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Robert D. Edwards — 11 Patents

IBM: 10 patents #10,925 of 70,183Top 20%
Marlboro, NY: #5 of 46 inventorsTop 15%
New York: #13,476 of 115,490 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #435,149 of 4,157,543Top 15%
11 Patents All Time
Robert D. Edwards has been granted 11 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1998 and the most recent in July 2017. Robert D. Edwards ranks #435,149 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 10.5%). Patent records list Robert D. Edwards in Marlboro, NY, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1998 to 2017Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2011.peak 21998: 1 patents19982002: 1 patents20022009: 1 patents20092011: 2 patents20112014: 1 patents20142015: 2 patents20152016: 1 patents20162017: 2 patents2017

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–11 of 11 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9702930 Semiconductor wafer probing system including pressure sensing and control unit Oleg Gluschenkov, Louis V. Medina, Tso-Hui Ting, Ping-Chuan Wang, Yongchun Xin 2017-07-11 $1,748,000
9673089 Interconnect structure with enhanced reliability Griselda Bonilla, Kaushik Chanda, Ronald G. Filippi, Andrew H. Simon, Ping-Chuan Wang 2017-06-06
9354252 Pressure sensing and control for semiconductor wafer probing Oleg Gluschenkov, Louis V. Medina, Tso-Hui Ting, Ping-Chuan Wang, Yongchun Xin 2016-05-31 $4,553,000
9059111 Reliable back-side-metal structure Jeffrey P. Gambino, Charles F. Musante, Ping-Chuan Wang 2015-06-16 $2,098,000
8963567 Pressure sensing and control for semiconductor wafer probing Oleg Gluschenkov, Louis V. Medina, Tso-Hui Ting, Ping-Chuan Wang, Yongchun Xin 2015-02-24 $3,851,000
8912658 Interconnect structure with enhanced reliability Ronald G. Filippi, Ping-Chuan Wang, Griselda Bonilla, Kaushik Chanda, Andrew H. Simon 2014-12-16 $3,695,000
8053257 Method for prediction of premature dielectric breakdown in a semiconductor Kaushik Chanda, Hazara S. Rathore, Paul S. McLaughlin, Lawrence A. Clevenger, Andrew P. Cowley +2 more 2011-11-08 $3,097,000
7919834 Edge seal for thru-silicon-via technology Robert Edgar Davis, J. Edwin Hostetter, Ping-Chuan Wang, Kimball M. Watson 2011-04-05 $6,033,000
7602265 Apparatus for accurate and efficient quality and reliability evaluation of micro electromechanical systems Hariklia Deligianni, Thomas J. Fleischman, Robert A. Groves, Charles J. Montrose, Richard P. Volant +1 more 2009-10-13 $16,422,000
6383920 Process of enclosing via for improved reliability in dual damascene interconnects Ping-Chuan Wang, Ronald G. Filippi, Edward W. Kiewra, Roy Iggulden 2002-05-07 $13,479,000
5760595 High temperature electromigration stress test system, test socket, and use thereof Du Nguyen, James J. Poulin, Hazara S. Rathore, Richard G. Smith 1998-06-02 $5,806,000