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Eric D. Hobbs — 48 Patents

FOFormfactor: 29 patents #7 of 177Top 4%
BLBerkeley Lights: 14 patents #6 of 97Top 7%
BABruker Cellular Analysis: 2 patents #17 of 50Top 35%
LCL-3 Communications: 1 patents #229 of 507Top 50%
Livermore, CA: #35 of 2,185 inventorsTop 2%
California: #8,595 of 386,348 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #57,596 of 4,157,543Top 2%
48 Patents All Time
Eric D. Hobbs has been granted 48 US patents while listed as an inventor at Formfactor. The first was granted in 2007 and the most recent in December 2024. Eric D. Hobbs ranks #57,596 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.4%). Patent records list Eric D. Hobbs in Livermore, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 48 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12162006 Isolating microfluidic structures and trapping bubbles Keith J. Breinlinger, Dorian Liepmann, Joshua Tanner Nevill, Mark P. White, Maria Jimena Loureiro 2024-12-10
12102083 Freezing and archiving cells on a microfluidic device Mark P. White, Kevin T. Chapman, Andrew W. McFarland, Randall D. Lowe, Jr. 2024-10-01
11802264 Microfluidic devices for optically-driven convection and displacement, kits and methods thereof Volker L. S. Kurz, Troy A. Lionberger, Eric Sackmann, Kai W. Szeto, Paul M. Lebel +5 more 2023-10-31
11596941 Lateral/vertical transistor structures and process of making and using same Justin K. Valley 2023-03-07
11565259 Microfluidic devices having isolation pens and methods of testing biological micro-objects with same Mark P. White, J. Tanner Nevill, Daniele Malleo, Steven W. Short 2023-01-31
11376591 Light sequencing and patterns for dielectrophoretic transport Troy A. Lionberger, Brandon R. Bruhn, John A. Tenney 2022-07-05
11318479 Capturing specific nucleic acid materials from individual biological cells in a micro-fluidic device Kevin T. Chapman, Steven W. Short, Mark P. White, Daniele Malleo 2022-05-03
10973227 Freezing and archiving cells on a microfluidic device Mark P. White, Kevin T. Chapman, Andrew W. McFarland, Randall D. Lowe, Jr. 2021-04-13
10829728 Microfluidic devices for optically-driven convection and displacement, kits and methods thereof Volker L. S. Kurz, Troy A. Lionberger, Eric Sackmann, Kai W. Szeto, Paul M. Lebel +5 more 2020-11-10
10821439 Movement and selection of micro-objects in a microfluidic apparatus Keith J. Breinlinger, Daniele Malleo, J. Tanner Nevill, Mark P. White 2020-11-03
10792658 Lateral/vertical transistor structures and process of making and using same Justin K. Valley 2020-10-06
10675625 Light sequencing and patterns for dielectrophoretic transport Troy A. Lionberger, Brandon R. Bruhn, John A. Tenney 2020-06-09
10646871 Microfluidic devices having isolation pens and methods of testing biological micro-objects with same Mark P. White, J. Tanner Nevill, Daniele Malleo, Steven W. Short 2020-05-12
10350594 Lateral/vertical transistor structures and process of making and using same Justin K. Valley 2019-07-16
10010882 Microfluidic devices having isolation pens and methods of testing biological micro-objects with same Mark P. White, J. Tanner Nevill, Daniele Malleo, Steven W. Short 2018-07-03
9908115 Lateral/vertical transistor structures and process of making and using same Justin K. Valley 2018-03-06
9744533 Movement and selection of micro-objects in a microfluidic apparatus Keith J. Breinlinger, Daniele Malleo, J. Tanner Nevill, Mark P. White 2017-08-29
9702904 Non-linear vertical leaf spring Keith J. Breinlinger, Benjamin N. Eldridge, Michael J. Armstrong, John K. Gritters 2017-07-11 $9,660,000
8872532 Wafer test cassette system Keith J. Breinlinger 2014-10-28 $1,540,000
8760187 Thermocentric alignment of elements on parts of an apparatus 2014-06-24 $15,806,000
8736294 Probe card stiffener with decoupling Kevin Shyh-Kang Chang 2014-05-27 $4,013,000
8587331 Test systems and methods for testing electronic devices Tommie Edward Berry, Keith J. Breinlinger, Marc Loranger, Alexander H. Slocum, Adrian Wilson 2013-11-19
8400173 Method and apparatus for thermally conditioning probe cards 2013-03-19 $1,185,000
8269514 Method and apparatus for multilayer support substrate Gaetan L. Mathieu, Frank M. Zalar 2012-09-18 $2,661,000
8138859 Switch for use in microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and MEMS devices incorporating same John K. Gritters, Sangtae Park, Jun Yao 2012-03-20 $2,430,000