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Yan Ye — 118 Patents

Applied Materials: 112 patents #30 of 7,310Top 1%
OTOmnivision Technologies: 1 patents #379 of 604Top 65%
TCTsann Kuen (Zhangzhou) Enterprise Co.: 1 patents #48 of 130Top 40%
Overall (All Time): #10,312 of 4,157,543Top 1%
118 Patents All Time
Yan Ye has been granted 118 US patents while listed as an inventor at Applied Materials. The first was granted in 1995 and the most recent in April 2025. Yan Ye ranks #10,312 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.25%). Patent records list Yan Ye in Singapore, CA, SG.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1995 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 12 patents in 2002.peak 121995: 3 patents19951996: 2 patents1997: 5 patents1998: 5 patents19981999: 5 patents2000: 7 patents2001: 7 patents20012002: 12 patents2003: 11 patents2004: 1 patents20042005: 7 patents2006: 5 patents2007: 6 patents20072008: 2 patents2009: 4 patents2010: 4 patents20102011: 7 patents2012: 7 patents2013: 5 patents20132014: 3 patents2015: 3 patents2016: 2 patents20162017: 2 patents2018: 1 patents2020: 1 patents20202025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 118 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12273623 Hybrid dynamic vision sensor and CMOS device for motion compensation Zhongyang Huang, Guansong Liu 2025-04-08
10629581 Thin film semiconductor material produced through reactive sputtering of zinc target using nitrogen gases 2020-04-21 $32,079,000
9871124 Method of IGZO and ZnO TFT fabrication with PECVD SiO2 passivation Jrjyan Jerry CHEN, Soo Young Choi, Dong-Kil Yim 2018-01-16 $25,242,000
9624597 Methods and apparatuses for delaminating process pieces 2017-04-18
9553195 Method of IGZO and ZNO TFT fabrication with PECVD SiO2 passivation Jrjyan Jerry CHEN, Soo Young Choi, Dong-Kil Yim 2017-01-24 $20,961,000
9396940 Thin film semiconductors made through low temperature process 2016-07-19 $14,320,000
9385239 Buffer layers for metal oxide semiconductors for TFT Kurtis Leschkies, Steven Verhaverbeke, Robert Jan Visser, John M. White, Dong-Kil Yim 2016-07-05 $10,411,000
8980066 Thin film metal oxynitride semiconductors 2015-03-17 $8,353,000
D723858 Coffee machine 2015-03-10
8975625 TFT with insert in passivation layer or etch stop layer Harvey YOU 2015-03-10 $17,071,000
8840763 Methods for stable process in a reactive sputtering process using zinc or doped zinc target 2014-09-23 $28,245,000
8809132 Capping layers for metal oxynitride TFTs 2014-08-19 $15,864,000
8669552 Offset electrode TFT structure 2014-03-11 $12,153,000
8614007 Thin film semiconductor material produced through reactive sputtering of zinc target using nitrogen gases 2013-12-24 $49,045,000
8574411 Reactive sputtering chamber with gas distribution tubes John M. White, Akihiro Hosokawa 2013-11-05 $51,301,000
8435843 Treatment of gate dielectric for making high performance metal oxide and metal oxynitride thin film transistors 2013-05-07 $10,477,000
8398826 Thin film semiconductor material produced through reactive sputtering of zinc target using nitrogen gases 2013-03-19 $6,887,000
8349669 Thin film transistors using multiple active channel layers 2013-01-08 $7,807,000
8298879 Methods of fabricating metal oxide or metal oxynitride TFTS using wet process for source-drain metal etch 2012-10-30
8294148 Thin film transistors using thin film semiconductor materials 2012-10-23 $4,153,000
8279577 Substrate support having fluid channel Andrew Nguyen, Wing Cheng, Hiroji Hanawa, Semyon L. Kats, Kartik Ramaswamy +4 more 2012-10-02 $19,868,000
8258511 Thin film transistors using multiple active channel layers 2012-09-04 $11,311,000
8236105 Apparatus for controlling gas flow in a semiconductor substrate processing chamber Kallol Bera, Heeyeop Chae, Hamid Tavassoli 2012-08-07 $10,850,000
8143093 Process to make metal oxide thin film transistor array with etch stopping layer 2012-03-27 $13,154,000
8101949 Treatment of gate dielectric for making high performance metal oxide and metal oxynitride thin film transistors 2012-01-24 $14,249,000