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John A. Welsh — 19 Patents

IBM: 19 patents #5,793 of 70,183Top 9%
Binghamton, NY: #25 of 500 inventorsTop 5%
New York: #7,469 of 115,490 inventorsTop 7%
Overall (All Time): #229,345 of 4,157,543Top 6%
19 Patents All Time
John A. Welsh has been granted 19 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1984 and the most recent in April 2008. John A. Welsh ranks #229,345 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.5%). Patent records list John A. Welsh in Binghamton, NY, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1984 to 2008Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2001.peak 31984: 1 patents19841986: 2 patents1989: 1 patents19891990: 2 patents1992: 1 patents19922000: 2 patents2001: 3 patents20012002: 3 patents2003: 1 patents20032004: 1 patents2006: 1 patents20062008: 1 patents2008

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–19 of 19 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7353590 Method of forming printed circuit card Kenneth Michael Fallon, Miguel A. Jimarez, Ross W. Keesler, John M. Lauffer, Roy H. Magnuson +5 more 2008-04-08 $6,866,000
6986198 Method of forming printed circuit card Kenneth Michael Fallon, Miguel A. Jimarez, Ross W. Keesler, John M. Lauffer, Roy H. Magnuson +5 more 2006-01-17 $9,394,000
6750405 Two signal one power plane circuit board Kenneth Michael Fallon, Miguel A. Jimarez, Ross W. Keesler, John M. Lauffer, Roy H. Magnuson +5 more 2004-06-15 $11,083,000
6524654 Method of controlling the spread of an adhesive on a circuitized organic substrate John J. Konrad, Konstantinos I. Papathomas 2003-02-25 $14,577,000
6488198 Wire bonding method and apparatus Douglas E. Chrzanowski, James Warren Wilson, Jeffrey Zimmerman 2002-12-03 $15,579,000
6453549 Method of filling plated through holes Anilkumar C. Bhatt, David E. Houser 2002-09-24 $8,983,000
6432182 Treatment solution for reducing adhesive resin bleed John J. Konrad, Konstantinos I. Papathomas 2002-08-13 $10,700,000
6274291 Method of reducing defects in I/C card and resulting card Ashwinkumar C. Bhatt, John Christopher Camp, Mary Beth Fletcher, Kenneth Lynn Potter 2001-08-14 $21,171,000
6204453 Two signal one power plane circuit board Kenneth Michael Fallon, Miguel A. Jimarez, Ross W. Keesler, John M. Lauffer, Roy H. Magnuson +5 more 2001-03-20 $35,881,000
6201194 Multi-voltage plane, multi-signal plane circuit card with photoimageable dielectric John M. Lauffer, Roy H. Magnuson, Voya R. Markovich 2001-03-13 $29,262,000
6099959 Method of controlling the spread of an adhesive on a circuitized organic substrate John J. Konrad, Konstantinos I. Papathomas 2000-08-08 $34,993,000
6009620 Method of making a printed circuit board having filled holes Ashwinkumar C. Bhatt, Joseph Alphonse Kotylo, Kenneth S. Lyjak, Amarjit S. Rai 2000-01-04 $40,662,000
5114518 Method of making multilayer circuit boards having conformal Insulating layers Joseph G. Hoffarth, Donald J. Lazzarini, John P. Wiley 1992-05-19 $17,072,000
4971715 Phenolic-free stripping composition and use thereof Richard G. Armant, Edward Lee Arrington, Anilkumar C. Bhatt, Donald M. Egleton, Frederick M. Ortloff +1 more 1990-11-20 $11,140,000
4918574 Multilayer circuit board with reduced susceptability to shorts caused by trapped impurities Joseph G. Hoffarth, Donald J. Lazzarini, John P. Wiley 1990-04-17 $15,126,000
4810326 Interlaminate adhesion between polymeric materials and electrolytic copper surfaces Suryadevara V. Babu, Vu Q. Bui, Joseph G. Hoffarth 1989-03-07 $10,355,000
4618477 Uniform plasma for drill smear removal reactor Suryadevara V. Babu, Ronald S. Horwath, Neng-Hsing Lu 1986-10-21 $32,531,000
4599134 Plasma etching with tracer Suryadevara V. Babu, Joseph G. Hoffarth 1986-07-08 $22,430,000
4431685 Decreasing plated metal defects Michael J. Canestaro, Donald G. McBride 1984-02-14 $16,610,000