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W. Ralph Knowles — 6 Patents

ELElectroscan: 2 patents #2 of 10Top 20%
FEFei: 2 patents #250 of 681Top 40%
PAPhilips Electronics North America: 2 patents #192 of 725Top 30%
Lowell, MA: #117 of 739 inventorsTop 20%
Massachusetts: #20,532 of 88,656 inventorsTop 25%
Overall (All Time): #779,687 of 4,157,543Top 20%
6 Patents All Time
W. Ralph Knowles has been granted 6 US patents while listed as an inventor at Electroscan. The first was granted in 1994 and the most recent in December 2005. W. Ralph Knowles ranks #779,687 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 18.8%). Patent records list W. Ralph Knowles in Lowell, MA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1994 to 2005Bar chart with a peak of 1 patents in 1994.peak 11994: 1 patents19941995: 1 patents19951998: 1 patents19981999: 1 patents19992000: 1 patents20002005: 1 patents2005

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–6 of 6 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
6979822 Charged particle beam system Diane K. Stewart, Brian T. Kimball 2005-12-27 $4,976,000
6025592 High temperature specimen stage and detector for an environmental scanning electron microscope Thomas A. Hardt 2000-02-15
5945672 Gaseous backscattered electron detector for an environmental scanning electron microscope Thomas A. Hardt, Peter D. Smith 1999-08-31 $2,425,000
5828064 Field emission environmental scanning electron microscope 1998-10-27
5412211 Environmental scanning electron microscope 1995-05-02
5362964 Environmental scanning electron microscope William G. Schultz, Allen E. Armstrong 1994-11-08