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Orest Bula — 22 Patents

IBM: 22 patents #4,922 of 70,183Top 8%
Shelburne, VT: #10 of 140 inventorsTop 8%
Vermont: #357 of 4,968 inventorsTop 8%
Overall (All Time): #189,202 of 4,157,543Top 5%
22 Patents All Time
Orest Bula has been granted 22 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1992 and the most recent in February 2009. Orest Bula ranks #189,202 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.6%). Patent records list Orest Bula in Shelburne, VT, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1992 to 2009Bar chart with a peak of 6 patents in 2002.peak 61992: 1 patents19921994: 1 patents19942000: 1 patents20002001: 5 patents20012002: 6 patents20022003: 4 patents20032004: 1 patents20042007: 1 patents20072009: 2 patents2009

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–22 of 22 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7492941 Mask defect analysis system James A. Bruce, Edward W. Conrad, William C. Leipold, Michael S. Hibbs, Joshua J. Krueger 2009-02-17 $3,763,000
7492940 Mask defect analysis system James A. Bruce, Edward W. Conrad, William C. Leipold, Michael S. Hibbs, Joshua J. Krueger 2009-02-17 $3,763,000
7257247 Mask defect analysis system James A. Bruce, Edward W. Conrad, William C. Leipold, Michael S. Hibbs, Joshua J. Krueger 2007-08-14 $10,148,000
6704695 Interactive optical proximity correction design method Daniel C. Cole, Edward W. Conrad, William C. Leipold 2004-03-09 $11,976,000
6667136 Method to control nested to isolated line printing Daniel C. Cole, Edward W. Conrad, William C. Leipold 2003-12-23 $13,142,000
6627361 Assist features for contact hole mask patterns Michael S. Hibbs, Steven J. Holmes, Paul A. Rabidoux 2003-09-30 $10,221,000
6577406 Structure for lithographic focus control features James A. Bruce, Emily E. Fisch 2003-06-10 $13,477,000
6539321 Method for edge bias correction of topography-induced linewidth variation James A. Bruce, Edward W. Conrad, William C. Leipold 2003-03-25 $14,515,000
6458493 Method to control nested to isolated line printing Daniel C. Cole, Edward W. Conrad, William C. Leipold 2002-10-01 $10,556,000
6429469 Optical Proximity Correction Structures Having Decoupling Capacitors Archibald J. Allen, John M. Cohn, Daniel C. Cole, Edward W. Conrad, William C. Leipold 2002-08-06 $5,918,000
6425112 Auto correction of error checked simulated printed images Daniel C. Cole, Edward W. Conrad, William C. Leipold 2002-07-23 $13,664,000
6395438 Method of etch bias proximity correction James A. Bruce, Edward W. Conrad, William C. Leipold 2002-05-28 $13,038,000
6383719 Process for enhanced lithographic imaging Daniel C. Cole, Edward W. Conrad, Stephen E. Knight, Robert K. Leidy 2002-05-07 $13,479,000
6373975 Error checking of simulated printed images with process window effects included Daniel C. Cole, Edward W. Conrad, William C. Leipold 2002-04-16 $14,535,000
6268908 Micro adjustable illumination aperture Daniel C. Cole, Edward W. Conrad, David V. Horak, Jed H. Rankin 2001-07-31 $29,242,000
6261724 Method of modifying a microchip layout data set to generate a predicted mask printed data set Daniel C. Cole, Edward W. Conrad, William C. Leipold, Donald J. Samuels 2001-07-17 $23,321,000
6258490 Transmission control mask utilized to reduce foreshortening effects Daniel C. Cole, Edward W. Conrad, William C. Leipold 2001-07-10 $19,901,000
6238850 Method of forming sharp corners in a photoresist layer Daniel C. Cole, Edward W. Conrad, William C. Leipold 2001-05-29 $28,465,000
6214494 Serif mask design methodology based on enhancing high spatial frequency contribution for improved printability Daniel C. Cole, Edward W. Conrad, Ning Lu 2001-04-10 $37,384,000
6016357 Feedback method to repair phase shift masks Timothy E. Neary, Edward W. Conrad 2000-01-18 $42,053,000
5317573 Apparatus and method for real time data error capture and compression redundancy analysis Garrett Stephen Koch, Justin A. Woyke, Richard S. Gomez 1994-05-31 $5,696,000
5093584 Self calibrating timing circuit Justin A. Woyke, Garrett Stephen Koch, Richard S. Gomez 1992-03-03 $15,673,000