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Todd Hylton — 21 Patents

4W4Wave: 11 patents #2 of 5Top 40%
IBM: 5 patents #18,770 of 70,183Top 30%
KRKaufman & Robinson: 2 patents #7 of 13Top 55%
VIVeeco Instruments: 2 patents #99 of 323Top 35%
BRBrain: 1 patents #41 of 92Top 45%
San Jose, CA: #3,111 of 32,062 inventorsTop 10%
California: #27,449 of 386,348 inventorsTop 8%
Overall (All Time): #201,324 of 4,157,543Top 5%
21 Patents All Time
Todd Hylton has been granted 21 US patents while listed as an inventor at 4Wave. The first was granted in 1995 and the most recent in December 2017. Todd Hylton ranks #201,324 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.8%). Patent records list Todd Hylton in San Jose, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1995 to 2017Bar chart with a peak of 7 patents in 2002.peak 71995: 2 patents19951996: 1 patents19961997: 1 patents19972000: 1 patents20002002: 7 patents20022003: 1 patents20032004: 5 patents20042005: 1 patents20052008: 1 patents20082017: 1 patents2017

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–21 of 21 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9849588 Apparatus and methods for remotely controlling robotic devices Eugene Izhikevich, Patryk Laurent, Csaba Petre, Vadim Polonichko 2017-12-26
7316764 System and method for performing sputter etching using independent ion and electron sources and a substrate biased with an a-symmetric bi-polar DC pulse signal David A. Baldwin 2008-01-08
6843891 Apparatus for sputter deposition James R. Kahn, Harold R. Kaufman, Viacheslav V. Zhurin, David A. Baldwin 2005-01-18 $5,450,000
6819871 Multi-channel optical filter and multiplexer formed from stacks of thin-film layers David A. Baldwin 2004-11-16
6723209 System and method for performing thin film deposition or chemical treatment using an energetic flux of neutral reactive molecular fragments, atoms or radicals David A. Baldwin 2004-04-20
6689255 System and method for making thin-film structures using a stepped profile mask David A. Baldwin 2004-02-10
6682634 Apparatus for sputter deposition James R. Kahn, Harold R. Kaufman, Viacheslav V. Zhurin, David A. Baldwin 2004-01-27 $8,192,000
6679976 System and method for performing sputter deposition with multiple targets using independent ion and electron sources and independent target biasing with DC pulse signals David A. Baldwin 2004-01-20
6610179 System and method for controlling deposition thickness using a mask with a shadow that varies with respect to a target David A. Baldwin 2003-08-26
6488821 System and method for performing sputter deposition using a divergent ion beam source and a rotating substrate David A. Baldwin 2002-12-03
6419803 System and method for making thin-film structures using a stepped profile mask David A. Baldwin 2002-07-16
6419802 System and method for controlling deposition thickness by synchronously varying a sputtering rate of a target with respect to a position of a rotating substrate David A. Baldwin 2002-07-16
6402901 System and method for performing sputter deposition using a spherical geometry David A. Baldwin 2002-06-11
6402900 System and method for performing sputter deposition using ion sources, targets and a substrate arranged about the faces of a cube David A. Baldwin 2002-06-11
6402904 System and method for performing sputter deposition using independent ion and electron sources and a target biased with an a-symmetric bi-polar DC pulse signal David A. Baldwin 2002-06-11
6402905 System and method for controlling deposition thickness using a mask with a shadow that varies along a radius of a substrate David A. Baldwin 2002-06-11
6016241 Magnetoresistive sensor utilizing a granular magnetoresistive layer Kevin R. Coffey, James K. Howard, Michael Andrew Parker 2000-01-18 $42,053,000
5629682 Magnetic recorder having MR read and inductive write capability Richard Donald Umphress 1997-05-13 $10,594,000
5492775 Barium ferrite thin film for longitudinal recording Richard H. Ahlert, James K. Howard, Michael Andrew Parker, Muhammad Inayet Ullah 1996-02-20 $16,018,000
5476680 Method for manufacturing granular multilayer mangetoresistive sensor Kevin R. Coffey, James K. Howard, Michael Andrew Parker 1995-12-19 $23,715,000
5452163 Multilayer magnetoresistive sensor Kevin R. Coffey, Robert E. Fontana, Jr., James K. Howard, Michael Andrew Parker, Ching Hwa Tsang 1995-09-19 $8,701,000