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Robert Hitzfeld — 7 Patents

IBM: 4 patents #21,783 of 70,183Top 35%
SESemitool: 3 patents #59 of 141Top 45%
San Jose, CA: #8,545 of 32,062 inventorsTop 30%
California: #83,669 of 386,348 inventorsTop 25%
Overall (All Time): #680,018 of 4,157,543Top 20%
7 Patents All Time
Robert Hitzfeld has been granted 7 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1994 and the most recent in January 2005. Robert Hitzfeld ranks #680,018 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 16.4%). Patent records list Robert Hitzfeld in San Jose, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1994 to 2005Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2001.peak 21994: 1 patents19942001: 2 patents20012002: 2 patents20022003: 1 patents20032005: 1 patents2005

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–7 of 7 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
6843894 Cathode current control system for a wafer electroplating apparatus Robert W. Berner, Joseph J. Fatula, Jr., Richard J. Contreras, Andrew Chiu 2005-01-18 $1,908,000
6627051 Cathode current control system for a wafer electroplating apparatus Robert W. Berner, Joseph J. Fatula, Jr., Richard J. Contreras, Andrew Chiu 2003-09-30 $4,355,000
6500316 Apparatus for rotary cathode electroplating with wireless power transfer Joseph J. Fatula, Jr., Richard J. Contreras, Guillermo Prada-Silva, Andrew Chiu, Rainer Schieferstein 2002-12-31 $15,139,000
6437472 Apparatus for wireless transfer of power to a rotating element Joseph J. Fatula, Jr., Richard J. Contreras, Guillermo Prada-Silva, Andrew Chiu, Rainer Schieferstein 2002-08-20 $9,830,000
6322674 Cathode current control system for a wafer electroplating apparatus Robert W. Berner, Joseph J. Fatula, Jr., Richard J. Contreras, Andrew Chiu 2001-11-27 $1,267,000
6278210 Rotary element apparatus with wireless power transfer Joseph J. Fatula, Jr., Richard J. Contreras, Guillermo Prada-Silva, Andrew Chiu, Rainer Schieferstein 2001-08-21 $21,309,000
5312532 Multi-compartment eletroplating system Panayotis Andricacos, Moritz Branger, Robert M. Browne, John O. Dukovic, Benjamin W. B. Fu +4 more 1994-05-17 $6,984,000