Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025
YX

Yi Xu — 62 Patents

Applied Materials: 27 patents #433 of 7,310Top 6%
CPChina Petrochemical: 1 patents #103 of 418Top 25%
San Jose, CA: #669 of 32,062 inventorsTop 3%
California: #5,560 of 386,348 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #36,550 of 4,157,543Top 1%
62 Patents All Time
Yi Xu has been granted 62 US patents while listed as an inventor at Applied Materials. The first was granted in 2000 and the most recent in December 2025. Yi Xu ranks #36,550 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.88%). Patent records list Yi Xu in San Jose, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2000 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 13 patents in 2002.peak 132000: 4 patents20002001: 5 patents2002: 13 patents20022003: 2 patents2004: 5 patents20042005: 1 patents2006: 1 patents20062008: 1 patents2018: 1 patents20182019: 2 patents2020: 2 patents20202021: 2 patents2022: 7 patents20222023: 3 patents2024: 4 patents20242025: 9 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 62 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12496145 3D visualization enhancement for depth perception and collision avoidance Berk Gonenc 2025-12-16
12492368 Monitoring air pressure within a cell processing system Stephen L. Carmichael, Joshua SHEN, Bharat S. THAKKAR, Jong Han Yang 2025-12-09
12406884 Self field-suppression CVD tungsten (W) fill on PVD W liner Zhimin QI, Shirish A. PETHE, Xingyao GAO, Shiyu YUE, Aixi ZHANG +5 more 2025-09-02
D1089130 Process chamber manifold Geraldine VASQUEZ, Shreyas Patil Shanthaveeraswamy, Mehran Behdjat, Dien-Yeh Wu, Jallepally Ravi +3 more 2025-08-19
12394619 Metal oxide preclean for bottom-up gapfill in MEOL and BEOL Shiyu YUE, Jiajie Cen, Sahil Patel, Zhimin QI, Ju Hyun OH +10 more 2025-08-19
12374568 One chamber multi-station selective metal removal Shiyu YUE, Sahil Patel, Yu Lei, Wei Lei, Chih-Hsun Hsu +7 more 2025-07-29
12272659 Methods for forming metal gapfill with low resistivity Yu Lei, Zhimin QI, Aixi ZHANG, Xianyuan ZHAO, Wei Lei +8 more 2025-04-08
12230479 Processing chamber with multiple plasma units Kazuya Daito, Yu Lei, Takashi Kuratomi, Jallepally Ravi, Pingyan Lei +1 more 2025-02-18
12191200 Methods for minimizing feature-to-feature gap fill height variations Jiajie Cen, Da He, Yu Lei 2025-01-07
11967525 Selective tungsten deposition at low temperatures Yufei Hu, Yu Lei, Kazuya Daito, Da He, Jiajie Cen 2024-04-23 $64,043,000
11955319 Processing chamber with multiple plasma units Kazuya Daito, Yu Lei, Takashi Kuratomi, Jallepally Ravi, Pingyan Lei +1 more 2024-04-09 $47,694,000
11955381 Low-temperature plasma pre-clean for selective gap fill Yufei Hu, Kazuya Daito, Geraldine VASQUEZ, Da He, Jallepally Ravi +2 more 2024-04-09 $47,694,000
11948836 Deposition of metal films with tungsten liner Yu Lei, Sang-Hyeob Lee, Chris Pabelico, Tae Hong Ha, Xianmin Tang +1 more 2024-04-02 $42,223,000
11776806 Multi-step pre-clean for selective metal gap fill Xi Cen, Yakuan Yao, Yiming Lai, Kai Wu, Avgerinos V. Gelatos +8 more 2023-10-03 $34,462,000
11776805 Selective oxidation and simplified pre-clean Bencherki Mebarki, Joung Joo Lee, Yu Lei, Xianmin Tang, Kelvin Chan +2 more 2023-10-03 $34,462,000
11721542 Dual plasma pre-clean for selective gap fill Yufei Hu, Kazuya Daito, Yu Lei, Dien-Yeh Wu, Jallepally Ravi 2023-08-08 $46,911,000
11515200 Selective tungsten deposition within trench structures Yufei Hu, He Ren, Yu Lei, Shi YOU, Kazuya Daito 2022-11-29 $23,914,000
11421322 Blocker plate for use in a substrate process chamber Xiaoxiong Yuan, Yu Lei, Kazuya Daito, Pingyan Lei, Dien-Yeh Wu +2 more 2022-08-23 $37,610,000
11417568 Methods for selective deposition of tungsten atop a dielectric layer for bottom up gapfill Wei Lei, Yu Lei, Tae Hong Ha, Raymond Hung, Shirish A. PETHE 2022-08-16 $38,686,000
11404313 Selective tungsten deposition at low temperatures Yufei Hu, Yu Lei, Kazuya Daito, Da He, Jiajie Cen 2022-08-02 $46,822,000
11380536 Multi-step pre-clean for selective metal gap fill Xi Cen, Yakuan Yao, Yiming Lai, Kai Wu, Avgerinos V. Gelatos +8 more 2022-07-05 $35,888,000
11371117 Process for multi-recycling, low-energy and high-purity extraction of lithium 2022-06-28
11355391 Method for forming a metal gapfill Xi Cen, Feiyue Ma, Kai Wu, Yu Lei, Kazuya Daito +13 more 2022-06-07 $46,649,000
11171045 Deposition of metal films with tungsten liner Yu Lei, Sang-Hyeob Lee, Chris Pabelico, Tae Hong Ha, Xianmin Tang +1 more 2021-11-09 $68,627,000
11164780 Process integration approach for selective metal via fill Shi YOU, He Ren, Mehul Naik, Feng Chen 2021-11-02 $95,673,000