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Billy W. Ward — 43 Patents

ALAlis: 20 patents #1 of 14Top 8%
CGCarl Zeiss Microscopy Gmbh: 9 patents #44 of 564Top 8%
Micron: 7 patents #1,878 of 6,374Top 30%
VAVarian: 2 patents #151 of 684Top 25%
CGCarl Zeiss Nts Gmbh: 2 patents #17 of 103Top 20%
FEFei: 1 patents #375 of 681Top 60%
FHFsi Holdings: 1 patents #10 of 21Top 50%
Boyce, LA: #1 of 11 inventorsTop 10%
Louisiana: #49 of 10,876 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #69,380 of 4,157,543Top 2%
43 Patents All Time
Billy W. Ward has been granted 43 US patents while listed as an inventor at Alis. The first was granted in 1984 and the most recent in January 2016. Billy W. Ward ranks #69,380 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.7%). Patent records list Billy W. Ward in Boyce, LA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 43 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9236225 Ion sources, systems and methods John A. Notte, IV, Louis S. Farkas, III, Randall G. Percival, Raymond Hill, Klaus Edinger +3 more 2016-01-12
9159527 Systems and methods for a gas field ionization source Lou Farkas, John A. Notte, IV, Randall G. Percival 2015-10-13
9123502 Scan method 2015-09-01
9029765 Ion sources, systems and methods Richard Comunale, Alexander Groholski, John A. Notte, IV, Randall G. Percival 2015-05-12
9012867 Ion sources, systems and methods John A. Notte, IV, Louis S. Farkas, III, Randall G. Percival, Raymond Hill, Klaus Edinger +3 more 2015-04-21
8748845 Ion sources, systems and methods John A. Notte, IV, Louis S. Farkas, III, Randall G. Percival, Raymond Hill, Klaus Edinger +3 more 2014-06-10
8633451 Ion sources, systems and methods Colin August Sanford, John A. Notte, IV, Alexander Groholski, Mark D. DiManna 2014-01-21
8558192 Gas delivery system with voltage gradient for an ion microscope John A. Notte, IV, Randall G. Percival 2013-10-15
8461557 Ion sources, systems and methods Richard Comunale, Alexander Groholski, John A. Notte, IV, Randall G. Percival 2013-06-11
8227753 Multiple current charged particle methods John A. Notte, IV 2012-07-24
8110814 Ion sources, systems and methods John A. Notte, IV, Louis S. Farkas, III, Randall G. Percival, Raymond Hill, Klaus Edinger +3 more 2012-02-07
8013300 Sample decontamination Lewis A. Stern, Louis S. Farkas, III, William DiNatale, John A. Notte, IV, Lawrence Scipioni 2011-09-06
7786451 Ion sources, systems and methods John A. Notte, IV, Louis S. Farkas, III, Randall G. Percival, Raymond Hill, Alexander Groholski +1 more 2010-08-31
7786452 Ion sources, systems and methods John A. Notte, IV, Louis S. Farkas, III, Randall G. Percival, Raymond Hill 2010-08-31
7601953 Systems and methods for a gas field ion microscope Louis S. Farkas, III, John A. Notte, IV, Randall G. Percival 2009-10-13
7557361 Ion sources, systems and methods John A. Notte, IV, Louis S. Farkas, III, Randall G. Percival, Raymond Hill 2009-07-07
7557360 Ion sources, systems and methods John A. Notte, IV, Louis S. Farkas, III, Randall G. Percival, Raymond Hill, Lars Markwort +1 more 2009-07-07
7557359 Ion sources, systems and methods John A. Notte, IV, Louis S. Farkas, III, Randall G. Percival, Raymond Hill 2009-07-07
7557358 Ion sources, systems and methods John A. Notte, IV, Louis S. Farkas, III, Randall G. Percival, Raymond Hill 2009-07-07
7554097 Ion sources, systems and methods John A. Notte, IV, Louis S. Farkas, III, Randall G. Percival, Raymond Hill 2009-06-30
7554096 Ion sources, systems and methods John A. Notte, IV, Louis S. Farkas, III, Randall G. Percival, Raymond Hill 2009-06-30
7521693 Ion sources, systems and methods John A. Notte, IV, Louis S. Farkas, III, Randall G. Percival, Raymond Hill, Shawn McVey +1 more 2009-04-21
7518122 Ion sources, systems and methods John A. Notte, IV, Louis S. Farkas, III, Randall G. Percival, Raymond Hill, Ulrich Mantz +1 more 2009-04-14
7511280 Ion sources, systems and methods John A. Notte, IV, Louis S. Farkas, III, Randall G. Percival, Raymond Hill 2009-03-31
7511279 Ion sources, systems and methods John A. Notte, IV, Louis S. Farkas, III, Randall G. Percival, Raymond Hill 2009-03-31