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Robert A. Scranton — 11 Patents

IBM: 10 patents #10,925 of 70,183Top 20%
Ossining, NY: #150 of 613 inventorsTop 25%
New York: #13,476 of 115,490 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #435,149 of 4,157,543Top 15%
11 Patents All Time
Robert A. Scranton has been granted 11 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1982 and the most recent in August 1993. Robert A. Scranton ranks #435,149 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 10.5%). Patent records list Robert A. Scranton in Ossining, NY, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–11 of 11 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
H1221 High speed, small diameter disk storage system John S. Best, Timothy J. Chainer, Thomas Glaser, Richard Greenberg, Avijit Mukherjee +3 more 1993-08-03
4931887 Capacitive measurement and control of the fly height of a recording slider Suryanarayan G. Hegde, Edward J. Yarmchuk 1990-06-05 $25,546,000
4737877 Structure to provide optical and capacitive contrast on magnetic recording disk Sol Krongelb, Lubomyr T. Romankiw, David A. Thompson 1988-04-12 $59,222,000
4669013 Multiple coils for reduction of stray magnetic fields in disk file actuators David A. Thompson, Thomas K. Worthington 1987-05-26 $47,285,000
4666315 Planar and cylindrical oscillating pneumatodynamic bearings 1987-05-19 $60,261,000
4648087 Capacitive sensing employing thin film inductors David A. Thompson 1987-03-03 $15,226,000
4630941 Tubular squeeze bearing apparatus with rotational restraint Timothy J. Chainer, David A. Thompson 1986-12-23 $25,550,000
4593956 Long tube bender element squeeze bearing Mark B. Caruso 1986-06-10 $24,375,000
4513437 Data input pen for Signature Verification Timothy J. Chainer, Thomas K. Worthington 1985-04-23 $13,548,000
4396966 Low mass actuator system for magnetic recording disks with half strength end poles David A. Thompson, Thomas K. Worthington 1983-08-02 $14,151,000
4347583 Neel wall segment detection in cross-tie memory systems 1982-08-31 $20,205,000