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John G. Richards — 18 Patents

CHChipscale: 7 patents #2 of 7Top 30%
Micron: 6 patents #2,148 of 6,374Top 35%
QIQuantic Industries: 1 patents #21 of 38Top 60%
Overall (All Time): #245,716 of 4,157,543Top 6%
18 Patents All Time
John G. Richards has been granted 18 US patents while listed as an inventor at Chipscale. The first was granted in 1988 and the most recent in March 2002. John G. Richards ranks #245,716 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.9%). Patent records list John G. Richards in Pukekohe, CA, NZ.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1988 to 2002Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 1995.peak 41988: 3 patents19881989: 1 patents19891994: 1 patents19941995: 4 patents19951996: 2 patents19961997: 2 patents19971998: 1 patents19981999: 2 patents19992000: 1 patents20002002: 1 patents2002

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–18 of 18 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
6355981 Wafer fabrication of inside-wrapped contacts for electronic devices Donald P. Richmond, II, Wendell B. Sander 2002-03-12
6121119 Resistor fabrication Hector Flores 2000-09-19
5912427 Semiconductor bridge explosive device Kenneth E. Willis, Martin Richman, William David Fahey, David Whang 1999-06-15
5904496 Wafer fabrication of inside-wrapped contacts for electronic devices Donald P. Richmond, II, Wendell B. Sander 1999-05-18
5789817 Electrical apparatus with a metallic layer coupled to a lower region of a substrate and a metallic layer coupled to a lower region of a semiconductor device Hector Flores, Wendell B. Sander 1998-08-04
5656547 Method for making a leadless surface mounted device with wrap-around flange interface contacts Wendell B. Sander, Donald P. Richmond, II, Hector Flores 1997-08-12
5592022 Fabricating a semiconductor with an insulative coating Hector Flores, Wendell B. Sander 1997-01-07
5557149 Semiconductor fabrication with contact processing for wrap-around flange interface Wendell B. Sander, Donald P. Richmond, II, Hector Flores 1996-09-17
5521420 Fabricating a semiconductor with an insulative coating Hector Flores, Wendell B. Sander 1996-05-28 $49,079,000
5455187 Method of making a semiconductor device with a metallic layer coupled to a lower region of a substrate and metallic layer coupled to a lower region of a semiconductor device Hector Flores 1995-10-03 $86,831,000
5444009 Fabricating a semiconductor with an insulative coating Hector Flores, Wendell B. Sander 1995-08-22 $43,284,000
5441898 Fabricating a semiconductor with an insulative coating Hector Flores, Wendell B. Sander 1995-08-15 $81,546,000
5403729 Fabricating a semiconductor with an insulative coating Hector Flores, Wendell B. Sander 1995-04-04 $42,848,000
5280194 Electrical apparatus with a metallic layer coupled to a lower region of a substrate and metallic layer coupled to a lower region of a semiconductor device Hector Flores, Wendell B. Sander 1994-01-18 $9,311,000
4811080 Monolithic pin diode and method for its manufacture 1989-03-07
D297912 Gate gudgeon 1988-10-04
4746398 Gallium arsenide planar tunnel diode method Hormoz M. Motamedi, Hector Flores 1988-05-24
4738933 Monolithic PIN diode and method for its manufacture 1988-04-19