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Mark V. Smith — 38 Patents

ENEntegris: 30 patents #7 of 643Top 2%
Cypress Semiconductor: 2 patents #1,040 of 1,866Top 60%
ALAsyst Technologies L.L.C.: 2 patents #29 of 93Top 35%
SISemifab Incorporated: 1 patents #7 of 12Top 60%
UIUniversity Of Illinois: 1 patents #1,280 of 3,009Top 45%
Colorado Springs, CO: #41 of 2,971 inventorsTop 2%
Colorado: #715 of 40,980 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #84,675 of 4,157,543Top 3%
38 Patents All Time
Mark V. Smith has been granted 38 US patents while listed as an inventor at Entegris. The first was granted in 1993 and the most recent in December 2025. Mark V. Smith ranks #84,675 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.0%). Patent records list Mark V. Smith in Colorado Springs, CO, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1993 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2008.peak 51993: 1 patents19931999: 1 patents2001: 1 patents2002: 1 patents20022003: 2 patents2005: 1 patents2006: 2 patents20062007: 2 patents2008: 5 patents2009: 1 patents20092010: 3 patents2011: 2 patents2012: 1 patents20122013: 1 patents2014: 1 patents2015: 1 patents20152018: 3 patents2019: 1 patents2022: 1 patents20222023: 2 patents2024: 2 patents2025: 3 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 38 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12498225 Chain Samuel A. Shapero, Matthew Lashley, Daniel Levy 2025-12-16
12315749 Methods of installing a purge fluid conditioning element into a semiconductor substrate carrying container Matthew A. Fuller, Shawn D. Eggum 2025-05-27
12255084 Handle for wafer carrier Jason T. Steffens, Matthew A. Fuller 2025-03-18
11901205 Membrane diffuser for a substrate container Nicholas Thelen, Matthew A. Fuller, Michael C. Zabka, Sung In Moon, John P. Puglia 2024-02-13 $92,919,000
11869787 Substrate container valve assemblies Matthew A. Fuller, Jeffery J. King, John Burns 2024-01-09 $78,244,000
11610795 Membrane diffuser for a substrate container Nicholas Thelen, Matthew A. Fuller, Michael C. Zabka, Sung In Moon, John P. Puglia 2023-03-21 $126,052,000
11551957 Purge connectors and modules for a substrate container Shawn D. Eggum, Matthew A. Fuller 2023-01-10 $121,881,000
11398395 Substrate container with latching mechanism having two cam profiles Christopher Strickhouser 2022-07-26 $65,328,000
10347517 Towers for substrate carriers Christopher Beatty, Murali Bandreddi 2019-07-09 $11,952,000
10043696 Wafer container with tubular environmental control components James A. Watson, John Burns, Martin L. Forbes, Matthew A. Fuller 2018-08-07 $11,118,000
10032660 Porous barrier for evenly distributed purge gas in a microenvironment John Burns, Matthew A. Fuller 2018-07-24 $10,806,000
9997388 Substrate container with purge ports John Burns 2018-06-12 $9,389,000
9054144 Porous barrier for evenly distributed purge gas in a microenvironment John Burns, Matthew A. Fuller 2015-06-09 $10,156,000
8783463 Wafer container with tubular environmental control components James A. Watson, John Burns, Martin L. Forbes, Matthew A. Fuller 2014-07-22 $8,598,000
D673853 Substrate shipper component John Burns, Eric Stephen Olson, Russ V. Raschke, Michael S. Adams 2013-01-08
D664851 Substrate shipper component John Burns, Eric Stephen Olson, Russ V. Raschke, Michael S. Adams 2012-08-07
7900776 Wafer container with door actuated wafer restraint John Burns, Matthew A. Fuller, Jeffery J. King, Martin L. Forbes 2011-03-08 $12,954,000
7866480 Front opening substrate container with bottom plate John Burns, Matthew A. Fuller, Jeffery J. King, Martin L. Forbes 2011-01-11 $6,124,000
7857683 CMP retaining ring John Burns, Martin L. Forbes, Matthew A. Fuller, Jeffery J. King 2010-12-28 $12,324,000
7677393 Wafer container and door with vibration dampening latching mechanism John Burns, Matthew A. Fuller, Jeffery J. King, Martin L. Forbes 2010-03-16 $13,066,000
D611437 Wafer carrier door John Burns, Matthew A. Fuller, Jeffery J. King, Martin L. Forbes 2010-03-09
7523830 Wafer container with secondary wafer restraint system John Burns, Matthew A. Fuller, Jeffery J. King, Martin L. Forbes 2009-04-28 $3,770,000
7422107 Kinematic coupling with textured contact surfaces John Burns, Martin L. Forbes, Matthew A. Fuller, Jeffery J. King 2008-09-09 $4,865,000
7347329 Substrate carrier John Burns, Matthew A. Fuller, Jeffery J. King, Martin L. Forbes, Michael C. Zabka 2008-03-25 $3,624,000
7344030 Wafer carrier with apertured door for cleaning John Burns, Matthew A. Fuller, Jeffery J. King, Martin L. Forbes 2008-03-18 $3,317,000