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Norm Gitis — 14 Patents

CTCenter For Tribology: 6 patents #1 of 4Top 25%
NENevmet: 6 patents #1 of 10Top 10%
EAE.I. Du Pont De Nemours And: 1 patents #6,713 of 12,129Top 60%
Cupertino, CA: #1,179 of 6,989 inventorsTop 20%
California: #43,920 of 386,348 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #332,869 of 4,157,543Top 9%
14 Patents All Time
Norm Gitis has been granted 14 US patents while listed as an inventor at Center For Tribology. The first was granted in 1998 and the most recent in October 2006. Norm Gitis ranks #332,869 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 8.0%). Patent records list Norm Gitis in Cupertino, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1998 to 2006Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2003.peak 41998: 1 patents19982001: 2 patents20012002: 3 patents20022003: 4 patents20032004: 1 patents20042005: 1 patents20052006: 2 patents2006

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–14 of 14 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7118576 Multiportal device with linked cannulae and method for percutaneous surgery Todd Alamin, Aleksandr Meyman, Oleg Shulepov, Mikhail Faynberg 2006-10-10
7118577 Multiportal device with linked segmented cannulae and method for percutaneous surgery Todd Alamin, Aleksandr Meyman, Oleg Shulepov, Mikhail Faynberg 2006-10-10
6969392 Multiportal device and method for percutaneous surgery Todd Alamin, Aleksandr Meyman, Oleg Shulepov, Mikhail Faynberg 2005-11-29
6702646 Method and apparatus for monitoring polishing plate condition Aleksandr Meyman, Michael Vinogradov, Mikhail Faynberg, Vlad Dorfman 2004-03-09
6585562 Method and apparatus for polishing control with signal peak analysis Michael Vinogradov-Nurenberg 2003-07-01
6573836 Method and apparatus for detecting the presence of powdered material in envelopes Rashid Mavliev, Alex Meyman, Oleg Shulepov 2003-06-03
6559108 Perfluoropolyether compounds as magnetic media lubricants Jon Lee Howell, David G. Jones, Anthony Joseph Huffmann, Charles Gao 2003-05-06 $16,911,000
6502455 Microscratch test indenter and method of microscratch testing Michael Vinogradov 2003-01-07
6494765 Method and apparatus for controlled polishing Michael Vinogradov 2002-12-17
6418776 Method and apparatus for measuring friction and wear characteristics of materials Michael Vinogradov, Vlad Dorfman 2002-07-16
6363798 Method and device for measuring forces Michael Vinogradov, Vlad Dorfman 2002-04-02
6324918 Bidirectional force sensor Michael Vinogradov, Vlad Dorfman 2001-12-04
6257953 Method and apparatus for controlled polishing Michael Vinogradov 2001-07-10
5795990 Method and apparatus for measuring friction and wear characteristics of materials Leo Levinson, Vlad Dorfman, Michael Vinogradov 1998-08-18