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Gerhard Elsner — 8 Patents

IBM: 8 patents #13,181 of 70,183Top 20%
Sindelfingen, DE: #64 of 546 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #600,572 of 4,157,543Top 15%
8 Patents All Time
Gerhard Elsner has been granted 8 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1987 and the most recent in May 2000. Gerhard Elsner ranks #600,572 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 14.4%). Patent records list Gerhard Elsner in Sindelfingen, DE.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1987 to 2000Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 1999.peak 41987: 1 patents19871988: 2 patents19881999: 4 patents19992000: 1 patents2000

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–8 of 8 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
6061074 Ion generator for ionographic print heads Johann W. Bartha, Frank Druschke, Johann Greschner 2000-05-09 $23,540,000
5980683 Production of a support element module for embedding into smart cards or other data carrier cards Wolfgang Beck, Reinhold Braun, Roland Diemer, Frank Druschke, Harald Gruber +2 more 1999-11-09 $24,477,000
5939893 Contact probe arrangement for functional electrical testing Johann Greschner, Roland Stoehr 1999-08-17 $20,828,000
5923511 Directly contactable disk for vertical magnetic data storage Upali Bandara, Arved Brunsch 1999-07-13 $29,937,000
5863636 Adhesive bond for densely ordered elements Frank Druschke, Johann Greschner, Roland Stoehr 1999-01-26 $21,368,000
4732646 Method of forming identically positioned alignment marks on opposite sides of a semiconductor wafer Johann Greschner, Holger Hinkel 1988-03-22 $42,241,000
4724392 System for testing magnetic head/disk interfaces Upali Bandara, Volker Heinrich, Holger Hinkel, Artur Lang, Erwin J. Prinz +2 more 1988-02-09 $49,625,000
4689260 Abrasion-resistant magnetic recording disk Marian Briska, Holger Hinkel 1987-08-25 $31,388,000