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Richard P. Surprenant — 15 Patents

IBM: 11 patents #10,022 of 70,183Top 15%
GE: 4 patents #8,262 of 36,430Top 25%
Troy, NY: #38 of 610 inventorsTop 7%
New York: #9,821 of 115,490 inventorsTop 9%
Overall (All Time): #307,048 of 4,157,543Top 8%
15 Patents All Time
Richard P. Surprenant has been granted 15 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1984 and the most recent in February 2014. Richard P. Surprenant ranks #307,048 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 7.4%). Patent records list Richard P. Surprenant in Troy, NY, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1984 to 2014Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 1984.peak 21984: 2 patents19841985: 1 patents1988: 1 patents19881995: 1 patents1996: 2 patents19961998: 1 patents1999: 1 patents19992001: 1 patents2002: 1 patents20022005: 1 patents2007: 1 patents20072011: 1 patents2014: 1 patents2014

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–15 of 15 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8645875 Method for quantifying the manufacturing complexity of electrical designs Michael S. Cranmer 2014-02-04 $4,435,000
7873936 Method for quantifying the manufactoring complexity of electrical designs Michael S. Cranmer 2011-01-18 $5,934,000
7294909 Electronic package repair process Jon A. Casey, James G. Balz, Michael Berger, Jerome D. Cohen, Charles J. Hendricks +13 more 2007-11-13 $7,366,000
6916670 Electronic package repair process Jon A. Casey, James G. Balz, Michael Berger, Jerome D. Cohen, Charles J. Hendricks +13 more 2005-07-12 $9,006,000
6500751 Method of forming recessed thin film landing pad structure Edward Sumner Begle, Nancy Wagner Hannon, Mathias Pierre Jeanneret 2002-12-31 $15,139,000
6235544 Seed metal delete process for thin film repair solutions using direct UV laser Peter A. Franklin, Charles J. Hendricks, Stephen J. Tirch, III, Thomas A. Wassick, James Wood 2001-05-22 $28,959,000
5904868 Mounting and/or removing of components using optical fiber tools Laertis Economikos, Robert Hannon, Charles J. Hendricks 1999-05-18 $41,093,000
5742021 High thermal conductivity substrate and the method of brazing a cap thereto Laertis Economikos, Robert Hannon, Thomas J. VanDuynhoven 1998-04-21 $18,070,000
5491319 Laser ablation apparatus and method Laertis Economikos, Robert Hannon 1996-02-13 $8,744,000
5481138 Structure and a method for repairing electrical lines Laertis Economikos 1996-01-02 $7,091,000
5384953 Structure and a method for repairing electrical lines Laertis Economikos 1995-01-31 $9,170,000
4722967 Titanium chelate catalyst for silicone compositions Melvin D. Beers 1988-02-02 $13,727,000
4525400 Composition for promoting adhesion of curable silicones to substrates 1985-06-25 $4,583,000
4461867 Composition for promoting adhesion of curable silicones to substrates 1984-07-24 $6,008,000
4438039 Titanium chelate catalyst for silicone compositions Melvin D. Beers 1984-03-20 $4,551,000