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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025
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Ralph G. Whitten — 33 Patents

FOFormfactor: 12 patents #16 of 177Top 10%
NSNevada Nanotech Systems: 9 patents #1 of 12Top 9%
QUQuicklogic: 5 patents #14 of 70Top 20%
APAptix: 4 patents #4 of 21Top 20%
SMSilicon Light Machines: 1 patents #62 of 89Top 70%
AMD: 1 patents #6,700 of 9,280Top 75%
Reno, NV: #80 of 2,043 inventorsTop 4%
Nevada: #237 of 8,397 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #105,480 of 4,157,543Top 3%
33 Patents All Time
Ralph G. Whitten has been granted 33 US patents while listed as an inventor at Formfactor. The first was granted in 1989 and the most recent in August 2025. Ralph G. Whitten ranks #105,480 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.5%). Patent records list Ralph G. Whitten in Reno, NV, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1989 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2003.peak 41989: 1 patents19891994: 1 patents1995: 2 patents1996: 1 patents19961997: 1 patents1998: 2 patents1999: 2 patents19992000: 1 patents2002: 3 patents2003: 4 patents20032004: 3 patents2005: 1 patents2006: 1 patents20062009: 1 patents2017: 2 patents2018: 1 patents20182019: 1 patents2020: 1 patents2022: 1 patents20222023: 1 patents2025: 2 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 33 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12385876 Methods of operating and calibrating a gas sensor, and related gas sensors Benjamin S. Rogers, Vaughn N. Hartung, Onnik Yaglioglu, Jesse D. Adams 2025-08-12
12372488 Methods for determining at least one property of a material, and related detector Benjamin S. Rogers, Christopher J. Dudley, Jesse D. Adams, Alexander C. Woods, Vaughn N. Hartung 2025-07-29
11709142 Methods for determining at least one property of a material Benjamin S. Rogers, Christopher J. Dudley, Jesse D. Adams, Alexander C. Woods, Vaughn N. Hartung 2023-07-25
11262321 Systems and methods for determining at least one property of a material Benjamin S. Rogers, Christopher J. Dudley, Jesse D. Adams, Alexander C. Woods, Vaughn N. Hartung 2022-03-01
10724976 Systems and methods for determining at least one property of a material Benjamin S. Rogers, Christopher J. Dudley, Jesse D. Adams, Alexander C. Woods, Vaughn N. Hartung 2020-07-28
10453321 Pre-smoke detector and system for use in early detection of developing fires Jesse D. Adams 2019-10-22
9922517 Pre-smoke detector and system for use in early detection of developing fires Jesse D. Adams 2018-03-20
9625401 Molecular analysis using micro electro-mechanical sensor devices Jesse D. Adams, David R. Halbert, Joseph P. Barrus, Benjamin S. Rogers 2017-04-18
9547968 Pre-smoke detector and system for use in early detection of developing fires Jesse D. Adams 2017-01-17
7557596 Test assembly including a test die for testing a semiconductor product die Benjamin N. Eldridge, Igor Y. Khandros, David V. Pedersen 2009-07-07 $3,992,000
7053637 Method for testing signal paths between an integrated circuit wafer and a wafer tester Benjamin N. Eldridge 2006-05-30 $23,014,000
6940093 Special contact points for accessing internal circuitry of an integrated circuit Benjamin N. Eldridge, Igor Y. Khandros, David V. Pedersen 2005-09-06 $4,942,000
6825052 Test assembly including a test die for testing a semiconductor product die Benjamin N. Eldridge, Igor Y. Khandros, David V. Pedersen 2004-11-30 $5,415,000
6724209 Method for testing signal paths between an integrated circuit wafer and a wafer tester Benjamin N. Eldridge 2004-04-20
6690185 Large contactor with multiple, aligned contactor units Igor Y. Khandros, David V. Pedersen 2004-02-10 $8,283,000
6621260 Special contact points for accessing internal circuitry of an integrated circuit Benjamin N. Eldridge, Igor Y. Khandros, David V. Pedersen 2003-09-16 $3,306,000
6603324 Special contact points for accessing internal circuitry of an integrated circuit Benjamin N. Eldridge, Igor Y. Khandros, David V. Pedersen 2003-08-05 $2,958,000
6597187 Special contact points for accessing internal circuitry of an integrated circuit Benjamin N. Eldridge, Igor Y. Khandros, David V. Pedersen 2003-07-22 $6,256,000
6551844 Test assembly including a test die for testing a semiconductor product die Benjamin N. Eldridge, Igor Y. Khandros, David V. Pedersen 2003-04-22
6476630 Method for testing signal paths between an integrated circuit wafer and a wafer tester Benjamin N. Eldridge 2002-11-05
6456099 Special contact points for accessing internal circuitry of an integrated circuit Benjamin N. Eldridge, Igor Y. Khandros, David V. Pedersen 2002-09-24
6429029 Concurrent design and subsequent partitioning of product and test die Benjamin N. Eldridge, Igor Y. Khandros, David V. Pedersen 2002-08-06
6150199 Method for fabrication of programmable interconnect structure Richard L. Bechtel, Mammen Thomas, Hua-Thye Chua, Andrew K. Chan, John Birkner 2000-11-21 $4,573,000
5989943 Method for fabrication of programmable interconnect structure Richard L. Bechtel, Mammen Thomas, Hua-Thye Chua, Andrew K. Chan, John Birkner 1999-11-23 $6,211,000
5903041 Integrated two-terminal fuse-antifuse and fuse and integrated two-terminal fuse-antifuse structures incorporating an air gap Michael David La Fleur, Chun-Mai Liu, Alan Comer, Scott O. Graham, Yu-Lin Lee 1999-05-11