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

Yu Lei — 71 Patents

Applied Materials: 50 patents #160 of 7,310Top 3%
UCUniversity Of Connecticut: 5 patents #59 of 887Top 7%
MIT: 2 patents #2,550 of 9,367Top 30%
PSPenn State: 2 patents #350 of 1,788Top 20%
UAUniveristy Of Alabama: 2 patents #16 of 100Top 20%
DEDongfang Electric: 2 patents #9 of 23Top 40%
UAUchicago Argonne: 1 patents #458 of 1,009Top 50%
Belmont, CA: #13 of 1,494 inventorsTop 1%
California: #4,357 of 386,348 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #28,405 of 4,157,543Top 1%
71 Patents All Time
Yu Lei has been granted 71 US patents while listed as an inventor at Applied Materials. The first was granted in 2010 and the most recent in September 2025. Yu Lei ranks #28,405 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.68%). Patent records list Yu Lei in Belmont, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2010 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 11 patents in 2025.peak 112010: 1 patents20102013: 2 patents2014: 5 patents20142015: 5 patents2016: 4 patents20162017: 3 patents2018: 4 patents20182019: 7 patents2020: 4 patents20202021: 1 patents2022: 8 patents20222023: 9 patents2024: 7 patents20242025: 11 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 71 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12406884 Self field-suppression CVD tungsten (W) fill on PVD W liner Zhimin QI, Yi Xu, Shirish A. PETHE, Xingyao GAO, Shiyu YUE +5 more 2025-09-02
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
D1089130 Process chamber manifold Geraldine VASQUEZ, Shreyas Patil Shanthaveeraswamy, Mehran Behdjat, Dien-Yeh Wu, Jallepally Ravi +3 more 2025-08-19
12374568 One chamber multi-station selective metal removal Shiyu YUE, Sahil Patel, Wei Lei, Chih-Hsun Hsu, Yi Xu +7 more 2025-07-29
12344539 Plasmon-enhanced catalytic ozonation for recalcitrant water pollutant removal Tingtang Wu, Wenwen Yang 2025-07-01
12318537 Respiratory apparatus with noise-damping member Jiebing XU, Haibin Yu, Zhenxiang Hu 2025-06-03
12293902 Process kit for a substrate support Muhannad Mustafa, Muhammad M. Rasheed, Avgerinos V. Gelatos, Vikash Banthia, Victor H Calderon +3 more 2025-05-06
12280217 Heater plate Jiebing XU, Haibin Yu, Zhenxiang Hu, Jun Zhao 2025-04-22
12272659 Methods for forming metal gapfill with low resistivity Yi Xu, Zhimin QI, Aixi ZHANG, Xianyuan ZHAO, Wei Lei +8 more 2025-04-08
12230479 Processing chamber with multiple plasma units Kazuya Daito, Yi Xu, 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, Yi Xu 2025-01-07
12100576 Metal oxide preclean chamber with improved selectivity and flow conductance Andrew Nguyen, Xue Yang Chang, Xianmin Tang, John C. Forster, Yogananda Sarode Vishwanath +2 more 2024-09-24 $100,019,000
11967525 Selective tungsten deposition at low temperatures Yi Xu, Yufei Hu, Kazuya Daito, Da He, Jiajie Cen 2024-04-23 $64,043,000
11958038 Reductive boron nitride with extended reactive vacancies for catalytic applications Mauricio Terrones, He Liu, Kazunori FUJISAWA, Ana Laura Elias Arriaga, Tianyi Zhang +4 more 2024-04-16 $521,000
11955381 Low-temperature plasma pre-clean for selective gap fill Yi Xu, Yufei Hu, Kazuya Daito, Geraldine VASQUEZ, Da He +2 more 2024-04-09 $47,694,000
11955319 Processing chamber with multiple plasma units Kazuya Daito, Yi Xu, Takashi Kuratomi, Jallepally Ravi, Pingyan Lei +1 more 2024-04-09 $47,694,000
11948836 Deposition of metal films with tungsten liner Sang-Hyeob Lee, Chris Pabelico, Yi Xu, Tae Hong Ha, Xianmin Tang +1 more 2024-04-02 $42,223,000
11929691 Triboelectric generator systems and methods for energy harvesting and sensing applications Gang Wang, Moonhyung Jang, Jacob Lee 2024-03-12
11774612 Device for monitoring and identifying mountain torrent and debris flow and method for early warning of disasters Chuanzheng Liu, Peng Cui, Qiang Zou 2023-10-03
11776805 Selective oxidation and simplified pre-clean Bencherki Mebarki, Joung Joo Lee, Yi Xu, Xianmin Tang, Kelvin Chan +2 more 2023-10-03 $34,462,000
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
11749543 Chamber matching and calibration Xuesong Lu, Anup Phatak, Hyman Lam, Chong Jiang, Malcolm Delaney +1 more 2023-09-05 $42,922,000
11739164 Compositions and methods related to 2 dimensional molecular composites Melik C. Demirel, Mert VURAL, Mauricio Terrones, Ibrahim T. Ozbolat 2023-08-29 $531,000
11721542 Dual plasma pre-clean for selective gap fill Yi Xu, Yufei Hu, Kazuya Daito, Dien-Yeh Wu, Jallepally Ravi 2023-08-08 $46,911,000
11713300 Platelet aggregation inhibitor, preparation and uses thereof Shaojie Wang, Bing Zhang 2023-08-01