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John A. Gurley — 27 Patents

DIDigital Instruments: 26 patents #2 of 25Top 8%
VIVeeco Instruments: 1 patents #165 of 323Top 55%
Lompoc, CA: #66 of 2,245 inventorsTop 3%
California: #19,967 of 386,348 inventorsTop 6%
Overall (All Time): #142,059 of 4,157,543Top 4%
27 Patents All Time
John A. Gurley has been granted 27 US patents while listed as an inventor at Digital Instruments. The first was granted in 1989 and the most recent in June 2001. John A. Gurley ranks #142,059 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.4%). Patent records list John A. Gurley in Lompoc, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 27 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
RE37203 Feedback control for scanning tunnel microscopes Virgil B. Elings 2001-06-05
RE36488 Tapping atomic force microscope with phase or frequency detection Virgil B. Elings 2000-01-11
5898106 Method and apparatus for obtaining improved vertical metrology measurements Kenneth Babcock, Virgil B. Elings, Kevin Kjoller 1999-04-27
5705814 Scanning probe microscope having automatic probe exchange and alignment James M. Young, Craig Prater, David Grigg, Charles Meyer, William H. Hertzog +1 more 1998-01-06
5519212 Tapping atomic force microscope with phase or frequency detection Virgil B. Elings 1996-05-21
5418363 Scanning probe microscope using stored data for vertical probe positioning Virgil B. Elings 1995-05-23
5415027 Jumping probe microscope Virgil B. Elings 1995-05-16
5412980 Tapping atomic force microscope Virgil B. Elings 1995-05-09
5329808 Atomic force microscope Virgil B. Elings 1994-07-19
5314254 Stiffness enhancer for movable stage assembly Frank Yashar, Charles Meyer 1994-05-24
5308974 Scanning probe microscope using stored data for vertical probe positioning Virgil B. Elings 1994-05-03
5306919 Positioning device for scanning probe microscopes Virgil B. Elings 1994-04-26
5266801 Jumping probe microscope Virgil B. Elings 1993-11-30
5253516 Atomic force microscope for small samples having dual-mode operating capability Virgil B. Elings 1993-10-19
5237859 Atomic force microscope Virgil B. Elings, Peter Maivald 1993-08-24
RE34331 Feedback control for scanning tunnel microscopes Virgil B. Elings 1993-08-03
5229606 Jumping probe microscope Virgil B. Elings 1993-07-20
5224376 Atomic force microscope Virgil B. Elings, Peter Maivald 1993-07-06
5204531 Method of adjusting the size of the area scanned by a scanning probe Virgil B. Elings 1993-04-20
5198715 Scanner for scanning probe microscopes having reduced Z-axis non-linearity Virgil B. Elings 1993-03-30
5189906 Compact atomic force microscope Virgil B. Elings, Dror Sarid 1993-03-02
5077473 Drift compensation for scanning probe microscopes using an enhanced probe positioning system Virgil B. Elings, Mark R. Rodgers 1991-12-31
5066858 Scanning tunneling microscopes with correction for coupling effects Virgil B. Elings 1991-11-19
5051646 Method of driving a piezoelectric scanner linearly with time Virgil B. Elings 1991-09-24
5025658 Compact atomic force microscope Virgil B. Elings, Dror Sarid 1991-06-25