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David N. Light — 29 Patents

IBM: 20 patents #5,465 of 70,183Top 8%
IAIdex Biometrics Asa: 5 patents #6 of 26Top 25%
IAIdex Asa: 2 patents #19 of 35Top 55%
NENeoconix: 2 patents #8 of 20Top 40%
Los Gatos, CA: #284 of 2,986 inventorsTop 10%
California: #18,137 of 386,348 inventorsTop 5%
Overall (All Time): #127,851 of 4,157,543Top 4%
29 Patents All Time
David N. Light has been granted 29 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1984 and the most recent in February 2024. David N. Light ranks #127,851 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.1%). Patent records list David N. Light in Los Gatos, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 29 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11895777 Flexible inlay and manufacturing method thereof 2024-02-06
10776600 Electronic sensor supported on rigid substrate Fred G. Benkley, III, David Rodney Baker, Thomas Gaudette 2020-09-15
10713461 Double sided sensor module suitable for integration into electronic devices Fred G. Benkley, III 2020-07-14
10687424 Configurable, encapsulated sensor module and method for making same Fred G. Benkley, III, David Joseph Geoffroy, Massimo Eugenio Ravelli 2020-06-16
10675791 Method of manufacturing a cover member suitable for a fingerprint sensor Anne L. McAleer 2020-06-09
10387707 Reinforcement panel for fingerprint sensor cover David Rodney Baker 2019-08-20 $41,955,000
10331934 Electronic sensor supported on rigid substrate Fred G. Benkley, III, David Rodney Baker, Thomas Gaudette 2019-06-25 $25,258,000
9680273 Electrical connector with electrical contacts protected by a layer of compressible material and method of making it Hung-Ming Wang, David Rodney Baker, Peter Nguyen, Dexter Shih-Wei Pao 2017-06-13
8641428 Electrical connector and method of making it Dinesh S. Kalakkad, Peter Nguyen 2014-02-04
6734368 Metal backed printed circuit board assemblies Lisa J. Jimarez 2004-05-11 $7,887,000
6178630 Conductive bonding design and method for aluminum backed circuits Lisa J. Jimarez, Andrew Seman, David B. Stone 2001-01-30 $13,187,000
6066808 Multilayer circuit board having metallized patterns formed flush with a top surface thereof John S. Kresge 2000-05-23 $39,585,000
5920037 Conductive bonding design for metal backed circuits Lisa J. Jimarez, Andrew Seman, David B. Stone 1999-07-06 $40,075,000
5829124 Method for forming metallized patterns on the top surface of a printed circuit board John S. Kresge 1998-11-03 $14,328,000
5736679 Deformable interconnect structure for connecting an internal plane to a through-hole in a multilayer circuit board John S. Kresge, James R. Wilcox 1998-04-07 $12,123,000
5620782 Method of fabricating a flex laminate package Charles R. Davis, Thomas P. Duffy, Steven L. Hanakovic, Howard L. Heck, John T. Kolias +2 more 1997-04-15 $19,390,000
5574630 Laminated electronic package including a power/ground assembly John S. Kresge, Tien Y. Wu 1996-11-12 $16,914,000
5509196 Method of fabricating a flex laminate package Charles R. Davis, Thomas P. Duffy, Steven L. Hanakovic, Howard L. Heck, John T. Kolias +2 more 1996-04-23 $15,192,000
5384690 Flex laminate package for a parallel processor Charles R. Davis, Thomas P. Duffy, Steven L. Hanakovic, Howard L. Heck, John T. Kolias +2 more 1995-01-24 $12,425,000
5221420 Etching method for increased circuitized line width and uniformity Kathleen L. Covert, Jennette E. Kingsley, Richard A. Schumacher 1993-06-22 $8,462,000
5185073 Method of fabricating nendritic materials Perminder S. Bindra, Jerome J. Cuomo, Thomas P. Gall, Anthony P. Ingraham, Sung Kwon Kang +10 more 1993-02-09 $9,865,000
5137461 Separable electrical connection technology Perminder S. Bindra, Jerome J. Cuomo, Thomas P. Gall, Anthony P. Ingraham, Sung Kwon Kang +10 more 1992-08-11 $12,814,000
5035778 Regeneration of spent ferric chloride etchants Perminder S. Bindra, Kathleen L. Covert 1991-07-30 $34,699,000
4910049 Conditioning a dielectric substrate for plating thereon Perminder S. Bindra, Donald F. Canaperi, Allan P. David 1990-03-20 $24,041,000
4725339 Method for monitoring metal ion concentrations in plating baths Perminder S. Bindra, Solomon L. Levine 1988-02-16 $22,273,000