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William Taylor — 24 Patents

Applied Materials: 17 patents #793 of 7,310Top 15%
MSMedos International Sarl: 7 patents #73 of 333Top 25%
Del Mar, CA: #66 of 784 inventorsTop 9%
California: #23,266 of 386,348 inventorsTop 7%
Overall (All Time): #168,038 of 4,157,543Top 5%
24 Patents All Time
William Taylor has been granted 24 US patents while listed as an inventor at Applied Materials. The first was granted in 1997 and the most recent in September 2025. William Taylor ranks #168,038 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.0%). Patent records list William Taylor in Del Mar, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–24 of 24 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12402909 Multi-shield spinal access system Daniel Thommen, Joern Richter, Michael Wang, Richard Assaker, Richard G. Fessler +4 more 2025-09-02
11883064 Multi-shield spinal access system Daniel Thommen, Joern Richter, Michael Wang, Richard Assaker, Richard G. Fessler +4 more 2024-01-30
11712264 Multi-shield spinal access system Daniel Thommen, Joern Richter, Michael Wang, Richard Assaker, Richard G. Fessler +6 more 2023-08-01
11672562 Multi-shield spinal access system Daniel Thommen, Joern Richter, Michael Wang, Richard Assaker, Richard G. Fessler +4 more 2023-06-13
11000312 Multi-shield spinal access system Daniel Thommen, Joern Richter, Michael Wang, Richard Assaker, Richard G. Fessler +6 more 2021-05-11
10987129 Multi-shield spinal access system Daniel Thommen, Joern Richter, Michael Wang, Richard Assaker, Richard G. Fessler +4 more 2021-04-27
10874425 Multi-shield spinal access system Daniel Thommen, Joern Richter, Michael Wang, Richard Assaker, Richard G. Fessler +4 more 2020-12-29
8599531 Electrostatic end effector apparatus, systems and methods Satish Sundar, Jeffrey C. Hudgens, Prudhvi R. Chintalapati, William P. Laceky, Jeffrey A. Brodine +2 more 2013-12-03 $15,303,000
7004107 Method and apparatus for monitoring and adjusting chamber impedance Sebastien Raoux, Mandar Mudholkar 2006-02-28 $21,386,000
6689930 Method and apparatus for cleaning an exhaust line in a semiconductor processing system Ben Pang, David Cheung, Sebastion Raoux, Mark Fodor 2004-02-10 $27,822,000
6680420 Apparatus for cleaning an exhaust line in a semiconductor processing system Ben Pang, David Cheung, Sebastien Raoux, Mark Fodor 2004-01-20 $55,713,000
6539621 Safety guard for an RF connector Richard R. Mett, Mark W. Curry 2003-04-01 $20,539,000
6517913 Method and apparatus for reducing perfluorocompound gases from substrate processing equipment emissions David Cheung, Sebastien Raoux, Judy H. Huang, Mark Fodor, Kevin Fairbairn 2003-02-11 $17,783,000
6485248 Multiple wafer lift apparatus and associated method 2002-11-26 $35,140,000
6358573 Mixed frequency CVD process Sebastien Raoux, Mandar Mudholkar, Mark Fodor, Judy H. Huang, David Silvetti +2 more 2002-03-19 $47,426,000
6273736 Safety guard for an RF connector Richard R. Mett, Mark W. Curry 2001-08-14 $56,947,000
6194628 Method and apparatus for cleaning a vacuum line in a CVD system Ben Pang, David Cheung, Sebastien Raoux, Mark Fodor 2001-02-27 $52,416,000
6193802 Parallel plate apparatus for in-situ vacuum line cleaning for substrate processing equipment Ben Pang, David Cheung, Sebastien Raoux, Mark Fodor 2001-02-27 $52,416,000
6187072 Method and apparatus for reducing perfluorocompound gases from substrate processing equipment emissions David Cheung, Sebastien Raoux, Judy H. Huang, Mark Fodor, Kevin Fairbairn 2001-02-13 $172,556,000
6170430 Gas feedthrough with electrostatic discharge characteristic Kuo-Shih Liu, Ernest Cheung, Prasanth Kumar, John Ferguson, Michael G. Friebe +1 more 2001-01-09 $65,370,000
6147855 Variable capacitor 2000-11-14 $66,218,000
6136388 Substrate processing chamber with tunable impedance Sebastien Raoux, Mandar Mudholkar 2000-10-24 $85,890,000
6098568 Mixed frequency CVD apparatus Sebastien Raoux, Mandar Mudholkar, Mark Fodor, Judy H. Huang, David Silvetti +2 more 2000-08-08 $74,240,000
5643364 Plasma chamber with fixed RF matching Jun Zhao, Stefan Wolff, Kenneth Smyth, Gerald McNutt 1997-07-01 $28,802,000