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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Sept 30, 2025
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TLTokyo Electron Limited: 88 patents #14 of 5,567Top 1%
IBM: 3 patents #26,272 of 70,183Top 40%
USUniversity Of Houston System: 1 patents #226 of 554Top 45%
TITexas Instruments: 1 patents #7,357 of 12,488Top 60%
Mabank, TX: #1 of 56 inventorsTop 2%
Texas: #519 of 125,132 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #17,218 of 4,157,543Top 1%
92 Patents All Time

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 26–50 of 92 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
9396900 Radio frequency (RF) power coupling system utilizing multiple RF power coupling elements for control of plasma properties Barton Lane, Peter L. G. Ventzek, Merritt Funk, Jianping Zhao, Radha Sundararajan 2016-07-19
9301383 Low electron temperature, edge-density enhanced, surface wave plasma (SWP) processing method and apparatus Jianping Zhao, Merritt Funk, Radha Sundararajan 2016-03-29
9290848 Anisotropic etch of copper using passivation Ying Zhang 2016-03-22
9288890 Method and apparatus for providing an anisotropic and mono-energetic neutral beam by non-ambipolar electron plasma Merritt Funk, Zhiying Chen 2016-03-15
9209032 Electric pressure systems for control of plasma properties and uniformity Jianping Zhao, Merritt Funk, Zhiying Chen 2015-12-08
9151286 Processing chamber integrated pressure control Merritt Funk 2015-10-06
9111727 Plasma tuning rods in microwave resonator plasma sources Jianping Zhao, Merritt Funk, Toshihiko Iwao, Peter L. G. Ventzek 2015-08-18
9111873 Low profile magnetic filter Jianping Zhao, Merritt Funk, Zhiying Chen 2015-08-18
9087677 Methods of electrical signaling in an ion energy analyzer Merritt Funk, Barton Lane, Jianping Zhao, Radha Sundararajan 2015-07-21
8968588 Low electron temperature microwave surface-wave plasma (SWP) processing method and apparatus Jianping Zhao, Vincent M. Donnelly, Demetre J. Economou, Merritt Funk, Radha Sundararajan 2015-03-03
8883024 Using vacuum ultra-violet (VUV) data in radio frequency (RF) sources Jianping Zhao 2014-11-11
8877080 Using vacuum ultra-violet (VUV) data in microwave sources Jianping Zhao 2014-11-04
8847159 Ion energy analyzer Barton Lane, Merritt Funk, Jianping Zhao, Radha Sundararajan 2014-09-30
8816281 Ion energy analyzer and methods of manufacturing the same Merritt Funk, Barton Lane, Jianping Zhao, Radha Sundararajan 2014-08-26
8808496 Plasma tuning rods in microwave processing systems Jianping Zhao, Merritt Funk, Toshihiko Iwao, Peter L. G. Ventzek 2014-08-19
8747610 Plasma source pumping and gas injection baffle Merritt Funk 2014-06-10
8721833 Variable capacitance chamber component incorporating ferroelectric materials and methods of manufacturing and using thereof Zhiying Chen, Jianping Zhao, Merritt Funk, Radha Sundararajan 2014-05-13
8669705 Stable surface wave plasma source Jianping Zhao, Ronald Victor Bravenec, Merritt Funk 2014-03-11
8501499 Adaptive recipe selector Radha Sundararajan, Merritt Funk, Barton Lane 2013-08-06
8486798 Variable capacitance chamber component incorporating a semiconductor junction and methods of manufacturing and using thereof Zhiying Chen, Jianping Zhao, Merritt Funk, Radha Sundararajan 2013-07-16
8460567 Method and system for etching a MEM device 2013-06-11
8415884 Stable surface wave plasma source Jianping Zhao, Ronald Victor Bravenec, Merritt Funk 2013-04-09
8409459 Hollow cathode device and method for using the device to control the uniformity of a plasma process Kazuki Denpoh, Peter L. G. Ventzek, Lin Xu 2013-04-02
8343371 Apparatus and method for improving photoresist properties using a quasi-neutral beam Merritt Funk, Radha Sundararajan 2013-01-01
8323521 Plasma generation controlled by gravity-induced gas-diffusion separation (GIGDS) techniques Jianping Zhao, Merritt Funk, Toshihisa Nozawa 2012-12-04