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Bret P. Chen

Examiner (ID: 18645, Phone: (571)272-1417 , Office: P/1715 )

Most Active Art Unit
1715
Art Unit(s)
1715, 1762, 1718, 1792, 1112, 1754
Total Applications
2269
Issued Applications
1767
Pending Applications
183
Abandoned Applications
348

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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18/146868
Formation of SiOC thin films Dec 26, 2022 Issued
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18/146043
Area selective nanoscale-thin layer deposition via precise functional group lithography Dec 22, 2022 Issued
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18/721457
CONFORMAL SILICON OXIDE DEPOSITION USING AMINOSILANE AND CHLOROSILANE PRECURSORS Dec 18, 2022 Pending
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18/083236
HYBRID CHEMICAL AND PHYSICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION OF TRANSITION-METAL-ALLOYED PIEZOELECTRIC SEMICONDUCTOR FILMS Dec 15, 2022 Pending
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18/729093
Undercoating coverage and resistance control for ESCS of substrate processing systems Dec 12, 2022 Issued
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18/077225
Electrochemical reduction of surface metal oxides Dec 6, 2022 Issued
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18/074335
Method to deposit metal cap for interconnect Dec 1, 2022 Issued
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18/072711
Methods of using a segmented showerhead for uniform delivery of multiple pre-cursors Nov 30, 2022 Issued
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17/990779
Method and system for forming a conformal silicon carbon nitride layer and structure formed using same Nov 20, 2022 Issued
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17/982220
Methods of preparing molybdenum-containing films Nov 6, 2022 Issued
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18/052142
VAPOR DEPOSITION OF THIN FILMS COMPRISING GOLD Nov 1, 2022 Abandoned
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18/692836
APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING DOPED DIAMOND LAYERS Oct 20, 2022 Pending
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18/047970
Method of forming compound structure with 2-dimensional structure Oct 18, 2022 Issued
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18/701169
ALKOXYSILANES AND DENSE ORGANOSILICA FILMS MADE THEREFROM Oct 10, 2022 Pending
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17/938335
Particle suppression method Oct 5, 2022 Issued
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17/937374
Methods for improved biocompatibility for human implanted medical devices Sep 29, 2022 Issued
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17/930397
Ex situ coating of chamber components for semiconductor processing Sep 6, 2022 Issued
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17/897311
Methods for depositing material within a gap using an inhibitor Aug 28, 2022 Issued
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17/879048
Substrate processing method, method of manufacturing semiconductor device, substrate processing apparatus and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium Aug 1, 2022 Issued
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17/814653
Methods for forming low resistivity tungsten features Jul 24, 2022 Issued
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