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William Schaffer — 8 Patents

Applied Materials: 4 patents #2,532 of 7,310Top 35%
IBM: 1 patents #44,878 of 70,183Top 65%
FSFirst Solar: 1 patents #201 of 324Top 65%
PSPrimestar Solar: 1 patents #15 of 28Top 55%
Atascadero, CA: #16 of 161 inventorsTop 10%
California: #74,834 of 386,348 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #600,572 of 4,157,543Top 15%
8 Patents All Time
William Schaffer has been granted 8 US patents while listed as an inventor at Applied Materials. The first was granted in 1987 and the most recent in November 2020. William Schaffer ranks #600,572 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 14.4%). Patent records list William Schaffer in Atascadero, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–8 of 8 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10840100 Method of thermal processing structures formed on a substrate Paul G. Carey, Aaron Muir Hunter, Dean Jennings, Abhilash J. Mayur, Stephen Moffatt +2 more 2020-11-17 $41,112,000
10141191 Method of thermal processing structures formed on a substrate Paul G. Carey, Aaron Muir Hunter, Dean Jennings, Abhilash J. Mayur, Stephen Moffatt +2 more 2018-11-27 $52,277,000
9555502 Dual lasers for removing glass-side debris during the manufacture of thin film photovoltaic devices Scott Daniel Feldman-Peabody 2017-01-31 $10,911,000
8518838 Method of thermal processing structures formed on a substrate Paul G. Carey, Aaron Muir Hunter, Dean Jennings, Abhilash J. Mayur, Stephen Moffatt +2 more 2013-08-27 $25,627,000
8377737 Methods of short wavelength laser scribing of a thin film photovoltaic device Luke Wayne Jacobson, Scott L. French, Eric Boese, Robert Andrew Garber 2013-02-19
7569463 Method of thermal processing structures formed on a substrate Ajit Balakrishna, Paul G. Carey, Dean Jennings, Abhilash J. Mayur, Stephen Moffatt +1 more 2009-08-04 $13,023,000
6103539 Method and system for nondestructive layer defect detection Jenn Liu 2000-08-15
4669076 Optical disk drive apparatus with means for accurate disk positioning Walter E. Broom, Michael David Henry 1987-05-26 $47,285,000