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John A. Hoffnagle — 18 Patents

IBM: 11 patents #10,022 of 70,183Top 15%
PIPicarro: 7 patents #8 of 53Top 20%
LSLawrence Livermore National Security: 1 patents #899 of 1,665Top 55%
San Jose, CA: #3,642 of 32,062 inventorsTop 15%
California: #33,102 of 386,348 inventorsTop 9%
Overall (All Time): #245,716 of 4,157,543Top 6%
18 Patents All Time
John A. Hoffnagle has been granted 18 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1993 and the most recent in April 2025. John A. Hoffnagle ranks #245,716 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.9%). Patent records list John A. Hoffnagle in San Jose, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1993 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2001.peak 21993: 1 patents19931995: 1 patents2001: 2 patents20012003: 1 patents2004: 1 patents20042005: 1 patents2006: 2 patents20062007: 1 patents2011: 1 patents20112015: 1 patents2016: 1 patents20162017: 1 patents2021: 2 patents20212023: 1 patents2025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–18 of 18 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12270706 Cavity enhanced absorption spectroscopy using a piecewise tunable laser and hierarchical wavelength determination Alejandro Dario Farinas, Chris W. Rella, Sze Meng Tan 2025-04-08
11592388 Clutter avoidance in wide-band cavity ring-down data acquisition Chris W. Rella 2023-02-28
11092493 Cavity enhanced absorption spectroscopy using a piecewise tunable laser and hierarchical wavelength determination Alejandro Dario Farinas, Chris W. Rella, Sze Meng Tan 2021-08-17
11035728 Cavity ring-down spectroscopy having interleaved data acquisition for interference mitigation Chris W. Rella, Hongbing Chen, Derek Gregory Fleck, James I. C. Lee, Gerald Thomas Sorensen +1 more 2021-06-15
9645077 Spectroscopic quantification of extremely rare molecular species in the presence of interfering optical absorption Ted Ognibene, Graham Bench, Alan Daniel McCartt, Kenneth W. Turteltaub, Chris W. Rella +3 more 2017-05-09
9267880 Ring-down binning in FSR hopping mode Sze Meng Tan, Chris W. Rella 2016-02-23
8982352 Regular, stable optical frequency scale for cavity enhanced optical spectroscopy Sze Meng Tan, Chris W. Rella 2015-03-17
7875408 Bleachable materials for lithography David R. Medeiros, Robert D. Miller, Libor Vycklicky, Gregory Michael Wallraff 2011-01-25 $4,442,000
7179571 Apparatus for characterization of photoresist resolution, and method of use William D. Hinsberg, Frances Anne Houle, Martha I. Sanchez 2007-02-20 $6,976,000
7079223 Fast model-based optical proximity correction Alan E. Rosenbluth, Gregg M. Gallatin, Ronald Gordon, Nakgeuon Seong, Alexey Y. Lvov +3 more 2006-07-18 $4,124,000
7046342 Apparatus for characterization of photoresist resolution, and method of use William D. Hinsberg, Frances Anne Houle, Martha I. Sanchez 2006-05-16 $5,914,000
6879448 Apparatus for achromatizing optical beams Carl M. Jefferson 2005-04-12 $5,340,000
6801368 System for converting optical beams to collimated flat-top beams Hans J. Coufal, Carl M. Jefferson 2004-10-05 $8,713,000
6654183 System for converting optical beams to collimated flat-top beams Hans J. Coufal, Carl M. Jefferson 2003-11-25 $5,480,000
6295168 Refractive optical system that converts a laser beam to a collimated flat-top beam Carl M. Jefferson 2001-09-25 $32,998,000
6178000 Monolithic symmetric interferometer for generation of variable-periodicity patterns for lithography 2001-01-23 $22,404,000
5379000 Atomic clock employing ion trap of mono- or multi-planar geometry Richard Grant Brewer, Ralph G. Devoe, Kenneth L. Foster, Reinald Kallenbach 1995-01-03 $8,869,000
5248883 Ion traps of mono- or multi-planar geometry and planar ion trap devices Richard Grant Brewer, Ralph G. Devoe, Kenneth L. Foster, Reinald Kallenbach 1993-09-28 $10,590,000