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Orson Sutherland — 8 Patents

FEFei: 8 patents #70 of 681Top 15%
AUAustralian National University: 1 patents #86 of 242Top 40%
Belconnen, AU: #5 of 74 inventorsTop 7%
Overall (All Time): #600,572 of 4,157,543Top 15%
8 Patents All Time
Orson Sutherland has been granted 8 US patents while listed as an inventor at Fei. The first was granted in 2007 and the most recent in May 2017. Orson Sutherland ranks #600,572 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 14.4%). Patent records list Orson Sutherland in Belconnen, AU.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2007 to 2017Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2014.peak 22007: 1 patents20072010: 1 patents20102011: 1 patents20112012: 1 patents20122013: 1 patents20132014: 2 patents20142017: 1 patents2017

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–8 of 8 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9640367 Plasma source for a focused ion beam system John H. Keller, Noel Smith, Roderick Boswell, Lawrence Scipioni, Christine Charles 2017-05-02
8829468 Magnetically enhanced, inductively coupled plasma source for a focused ion beam system John H. Keller, Noel Smith, Roderick Boswell, Lawrence Scipioni, Christine Charles 2014-09-09 $10,073,000
8653474 Charged particle extraction device and method of design there for Roderick Boswell 2014-02-18 $9,056,000
8405043 Charged particle extraction device and method of design there for Roderick Boswell 2013-03-26 $4,818,000
8168957 Magnetically enhanced, inductively coupled plasma source for a focused ion beam system John H. Keller, Noel Smith, Roderick Boswell, Lawrence Scipioni, Christine Charles 2012-05-01 $2,973,000
7872242 Charged particle extraction device and method of design there for Roderick Boswell 2011-01-18 $6,863,000
7670455 Magnetically enhanced, inductively coupled plasma source for a focused ion beam system John H. Keller, Noel Smith, Roderick Boswell, Lawrence Scipioni, Christine Charles 2010-03-02 $2,482,000
7241361 Magnetically enhanced, inductively coupled plasma source for a focused ion beam system John H. Keller, Noel Smith, Roderick Boswell, Lawrence Scipioni, Christine Charles 2007-07-10 $11,372,000