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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025
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Zihui Li — 33 Patents

Applied Materials: 30 patents #374 of 7,310Top 6%
WARF: 1 patents #1,912 of 4,123Top 50%
IBM: 1 patents #44,878 of 70,183Top 65%
Samsung: 1 patents #50,112 of 75,807Top 70%
Santa Clara, CA: #424 of 9,301 inventorsTop 5%
California: #15,252 of 386,348 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #105,480 of 4,157,543Top 3%
33 Patents All Time
Zihui Li has been granted 33 US patents while listed as an inventor at Applied Materials. The first was granted in 2015 and the most recent in September 2025. Zihui Li ranks #105,480 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.5%). Patent records list Zihui Li in Santa Clara, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2015 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 7 patents in 2015.peak 72015: 7 patents20152016: 4 patents2017: 5 patents20172018: 2 patents2019: 5 patents20192020: 1 patents2021: 1 patents20212022: 1 patents2023: 2 patents20232024: 2 patents2025: 3 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 33 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12431360 Selective etching between silicon-and-germanium-containing materials with varying germanium concentrations Jiayin Huang, Anchuan Wang, Nitin K. Ingle 2025-09-30
12394631 Selective etching of silicon-and-germanium-containing materials with increased surface purities Jiayin Huang, Yi Jin, Anchuan Wang, Nitin K. Ingle 2025-08-19
12334358 Integration processes utilizing boron-doped silicon materials Takehito Koshizawa, Karthik Janakiraman, Rui Cheng, Krishna Nittala, Menghui Li +8 more 2025-06-17
12111322 Mass spectrometry-based method for simultaneous qualitative and quantitative protein citrullination analysis of complex biological samples Lingjun Li, Yatao Shi 2024-10-08
11875131 Zero-shot cross-lingual transfer learning Yunyao Li, Prithviraj Sen, Huaiyu Zhu 2024-01-16 $9,068,000
11764058 Three-color 3D DRAM stack and methods of making Arvind Kumar, Mahendra Pakala, Ellie Yieh, John Tolle, Thomas Kirschenheiter +1 more 2023-09-19 $44,467,000
11637002 Methods and systems to enhance process uniformity Saravjeet Singh, Alan Tso, Jingchun Zhang, Hanshen Zhang, Dmitry Lubomirsky 2023-04-25 $46,789,000
11239061 Methods and systems to enhance process uniformity Saravjeet Singh, Alan Tso, Jingchun Zhang, Hanshen Zhang, Dmitry Lubomirsky 2022-02-01 $81,914,000
11004689 Thermal silicon etch Rui Cheng, Anchuan Wang, Nitin K. Ingle, Abhijit Basu Mallick 2021-05-11 $77,987,000
10573527 Gas-phase selective etching systems and methods Geetika Bajaj, Robert Jan Visser, Nitin K. Ingle, Prerna Goradia 2020-02-25 $22,337,000
10497573 Selective atomic layer etching of semiconductor materials Prerna Goradia, Fei Wang, Geetika Bajaj, Nitin K. Ingle, Robert Jan Visser +1 more 2019-12-03 $22,017,000
10319600 Thermal silicon etch Rui Cheng, Anchuan Wang, Nitin K. Ingle, Abhijit Basu Mallick 2019-06-11 $20,889,000
10249507 Methods for selective etching of a silicon material Xing-Fu Zhong, Anchuan Wang, Nitin K. Ingle 2019-04-02 $31,503,000
10204796 Methods for selective etching of a silicon material using HF gas without nitrogen etchants Nitin K. Ingle, Anchuan Wang, Mikhail Korolik 2019-02-12 $37,465,000
10170336 Methods for anisotropic control of selective silicon removal Chia-Ling Kao, Anchuan Wang, Nitin K. Ingle 2019-01-01
9991134 Processing systems and methods for halide scavenging Anchuan Wang, Xinglong Chen, Hiroshi Hamana, Zhijun Chen, Ching-Mei Hsu +5 more 2018-06-05 $36,422,000
9881805 Silicon selective removal Ching-Mei Hsu, Hanshen Zhang, Jingchun Zhang 2018-01-30 $26,789,000
9831097 Methods for selective etching of a silicon material using HF gas without nitrogen etchants Nitin K. Ingle, Anchuan Wang, Mikhail Korolik 2017-11-28 $20,834,000
9704723 Processing systems and methods for halide scavenging Anchuan Wang, Xinglong Chen, Hiroshi Hamana, Zhijun Chen, Ching-Mei Hsu +5 more 2017-07-11 $41,590,000
9659792 Processing systems and methods for halide scavenging Anchuan Wang, Xinglong Chen, Hiroshi Hamana, Zhijun Chen, Ching-Mei Hsu +5 more 2017-05-23 $22,760,000
9653310 Methods for selective etching of a silicon material Xing-Fu Zhong, Anchuan Wang, Nitin K. Ingle 2017-05-16 $17,932,000
9612975 Page cache device and method for efficient mapping 2017-04-04
9502258 Anisotropic gap etch Jun Xue, Ching-Mei Hsu, Ludovic Godet, Anchuan Wang, Nitin K. Ingle 2016-11-22 $14,203,000
9449850 Processing systems and methods for halide scavenging Anchuan Wang, Xinglong Chen, Hiroshi Hamana, Zhijun Chen, Ching-Mei Hsu +5 more 2016-09-20 $12,933,000
9412608 Dry-etch for selective tungsten removal Xikun Wang, Ching-Mei Hsu, Nitin K. Ingle, Anchuan Wang 2016-08-09 $15,983,000