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Benjamin Chu-Kung — 195 Patents

Intel: 193 patents #61 of 30,777Top 1%
Google: 2 patents #10,599 of 22,993Top 50%
Portland, OR: #28 of 9,213 inventorsTop 1%
Oregon: #61 of 28,073 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #3,570 of 4,157,543Top 1%
195 Patents All Time
Benjamin Chu-Kung has been granted 195 US patents while listed as an inventor at Intel. The first was granted in 2010 and the most recent in January 2025. Benjamin Chu-Kung ranks #3,570 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.09%). Patent records list Benjamin Chu-Kung in Portland, OR, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2010 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 32 patents in 2017.peak 322010: 1 patents20102011: 3 patents2012: 8 patents20122013: 6 patents2014: 14 patents20142015: 13 patents2016: 16 patents20162017: 32 patents2018: 16 patents20182019: 17 patents2020: 16 patents20202021: 18 patents2022: 18 patents20222023: 10 patents2024: 6 patents20242025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 195 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12191395 Dual gate control for trench shaped thin film transistors Abhishek A. Sharma, Van H. Le, Gilbert Dewey, Jack T. Kavalieros, Shriram Shivaraman +2 more 2025-01-07
12183831 Self-aligned contacts for thin film transistors Van H. Le, Abhishek A. Sharma, Gilbert Dewey, Ravi Pillarisetty, Miriam Reshotko +4 more 2024-12-31 $16,542,000
12009433 Multi-dielectric gate stack for crystalline thin film transistors Van H. Le, Inanc Meric, Gilbert Dewey, Sean T. Ma, Abhishek A. Sharma +6 more 2024-06-11 $21,221,000
11973143 Source or drain structures for germanium N-channel devices Ryan Keech, Subrina RAFIQUE, Devin Merrill, Ashish Agrawal, Harold W. Kennel +4 more 2024-04-30 $26,151,000
11894465 Deep gate-all-around semiconductor device having germanium or group III-V active layer Ravi Pillarisetty, Willy Rachmady, Van H. Le, Seung Hoon Sung, Jessica S. Kachian +5 more 2024-02-06 $88,011,000
11862728 Dual gate control for trench shaped thin film transistors Abhishek A. Sharma, Van H. Le, Gilbert Dewey, Jack T. Kavalieros, Shriram Shivaraman +2 more 2024-01-02 $30,016,000
11862715 Vertical tunneling field-effect transistors Cheng-Ying Huang, Jack T. Kavalieros, Ian A. Young, Matthew V. Metz, Willy Rachmady +2 more 2024-01-02 $30,016,000
11843054 Vertical architecture of thin film transistors Van H. Le, Seung Hoon Sung, Miriam Reshotko, Matthew V. Metz, Yih Wang +6 more 2023-12-12 $45,136,000
11742429 Thin-film transistors with low contact resistance Abhishek A. Sharma, Van H. Le, Li Huey Tan, Tristan A. Tronic, Jack T. Kavalieros +1 more 2023-08-29 $19,273,000
11735670 Non-selective epitaxial source/drain deposition to reduce dopant diffusion for germanium NMOS transistors Glenn A. Glass, Anand S. Murthy, Karthik Jambunathan, Cory Bomberger, Tahir Ghani +3 more 2023-08-22 $16,803,000
11721735 Thin film transistors having U-shaped features Gilbert Dewey, Aaron D. Lilak, Van H. Le, Abhishek A. Sharma, Tahir Ghani +6 more 2023-08-08 $22,376,000
11699756 Source/drain diffusion barrier for germanium nMOS transistors Glenn A. Glass, Anand S. Murthy, Karthik Jambunathan, Cory Bomberger, Tahir Ghani +3 more 2023-07-11 $21,736,000
11690215 Self-aligned bitline and capacitor via formation Abhishek A. Sharma, Van H. Le, Jack T. Kavalieros, Tahir Ghani, Yih Wang +1 more 2023-06-27 $18,721,000
11658222 Thin film transistor with charge trap layer Abhishek A. Sharma, Van H. Le, Jack T. Kavalieros, Tahir Ghani, Gilbert Dewey +2 more 2023-05-23 $11,397,000
11637185 Contact stacks to reduce hydrogen in semiconductor devices Justin R. Weber, Harold W. Kennel, Abhishek A. Sharma, Christopher J. Jezewski, Matthew V. Metz +4 more 2023-04-25 $19,274,000
11626519 Fabrication of non-planar IGZO devices for improved electrostatics Van H. Le, Gilbert Dewey, Rafael Rios, Jack T. Kavalieros, Marko Radosavljevic +4 more 2023-04-11 $27,486,000
11575005 Asymmetrical semiconductor nanowire field-effect transistor Seung Hoon Sung, Dipanjan Basu, Ashish Agrawal, Siddharth Chouksey, Cory Bomberger +3 more 2023-02-07 $11,877,000
11538808 Structures and methods for memory cells Sean T. Ma, Aaron D. Lilak, Abhishek A. Sharma, Van H. Le, Seung Hoon Sung +3 more 2022-12-27 $12,365,000
11527656 Contact electrodes for vertical thin-film transistors Van H. Le, Tahir Ghani, Jack T. Kavalieros, Gilbert Dewey, Matthew V. Metz +4 more 2022-12-13 $11,573,000
11522060 Epitaxial layers on contact electrodes for thin- film transistors Seung Hoon Sung, Justin R. Weber, Matthew V. Metz, Arnab Sen Gupta, Abhishek A. Sharma +8 more 2022-12-06 $14,727,000
11515420 Contacts to n-type transistors with X-valley layer over L-valley channels Dax M. Crum, Cory E. Weber, Rishabh Mehandru, Harold W. Kennel 2022-11-29 $14,086,000
11476338 Aluminum indium phosphide subfin germanium channel transistors Matthew V. Metz, Willy Rachmady, Harold W. Kennel, Van H. Le, Jack T. Kavalieros +1 more 2022-10-18 $11,317,000
11450750 Thin-film transistors with vertical channels Nazila Haratipour, Tahir Ghani, Jack T. Kavalieros, Gilbert Dewey, Seung Hoon Sung +3 more 2022-09-20 $15,654,000
11450527 Engineering tensile strain buffer in art for high quality Ge channel Van H. Le, Willy Rachmady, Marc C. French, Seung Hoon Sung, Jack T. Kavalieros +2 more 2022-09-20 $15,654,000
11444204 Transistor device with channel recess structure and method of providing same Abhishek A. Sharma, Van H. Le, Sean T. Ma, Jack T. Kavalieros 2022-09-13 $14,653,000