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Douglas Howard Piltingsrud — 16 Patents

IBM: 12 patents #9,258 of 70,183Top 15%
HGHGST: 3 patents #652 of 1,677Top 40%
Rochester, MN: #379 of 3,042 inventorsTop 15%
Minnesota: #4,638 of 52,454 inventorsTop 9%
Overall (All Time): #284,196 of 4,157,543Top 7%
16 Patents All Time
Douglas Howard Piltingsrud has been granted 16 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1986 and the most recent in August 2008. Douglas Howard Piltingsrud ranks #284,196 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 6.8%). Patent records list Douglas Howard Piltingsrud in Rochester, MN, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1986 to 2008Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 1986.peak 21986: 2 patents19861997: 1 patents1998: 1 patents19981999: 1 patents2000: 1 patents20002001: 1 patents2002: 1 patents20022003: 2 patents2004: 1 patents20042005: 1 patents2006: 1 patents20062007: 1 patents2008: 2 patents2008

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–16 of 16 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7416680 Self-cleaning colloidal slurry composition and process for finishing a surface of a substrate Frederick Benning, James A. Hagan, Steven Maynard, David Paurus, Jon Podolske 2008-08-26 $10,658,000
7390423 Self-cleaning colloidal slurry composition and process for finishing a surface of a substrate Frederick Benning, James A. Hagan, Steven Maynard, David Paurus, Jon Podolske 2008-06-24 $7,053,000
7201639 Powder for disks Patrick M. McCaffrey 2007-04-10 $231,000
7064927 Disk, method for making it free of asperities utilizing a step of exposing a surface of the disk to a gas cluster ion beam and disk drive unit for using the disk Karl R. Erickson, Douglas Allan Kuchta 2006-06-20 $122,000
6911261 pH adjustment of a melt for use in microetching glass substrates Terry Lee Jensen, John William Marier, Rick Allan Sprague 2005-06-28 $7,000,000
6767584 Disk substrate with monosized microbumps James A. Hagan, Ullal V. Nayak, Janice Blue Ostrom, Douglas Kuchta 2004-07-27 $9,809,000
6634928 Fluid jet cutting method and apparatus Karl R. Erickson, Dennis L. Fox, Douglas Kuchta 2003-10-21 $7,269,000
6582279 Apparatus and method for reclaiming a disk substrate for use in a data storage device Dennis L. Fox, James A. Hagan, John P. Hagen, Paul Henry Hanson, Theresa Marie Lewis +3 more 2003-06-24 $113,000
6402851 Lanthanide oxide dissolution from glass surface 2002-06-11 $11,523,000
6183828 Plating on nonmetallic disks Steven F. Starcke, John David Amundson, James A. Hagan 2001-02-06 $23,051,000
6068905 Composite disk substrates Steven F. Starcke 2000-05-30 $26,347,000
5871810 Plating on nonmetallic disks Steven F. Starcke, John David Amundson, James A. Hagan 1999-02-16 $10,802,000
5733622 Edge strengthened substrate of a data storage disk and method for fabricating same Steven F. Starcke, John David Amundson 1998-03-31 $13,730,000
5643649 Method for improving the flatness of glass disk substrates James A. Hagan, Steven F. Starcke, Bradley J. Offuh, Dennis L. Fox 1997-07-01 $13,721,000
4596739 Rigid magnetic recording media John C. S. Shen 1986-06-24 $42,518,000
4567096 Hydrated alumina binder system John C. S. Shen 1986-01-28