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US 1,064,005 · App. 29/848,745 · Granted Feb 25, 2025

Grounding ring of a process kit for semiconductor substrate processing

Inventors: Abhishek Chowdhury (Bangalore, IN); Nataraj Bhaskar Rao (Bangalore, IN); Edwin C. Suarez (Pleasanton, CA); Harisha Sathyanarayana (Bangalore, IN); Diego Ramiro Puente Sotomayor (Phoenix, AZ); Qanit Takmeel (Mesa, AZ); Mohammad Kamruzzaman Chowdhury (Phoenix, AZ); Arun Chakravarthy Chakravarthy (Tamil Nadu, IN)
Assignee: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.
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Patent No.
US 1,064,005
App. No.
29/848,745
Granted
Feb 25, 2025
Kind
S1
Claims (1)

The ornamental design for a grounding ring of a process kit for semiconductor substrate processing, as shown and described.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 13, 2022
From: CHOWDHURY, ABHISHEK; BHASKAR RAO, NATARAJ; SUAREZ, EDWIN C.; SATHYANARAYANA, HARISHA; PUENTE SOTOMAYOR, DIEGO RAMIRO; TAKMEEL, QANIT; CHOWDHURY, MOHAMMAD KAMRUZZAMAN; CHAKRAVARTHY, ARUN CHAKRAVARTHY
To: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.
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