Xie 2010-03-23 $9,727,000
7543289 Method for accessing and collaborating between servlets located on different Java virtual machines Hong Cai, Bo Yang, Li Tang 2009-06-02 $7,754,000