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Kyle M. Hanson — 115 Patents

SESemitool: 71 patents #1 of 141Top 1%
Applied Materials: 39 patents #240 of 7,310Top 4%
WARF: 2 patents #1,011 of 4,123Top 25%
Ford: 2 patents #6,478 of 17,473Top 40%
Kalispell, MT: #2 of 262 inventorsTop 1%
Montana: #4 of 3,198 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #10,885 of 4,157,543Top 1%
115 Patents All Time
Kyle M. Hanson has been granted 115 US patents while listed as an inventor at Semitool. The first was granted in 1999 and the most recent in November 2025. Kyle M. Hanson ranks #10,885 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.26%). Patent records list Kyle M. Hanson in Kalispell, MT, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1999 to 2024Bar chart with a peak of 11 patents in 2005.peak 111999: 3 patents19992000: 3 patents2001: 10 patents2002: 7 patents20022003: 8 patents2004: 4 patents2005: 11 patents20052006: 7 patents2007: 7 patents2008: 4 patents20082009: 3 patents2010: 2 patents2011: 4 patents20112012: 3 patents2013: 3 patents2014: 3 patents20142015: 2 patents2016: 2 patents2017: 3 patents20172018: 6 patents2019: 3 patents2020: 3 patents20202022: 6 patents2023: 6 patents2024: 1 patents2024

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 115 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12469720 Electroplating wetting chamber with reduced bubble entrapment Eric C. Bergman, Gregory Joseph Wilson, Paul R. McHugh, Benjamin BRADLEY, Aaron Paul Juntunen +6 more 2025-11-11
11982008 Electroplating system Paul R. McHugh, Gregory J. Wilson, John L. Klocke, Paul Van Valkenburg, Eric J. Bergman +5 more 2024-05-14 $61,768,000
11788200 Fluid recovery in semiconductor processing Sam Lee, Eric J. Bergman 2023-10-17 $42,568,000
11697887 Multi-compartment electrochemical replenishment cell Nolan L. Zimmerman, Charles Sharbono, Gregory J. Wilson, Paul R. McHugh, Paul Van Valkenburg +1 more 2023-07-11 $39,838,000
11686005 Electroplating systems and methods with increased metal ion concentrations Kwan Wook Roh, Charles Sharbono 2023-06-27 $59,089,000
11578422 Electroplating system Paul R. McHugh, Gregory J. Wilson, John L. Klocke, Paul Van Valkenburg, Eric J. Bergman +5 more 2023-02-14 $35,617,000
11551942 Methods and apparatus for cleaning a substrate after processing Manoj A. Gajendra, Mahadev Joshi, Arvind Thiyagarajan, Jon C. Farr 2023-01-10 $38,290,000
11550224 Apparatus for post exposure bake Gregory J. Wilson, Viachslav Babayan 2023-01-10 $38,290,000
11352711 Fluid recovery in semiconductor processing Sam Lee, Eric J. Bergman 2022-06-07 $46,649,000
11274377 Seal apparatus for an electroplating system Manjunatha Vishwanatha Adagoor, Karthikeyan Balaraman, Karthick Vasu, Shailesh Chouriya 2022-03-15 $44,583,000
11268208 Electroplating system Paul R. McHugh, Gregory J. Wilson, John L. Klocke, Paul Van Valkenburg, Eric J. Bergman +5 more 2022-03-08 $69,139,000
11262662 Post exposure processing apparatus Viachslav Babayan, Ludovic Godet, Robert B. Moore 2022-03-01 $41,046,000
11241718 Cleaning components and methods in a plating system Joseph Antony Jonathan, Jason Rye, James Emery Brown, Gregory J. Wilson, Eric J. Bergman +2 more 2022-02-08 $81,917,000
11214890 Cleaning components and methods in a plating system 2022-01-04 $136,975,000
10845715 Post exposure processing apparatus Viachslav Babayan, Ludovic Godet, Robert B. Moore 2020-11-24 $38,395,000
10840104 Controlled etch of nitride features Eric J. Bergman, John L. Klocke, Charles Sharbono, Paul R. McHugh 2020-11-17 $41,112,000
10754252 Apparatus for post exposure bake Gregory J. Wilson, Viachslav Babayan 2020-08-25 $29,525,000
10401742 Post exposure processing apparatus Viachslav Babayan, Ludovic Godet, Robert B. Moore 2019-09-03 $20,988,000
10240248 Adaptive electric field shielding in an electroplating processor using agitator geometry and motion control Paul Van Valkenburg, Robert Mikkola, John L. Klocke, Paul R. McHugh, Gregory J. Wilson +1 more 2019-03-26 $22,929,000
10191379 Removing photoresist from a wafer Paul R. McHugh, John L. Klocke, Eric J. Bergman, Stuart Crane, Gregory J. Wilson 2019-01-29 $20,450,000
9984867 Systems and methods for rinsing and drying substrates Ekaterina A. Mikhaylichenko, Brian J. Brown, Vincent Steffan Francischetti 2018-05-29 $37,048,000
9964863 Post exposure processing apparatus Viachslav Babayan, Ludovic Godet, Robert B. Moore 2018-05-08 $79,246,000
9958782 Apparatus for post exposure bake Gregory J. Wilson, Viachslav Babayan 2018-05-01 $18,276,000
9937802 Systems and methods for determining a duty cycle for a variable voltage converter Daniel Richard Luedtke, Yulei Chen, Fazal Urrahman Syed, Wei Xu 2018-04-10 $4,546,000
9864283 Apparatus and methods for photomask backside cleaning Jason Rye 2018-01-09 $16,545,000