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William M. Lu — 7 Patents

Applied Materials: 7 patents #1,734 of 7,310Top 25%
Sunnyvale, CA: #3,819 of 14,302 inventorsTop 30%
California: #83,669 of 386,348 inventorsTop 25%
Overall (All Time): #680,018 of 4,157,543Top 20%
7 Patents All Time
William M. Lu has been granted 7 US patents while listed as an inventor at Applied Materials. The first was granted in 2015 and the most recent in November 2023. William M. Lu ranks #680,018 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 16.4%). Patent records list William M. Lu in Sunnyvale, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2015 to 2023Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2015.peak 22015: 2 patents20152020: 1 patents20202021: 1 patents20212022: 1 patents20222023: 2 patents2023

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–7 of 7 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11810766 Protection of aluminum process chamber components Karthikeyan Balaraman, Sathyanarayana Bindiganavale, Rajasekhar PATIBANDLA, Balamurugan Ramasamy, Kartik Shah +3 more 2023-11-07 $37,048,000
11648639 Polishing jig assembly for a new or refurbished electrostatic chuck Wendell Glenn Boyd, Jr., Stacy Meyer 2023-05-16 $64,199,000
11260498 Method of polishing a new or a refurbished electrostatic chuck Wendell Glen Boyd, Jr., Stacy Meyer 2022-03-01 $41,046,000
11072852 Pre-conditioned chamber components Brian T. West, Lizhong Sun 2021-07-27 $132,720,000
10583465 30 nm in-line LPC testing and cleaning of semiconductor processing equipment Jianqi Wang, Yixing Lin, Kevin A. PAPKE 2020-03-10 $33,694,000
9101954 Geometries and patterns for surface texturing to increase deposition retention Jianqi Wang, Yukari Nishimura, Joseph F. Sommers, Sio On Lo, Rajan Balesan 2015-08-11 $26,660,000
9001489 Electrostatic chuck AlN dielectric repair Wendell Glenn Boyd, Jr., Joseph F. Sommers, Rajan Balesan 2015-04-07 $14,815,000