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David E. Weldon — 27 Patents

APAplex: 7 patents #1 of 32Top 4%
OSOntrak Systems: 7 patents #4 of 45Top 9%
MVMosel Vitelic: 5 patents #50 of 482Top 15%
PRPrysm: 2 patents #25 of 52Top 50%
Lam Research: 1 patents #1,379 of 2,128Top 65%
Gilroy, CA: #41 of 527 inventorsTop 8%
California: #19,967 of 386,348 inventorsTop 6%
Overall (All Time): #142,059 of 4,157,543Top 4%
27 Patents All Time
David E. Weldon has been granted 27 US patents while listed as an inventor at Aplex. The first was granted in 1984 and the most recent in September 2025. David E. Weldon ranks #142,059 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.4%). Patent records list David E. Weldon in Gilroy, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1984 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2000.peak 51984: 1 patents19841996: 3 patents1997: 2 patents19971998: 2 patents1999: 2 patents19992000: 5 patents2001: 5 patents20012002: 1 patents2004: 1 patents20042005: 1 patents2018: 1 patents20182020: 1 patents2025: 2 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 27 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12403968 Vehicles including truck assemblies configured to selectively decouple a wheel of the truck assembly Connor James Anderson 2025-09-02
12384261 Vehicle charging systems and methods of positioning a charging cable to engage a charging adapter Jos Goble, Connor James Anderson 2025-08-12
10674123 Large display systems with screen tension adjustability Scot C. Fairchild 2020-06-02
10063817 Large display systems with screen tension adjustability Scot C. Fairchild 2018-08-28
6875085 Polishing system including a hydrostatic fluid bearing support Shu-Hsin Kao, Tim H. Huynh 2005-04-05
6726429 Local store for a wafer processing station James Sackett, H. Alexander Anderson 2004-04-27
6454641 Hydrostatic fluid bearing support with adjustable inlet heights Shu-Hsin Kao, Tim H. Huynh 2002-09-24
6322429 Conditioner assembly and a conditioner back support for a chemical mechanical polishing apparatus Ethan C. Wilson, James A. Allen, Gregory C. Lee, Linh X. Can, Jeffrey M. L. Fontana +2 more 2001-11-27
6315857 Polishing pad shaping and patterning Tsungnan Cheng, Ethan C. Wilson, Shou-Sung Chang, Gregory C. Lee, Huey-Ming Tzeng +3 more 2001-11-13
6267655 Retaining ring for wafer polishing Shu-Hsin Kao, Michael A. Leach, Charles J. Regan, Linh X. Can 2001-07-31
6244945 Polishing system including a hydrostatic fluid bearing support Shu-Hsin Kao, Tim H. Huynh 2001-06-12
6231427 Linear polisher and method for semiconductor wafer planarization Homayoun Talieh 2001-05-15 $24,907,000
6159083 Polishing head for a chemical mechanical polishing apparatus Gregory A. Appel, Charles J. Regan, Shou-Sung Chang, Gregory C. Lee 2000-12-12
6126527 Seal for polishing belt center support having a single movable sealed cavity Shu-Hsin Kao, William F. Lapson, Charles J. Regan 2000-10-03
6086456 Polishing method using a hydrostatic fluid bearing support having fluctuating fluid flow Shu-Hsin Kao, Tim H. Huynh 2000-07-11
6062959 Polishing system including a hydrostatic fluid bearing support Shu-Hsin Kao, Tim H. Huynh 2000-05-16
6042457 Conditioner assembly for a chemical mechanical polishing apparatus Ethan C. Wilson, James A. Allen, Gregory C. Lee, Linh X. Can, Jeffrey M. L. Fontana +2 more 2000-03-28
6000997 Temperature regulation in a CMP process Shu-Hsin Kao, Shou-Sung Chang, Huey-Ming Tzeng, Gregory C. Lee, Greg Simon +5 more 1999-12-14
5980368 Polishing tool having a sealed fluid chamber for support of polishing pad Shou-Sung Chang, Shu-Hsin Kao 1999-11-09
5803799 Wafer polishing head Konstantin Volodarsky 1998-09-08
5800248 Control of chemical-mechanical polishing rate across a substrate surface Anil K. Pant, Douglas W. Young, Anthony Meyer, Konstantin Volodarsky 1998-09-01
5692947 Linear polisher and method for semiconductor wafer planarization Homayoun Talieh 1997-12-02
5593344 Wafer polishing machine with fluid bearings and drive systems Boguslaw Nagorski, Homayoun Talieh 1997-01-14 $2,497,000
5575707 Polishing pad cluster for polishing a semiconductor wafer Homayoun Talieh 1996-11-19 $2,122,000
5571044 Wafer holder for semiconductor wafer polishing machine Hooman Bolandi 1996-11-05 $1,938,000