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Advanced Technology Laboratories
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Advanced Technology Laboratories
— 99 Patents
Rank
(All Time):
#6,970
of
105,732
Top 7%
105
inventors
99
Patents All Time
Patents per Year
Patents granted per year, 1980 to 2011
Bar chart with a peak of 11 patents in 1995.
peak 11
1980: 1 patents
1980
1983: 2 patents
1984: 7 patents
1984
1985: 7 patents
1986: 8 patents
1986
1987: 2 patents
1988: 1 patents
1988
1989: 4 patents
1990: 1 patents
1990
1991: 2 patents
1992: 5 patents
1992
1993: 7 patents
1994: 5 patents
1994
1995: 11 patents
1996: 9 patents
1996
1997: 10 patents
1998: 11 patents
1998
1999: 3 patents
2000: 2 patents
2000
2011: 1 patents
2011
Top Inventors at Advanced Technology Laboratories
All Time
Showing
1–50
of
105
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Jeffry E. Powers
10
2
Juin-Jet Hwang
8
3
Jens U. Quistgaard
6
3
Roy B. Peterson
6
#5
Gary Allen Schwartz
5
#5
Jacques Souquet
5
#5
Joseph L. Ungar
5
#5
Joseph L. Ungari
5
#9
David N. Roundhill
4
#9
David Rust
4
#9
Frank B. Oaks
4
#9
Helen Routh
4
#9
Lauren S. Pflugrath
4
#9
LeRoy J. LaCelle
4
#9
Norio Harui
4
#9
Perry Kaminski
4
#9
Ronald Elvin Daigle
4
#18
Clifford R. Cooley
3
#18
David Simpson
3
#18
Deborah K. Imling
3
#18
Donald G. Killam
3
#18
Gary J. Selke
3
#18
George Gruner
3
#18
Larry Augustine
3
#18
Marshall Robinson
3
#18
Philip Keller
3
#18
Robert R. McAusland
3
#18
Ronald E. McKeighen
3
#18
Thanasis Loupas
3
#18
Timothy F. Nordgren
3
#31
Aline Laure Criton
2
#31
Brent Stephen Robinson
2
#31
Donn D. Franklin
2
#31
Edward J. Parker
2
#31
Eugene A. Larson
2
#31
Gernot R. K. Hilse
2
#31
Gregg W. Frey
2
#31
John Douglas Fraser
2
#31
Kip R. Nelson
2
#31
Loc Nguyen
2
#31
Mikhail Starosta
2
#31
Robert R. Entrekin
2
#31
Sherry Powell
2
#44
Richard D. Tabbutt
1
#44
Ronald E. McKeighan
1
#44
Aaron S. Waitz
1
#44
Ascher Shmulewitz
1
#44
Bruce Adrian Kincy
1
#44
Brian Moist
1
#44
Calvin R. Zimmerman
1
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