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Aaron Eppler — 18 Patents

Lam Research: 16 patents #172 of 2,128Top 9%
Applied Materials: 2 patents #3,681 of 7,310Top 55%
Los Gatos, CA: #486 of 2,986 inventorsTop 20%
California: #33,102 of 386,348 inventorsTop 9%
Overall (All Time): #245,716 of 4,157,543Top 6%
18 Patents All Time
Aaron Eppler has been granted 18 US patents while listed as an inventor at Lam Research. The first was granted in 2002 and the most recent in June 2025. Aaron Eppler ranks #245,716 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.9%). Patent records list Aaron Eppler in Los Gatos, CA, US.

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Showing 1–18 of 18 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12334354 Sidewall passivation for plasma etching Zhonghua Yao, Qian Fu, Mukund Srinivasan 2025-06-17
12237149 Reducing aspect ratio dependent etch with direct current bias pulsing Deyang Li, Sunil Srinivasan, Yi-Chuan Chou, Shahid Rauf, Kuan-Ting Liu +5 more 2025-02-25
10763142 System and method for determining field non-uniformities of a wafer processing chamber using a wafer processing parameter Marcus Musselman, Juan Valdivia, Hua Xiang, Andrew D. Bailey, III, Yoko Yamaguchi +1 more 2020-09-01 $45,225,000
10446394 Spacer profile control using atomic layer deposition in a multiple patterning process Mirzafer Abatchev, Qian Fu, Yoko Yamaguchi 2019-10-15 $79,761,000
10242883 High aspect ratio etch of oxide metal oxide metal stack Joydeep Guha, Sirish Reddy, Kaushik Chattopadhyay, Thomas W. Mountsier, Thorsten Lill +2 more 2019-03-26 $25,605,000
9899227 System, method and apparatus for ion milling in a plasma etch chamber Joydeep Guha, Butsurin Jinnai, Jun Hee HAN 2018-02-20 $51,409,000
9659783 High aspect ratio etch with combination mask Joydeep Guha, Sirish Reddy, Kaushik Chattopadhyay, Thomas W. Mountsier, Thorsten Lill +2 more 2017-05-23 $39,116,000
9018103 High aspect ratio etch with combination mask Joydeep Guha, Sirish Reddy, Kaushik Chattopadhyay, Thomas W. Mountsier, Thorsten Lill +2 more 2015-04-28 $13,188,000
7682480 Photoresist conditioning with hydrogen ramping Keren Jacobs Kanarik 2010-03-23 $3,938,000
7645707 Etch profile control Camelia Rusu, Zhisong Huang, Mukund Srinivasan, Eric A. Hudson 2010-01-12 $13,850,000
7547635 Process for etching dielectric films with improved resist and/or etch profile characteristics Mukund Srinivasan, Robert Chebi 2009-06-16 $18,132,000
7544521 Negative bias critical dimension trim Scott Briggs 2009-06-09 $18,730,000
7405521 Multiple frequency plasma processor method and apparatus Raj Dhindsa, S. M. Reza Sadjadi, Felix Kozakevich, Dave Trussell, Lumin Li +5 more 2008-07-29 $32,550,000
7135410 Etch with ramping Keren Jacobs 2006-11-14 $36,976,000
7053003 Photoresist conditioning with hydrogen ramping Karen Jacobs Kanarik 2006-05-30 $11,206,000
6921724 Variable temperature processes for tunable electrostatic chuck Tom A. Kamp, Richard A. Gottscho, Steve Lee, Chris Lee, Yoko Yamaguchi +1 more 2005-07-26 $7,289,000
6824627 Stepped upper electrode for plasma processing uniformity Rajinder Dhindsa, Mukund Srinivasan, Eric H. Lenz 2004-11-30 $13,489,000
6391787 Stepped upper electrode for plasma processing uniformity Rajinder Dhindsa, Mukund Srinivasan, Eric H. Lenz 2002-05-21 $10,610,000