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Makarand Shinde — 18 Patents

FOFormfactor: 18 patents #10 of 177Top 6%
Dublin, CA: #124 of 1,312 inventorsTop 10%
California: #33,102 of 386,348 inventorsTop 9%
Overall (All Time): #245,716 of 4,157,543Top 6%
18 Patents All Time
Makarand Shinde has been granted 18 US patents while listed as an inventor at Formfactor. The first was granted in 2005 and the most recent in December 2010. Makarand Shinde ranks #245,716 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.9%). Patent records list Makarand Shinde in Dublin, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2005 to 2010Bar chart with a peak of 6 patents in 2010.peak 62005: 2 patents20052006: 4 patents20062007: 3 patents20072008: 1 patents20082009: 2 patents20092010: 6 patents2010

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–18 of 18 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7845072 Method and apparatus for adjusting a multi-substrate probe structure Eric D. Hobbs, Benjamin N. Eldridge, Lunyu Ma, Gaetan L. Mathieu, Steven T. Murphy +1 more 2010-12-07 $5,601,000
7825674 Probe card configuration for low mechanical flexural strength electrical routing substrates Richard A. Larder, Timothy E. Cooper, Ravindra V. Shenoy, Benjamin N. Eldridge 2010-11-02 $1,930,000
7692433 Sawing tile corners on probe card substrates Benjamin N. Eldridge, Roy J. Henson, Eric D. Hobbs, Peter B. Mathews 2010-04-06 $3,995,000
7671614 Apparatus and method for adjusting an orientation of probes Benjamin N. Eldridge, Eric D. Hobbs, Gaetan L. Mathieu, Alexander H. Slocum 2010-03-02 $7,585,000
7659736 Mechanically reconfigurable vertical tester interface for IC probing Benjamin N. Eldridge, Barbara Vasquez, Gaetan L. Mathieu, A. Nicholas Sporck 2010-02-09 $3,704,000
7642794 Method and system for compensating thermally induced motion of probe cards Benjamin N. Eldridge, Gary W. Grube, Ken S. Matsubayashi, Richard A. Larder, Gaetan L. Mathieu 2010-01-05 $9,375,000
7592821 Apparatus and method for managing thermally induced motion of a probe card assembly Benjamin N. Eldridge, Gary W. Grube, Eric D. Hobbs, Gaetan L. Mathieu, Alexander H. Slocum +2 more 2009-09-22 $6,869,000
7560941 Method and system for compensating thermally induced motion of probe cards Rod Martens, Benjamin N. Eldridge, Gary W. Grube, Ken S. Matsubayashi, Richard A. Larder +1 more 2009-07-14 $6,170,000
7471094 Method and apparatus for adjusting a multi-substrate probe structure Eric D. Hobbs, Benjamin N. Eldridge, Lunyu Ma, Gaetan L. Mathieu, Steven T. Murphy +1 more 2008-12-30 $4,196,000
7312618 Method and system for compensating thermally induced motion of probe cards Benjamin N. Eldridge, Gary W. Grube, Ken S. Matsubayashi, Richard A. Larder, Gaetan L. Mathieu 2007-12-25
7285968 Apparatus and method for managing thermally induced motion of a probe card assembly Benjamin N. Eldridge, Gary W. Grube, Eric D. Hobbs, Gaetan L. Mathieu, Alexander H. Slocum +2 more 2007-10-23 $11,950,000
7230437 Mechanically reconfigurable vertical tester interface for IC probing Benjamin N. Eldridge, Barbara Vasquez, Gaetan L. Mathieu, A. Nicholas Sporck 2007-06-12 $20,606,000
7119564 Method and system for compensating thermally induced motion of probe cards Rod Martens, Benjamin N. Eldridge, Gary W. Grube, Ken S. Matsubayashi, Richard A. Larder +1 more 2006-10-10 $27,056,000
7116119 Probe card with coplanar daughter card Alistair Nicholas Sporck 2006-10-03 $26,710,000
7071714 Method and system for compensating for thermally induced motion of probe cards Benjamin N. Eldridge, Gary W. Grube, Ken S. Matsubayashi, Richard A. Larder, Gaetan L. Mathieu 2006-07-04
7071715 Probe card configuration for low mechanical flexural strength electrical routing substrates Richard A. Larder, Timothy E. Cooper, Ravindra V. Shenoy, Benjamin N. Eldridge 2006-07-04
6972578 Method and system for compensating thermally induced motion of probe cards Rod Martens, Benjamin N. Eldridge, Gary W. Grube, Ken S. Matsubayashi, Richard A. Larder +1 more 2005-12-06 $10,759,000
6856150 Probe card with coplanar daughter card A. Nicholas Sporck 2005-02-15 $8,493,000