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Zhaozhao Zhu — 17 Patents

Applied Materials: 17 patents #793 of 7,310Top 15%
Milpitas, CA: #296 of 3,192 inventorsTop 10%
California: #35,467 of 386,348 inventorsTop 10%
Overall (All Time): #263,971 of 4,157,543Top 7%
17 Patents All Time
Zhaozhao Zhu has been granted 17 US patents while listed as an inventor at Applied Materials. The first was granted in 2023 and the most recent in September 2025. Zhaozhao Zhu ranks #263,971 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 6.3%). Patent records list Zhaozhao Zhu in Milpitas, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2023 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 7 patents in 2024.peak 72023: 5 patents20232024: 7 patents20242025: 5 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–17 of 17 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12405164 Spatial optical emission spectroscopy for etch uniformity Blake Erickson, Keith R. Berding, Michael Kutney, Tsung Feng Wu, Michael D. Willwerth +1 more 2025-09-02
12339645 Estimation of chamber component conditions using substrate measurements Chunlei Zhang, Michael Kutney 2025-06-24
12283503 Substrate measurement subsystem Upendra Ummethala, Blake Erickson, Prashanth Kumar, Michael Kutney, Steven Trey Tindel 2025-04-22
12216455 Chamber component condition estimation using substrate measurements Chunlei Zhang, Michael Kutney 2025-02-04
12191176 Integrated substrate measurement system to improve manufacturing process performance Upendra Ummethala, Blake Erickson, Prashanth Kumar, Michael Kutney, Steven Trey Tindel 2025-01-07
12148647 Integrated substrate measurement system Patricia A. Schulze, Gregory John Freeman, Michael Kutney, Arunkumar Ramachandraiah, Chih Chung Chou +1 more 2024-11-19 $80,955,000
D1045924 Portion of a display panel with a graphical user interface Sidharth Bhatia, Jeffrey Yat Shan Au, Shawn Levesque, Michael David Howells, Raja Sekhar Jetti 2024-10-08
D1045923 Portion of a display panel with a graphical user interface Sidharth Bhatia, Jeffrey Yat Shan Au, Shawn Levesque, Michael David Howells, Raja Sekhar Jetti 2024-10-08
12031910 Transmission corrected plasma emission using in-situ optical reflectometry Patrick Tae, Blake Erickson, Chunlei Zhang 2024-07-09 $62,454,000
D1031743 Portion of a display panel with a graphical user interface Sidharth Bhatia, Jeffrey Yat Shan Au, Shawn Levesque, Michael David Howells, Raja Sekhar Jetti 2024-06-18
12009191 Thin film, in-situ measurement through transparent crystal and transparent substrate within processing chamber wall Patrick Tae, Blake Erickson, Michael D. Willwerth, Barry Craver 2024-06-11 $84,570,000
11927543 Multiple reflectometry for measuring etch parameters Blake Erickson, Keith R. Berding, Michael Kutney, Soumendra N. Barman, Michelle SanPedro +1 more 2024-03-12 $97,620,000
11830779 In-situ etch material selectivity detection system Keith R. Berding, Blake Erickson, Soumendra N. Barman 2023-11-28 $39,424,000
11688616 Integrated substrate measurement system to improve manufacturing process performance Upendra Ummethala, Blake Erickson, Prashanth Kumar, Michael Kutney, Steven Trey Tindel 2023-06-27 $59,089,000
11668602 Spatial optical emission spectroscopy for etch uniformity Blake Erickson, Keith R. Berding, Michael Kutney, Tsung Feng Wu, Michael D. Willwerth +1 more 2023-06-06 $40,761,000
11619594 Multiple reflectometry for measuring etch parameters Blake Erickson, Keith R. Berding, Michael Kutney, Soumendra N. Barman, Michelle SanPedro +1 more 2023-04-04 $41,324,000
D977504 Portion of a display panel with a graphical user interface Upendra Ummethala, Blake Erickson, Prashanth Kumar, Michael Kutney, Steven Trey Tindel 2023-02-07