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Todd Hylton

4W4Wave: 11 patents #2 of 5Top 40%
IBM: 5 patents #18,733 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: #3,078 of 32,062 inventorsTop 10%
California: #27,156 of 386,348 inventorsTop 8%
Overall (All Time): #209,500 of 4,157,543Top 6%
21 Patents All Time

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–21 of 21 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
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
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
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
5629682 Magnetic recorder having MR read and inductive write capability Richard Donald Umphress 1997-05-13
5492775 Barium ferrite thin film for longitudinal recording Richard H. Ahlert, James K. Howard, Michael Andrew Parker, Muhammad Inayet Ullah 1996-02-20
5476680 Method for manufacturing granular multilayer mangetoresistive sensor Kevin R. Coffey, James K. Howard, Michael Andrew Parker 1995-12-19
5452163 Multilayer magnetoresistive sensor Kevin R. Coffey, Robert E. Fontana, Jr., James K. Howard, Michael Andrew Parker, Ching Hwa Tsang 1995-09-19