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William Johanson — 25 Patents

Applied Materials: 23 patents #558 of 7,310Top 8%
NSNovellus Systems: 2 patents #345 of 780Top 45%
Gilroy, CA: #49 of 527 inventorsTop 10%
California: #22,079 of 386,348 inventorsTop 6%
Overall (All Time): #158,593 of 4,157,543Top 4%
25 Patents All Time
William Johanson has been granted 25 US patents while listed as an inventor at Applied Materials. The first was granted in 2002 and the most recent in July 2025. William Johanson ranks #158,593 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.8%). Patent records list William Johanson in Gilroy, CA, US.

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Showing 1–25 of 25 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12368028 Apparatus for improved high pressure plasma processing Cory Eugene Lafollett, Kirankumar Neelasandra SAVANDAIAH 2025-07-22
12014906 High temperature detachable very high frequency (VHF) electrostatic chuck (ESC) for PVD chamber Keith A. Miller, Cheng-Hsiung Tsai, John C. Forster, Mukund Sundararajan 2024-06-18 $83,264,000
11655534 Apparatus for reducing tungsten resistivity Wenting Hou, Jianxin Lei, Jothilingam Ramalingam, Prashanth Kothnur 2023-05-23 $53,064,000
11447857 Methods and apparatus for reducing tungsten resistivity Wenting Hou, Jianxin Lei, Jothilingam Ramalingam, Prashanth Kothnur 2022-09-20 $25,949,000
11361982 Methods and apparatus for in-situ cleaning of electrostatic chucks Kirankumar Neelasandra SAVANDAIAH, David Gunther, Prashant Prabhakar Prabhu 2022-06-14 $21,647,000
11270898 Apparatus for enhancing flow uniformity in a process chamber Jothilingam Ramalingam, Kirankumar Neelasandra SAVANDAIAH, Fuhong Zhang 2022-03-08 $69,139,000
11056325 Methods and apparatus for substrate edge uniformity Thanh X. Nguyen, Alexander Jansen, Yana Cheng, Randal Dean Schmieding, Yong Cao +1 more 2021-07-06 $60,527,000
11049701 Biased cover ring for a substrate processing system Adolph Miller Allen, Viachslav Babayan, Zhong Qiang Hua, Carl Johnson, Vanessa Faune +4 more 2021-06-29 $47,858,000
11024490 Magnetron having enhanced target cooling configuration Vanessa Faune, Kirankumar Neelasandra SAVANDAIAH 2021-06-01 $74,932,000
D902165 Target profile for a physical vapor deposition chamber target Kirankumar Neelasandra SAVANDAIAH, Prashant Prabhakar Prabhu 2020-11-17
D894137 Target profile for a physical vapor deposition chamber target Kirankumar Neelasandra SAVANDAIAH, Anthony Chih-Tung Chan, Siew Kit Hoi, Prashant Prabhakar Prabhu 2020-08-25
10648071 Process kit having a floating shadow ring Siew Kit Hoi, John Mazzocco, Kirankumar Neelasandra SAVANDAIAH, Prashant Prabhakar Prabhu 2020-05-12 $50,210,000
D877101 Target profile for a physical vapor deposition chamber target Kirankumar Neelasandra SAVANDAIAH, Prashant Prabhakar Prabhu 2020-03-03
D851613 Target profile for a physical vapor deposition chamber target Kirankumar Neelasandra SAVANDAIAH, Anthony Chih-Tung Chan, Siew Kit Hoi, Prashant Prabhakar Prabhu 2019-06-18
10283334 Methods and apparatus for maintaining low non-uniformity over target life Fuhong Zhang, Adolph Miller Allen, Yu Liu 2019-05-07 $13,988,000
10103012 One-piece process kit shield for reducing the impact of an electric field near the substrate Kirankumar Neelasandra SAVANDAIAH 2018-10-16 $21,789,000
D825504 Target profile for a physical vapor deposition chamber target Fuhong Zhang, Yu Liu, Adolph Miller Allen, Brij Datta, Keith A. Miller 2018-08-14
9991101 Magnetron assembly for physical vapor deposition chamber Brij Datta, Fuhong Zhang, Adolph Miller Allen, Yu Liu, Prashanth Kothnur 2018-06-05 $36,422,000
9953812 Integrated process kit for a substrate processing chamber Kirankumar Neelasandra SAVANDAIAH, Xin Wang, Prashant Prabhakar Prabhu 2018-04-24 $74,029,000
9909206 Process kit having tall deposition ring and deposition ring clamp Kirankumar Neelasandra SAVANDAIAH, Adolph Miller Allen, Xin Wang, Prashant Prabhakar Prabhu 2018-03-06 $32,877,000
D797067 Target profile for a physical vapor deposition chamber target Fuhong Zhang, Yu Liu, Adolph Miller Allen, Brij Datta, Keith A. Miller 2017-09-12
9472443 Selectively groundable cover ring for substrate process chambers Muhammad M. Rasheed, Kirankumar Neelasandra SAVANDAIAH, Zhenbin Ge, Goichi Yoshidome 2016-10-18 $11,711,000
9315891 Methods for processing a substrate using multiple substrate support positions Joung Joo Lee, Keith A. Miller, Alan A. Ritchie 2016-04-19 $19,369,000
7737035 Dual seal deposition process chamber and process Gary Lind, Colin F. Smith, Thomas M. Pratt, John Mazzocco 2010-06-15 $8,494,000
6405101 Wafer centering system and method Craig L. Stevens, Steve Kleinke, Damon Tyrone Genetti 2002-06-11 $37,586,000