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Torben Ulander — 11 Patents

FEFortrend Engineering: 8 patents #2 of 18Top 15%
FSFortrend Taiwan Scientific: 2 patents #2 of 8Top 25%
ALAsyst Technologies L.L.C.: 1 patents #41 of 93Top 45%
Sunnyvale, CA: #2,552 of 14,302 inventorsTop 20%
California: #56,011 of 386,348 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #435,149 of 4,157,543Top 15%
11 Patents All Time
Torben Ulander has been granted 11 US patents while listed as an inventor at Fortrend Engineering. The first was granted in 1993 and the most recent in March 2004. Torben Ulander ranks #435,149 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 10.5%). Patent records list Torben Ulander in Sunnyvale, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1993 to 2004Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2003.peak 31993: 1 patents19931996: 1 patents19961999: 1 patents19992000: 1 patents20002001: 1 patents20012002: 2 patents20022003: 3 patents20032004: 1 patents2004

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–11 of 11 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
6698992 Elastically expandable positioning device Kung Chris Wu, Chawshiang Wu, John M. Rush 2004-03-02
6655423 Unified pod quick-opening apparatus John M. Rush, Chawshiang Wu, Kung Chris Wu 2003-12-02
6610993 Load port door assembly with integrated wafer mapper Eric Meyhofer, Kenneth A. Hardy, Cyril M. Kindt 2003-08-26
6592317 Pod loader interface end effectors John M. Rush 2003-07-15 $2,948,000
6494666 Simplified and enhanced SCARA arm Kung Chris Wu, John M. Rush 2002-12-17
6396072 Load port door assembly with integrated wafer mapper Eric Meyhofer, Kenneth A. Hardy, Cyril M. Kindt 2002-05-28
6239963 Wafer support with electrostatic discharge bus 2001-05-29
6086323 Method for supplying wafers to an IC manufacturing process John M. Rush, Michael T. Verdon 2000-07-11
5984610 Pod loader interface John M. Rush, Michael T. Verdon 1999-11-16
5506744 Ionized airflow manifold for static reduction John M. Rush, Michael T. Verdon 1996-04-09
5193969 Wafer transfer machine John M. Rush, Michael T. Verdon 1993-03-16