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Keith E. Ypma — 10 Patents

Micron: 8 patents #1,840 of 6,374Top 30%
Applied Materials: 2 patents #3,681 of 7,310Top 55%
Kalispell, MT: #38 of 262 inventorsTop 15%
Montana: #230 of 3,198 inventorsTop 8%
Overall (All Time): #481,000 of 4,157,543Top 15%
10 Patents All Time
Keith E. Ypma has been granted 10 US patents while listed as an inventor at Micron. The first was granted in 2016 and the most recent in January 2025. Keith E. Ypma ranks #481,000 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 11.6%). Patent records list Keith E. Ypma in Kalispell, MT, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–10 of 10 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12195867 Electrochemical deposition systems with enhanced crystallization prevention features Kwan Wook Roh, Xundong Dai, Scott A. Wehrmann 2025-01-14
12146235 Plating and deplating currents for material co-planarity in semiconductor plating processes Paul R. McHugh, Charles Sharbono, Jing Xu, John L. Klocke, Sam Lee 2024-11-19 $80,955,000
10600667 Systems and methods for wafer alignment Yang Chao, Steve J. Strauch 2020-03-24 $12,287,000
10347519 Systems and methods for wafer alignment Yang Chao, Steve J. Strauch 2019-07-09 $14,779,000
10242901 Systems and methods for wafer alignment Yang Chao, Steve J. Strauch 2019-03-26 $20,698,000
10062595 Systems and methods for wafer alignment Yang Chao, Steve J. Strauch 2018-08-28 $23,018,000
9754895 Methods of forming semiconductor devices including determining misregistration between semiconductor levels and related apparatuses Yang Chao, Joseph Hess, Kurt J. Bossart 2017-09-05 $14,445,000
9748128 Systems and methods for wafer alignment Yang Chao, Steve J. Strauch 2017-08-29 $13,244,000
9741612 Semiconductor devices and methods for backside photo alignment Brandon P. Wirz, Christopher J. Gambee, Jaspreet S. Gandhi, Kevin M. Dowdle, Irina Vasilyeva +2 more 2017-08-22 $10,704,000
9299663 Semiconductor devices and methods for backside photo alignment Brandon P. Wirz, Christopher J. Gambee, Jaspreet S. Gandhi, Kevin M. Dowdle, Irina Vasilyeva +2 more 2016-03-29 $6,502,000