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Roland Germann — 11 Patents

IBM: 11 patents #10,022 of 70,183Top 15%
Wangen, CH: #3 of 23 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #435,149 of 4,157,543Top 15%
11 Patents All Time
Roland Germann has been granted 11 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1998 and the most recent in November 2011. Roland Germann ranks #435,149 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 10.5%). Patent records list Roland Germann in Wangen, CH.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1998 to 2011Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2004.peak 41998: 1 patents19982002: 2 patents20022004: 4 patents20042006: 1 patents20062007: 1 patents20072009: 1 patents20092011: 1 patents2011

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–11 of 11 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8053037 Device and method for patterning structures on a substrate Siegfried F. Karg, Heike E. Riel, Walter Riess, Reto Schlittler 2011-11-08 $3,097,000
7486845 Waveguide polarization beam splitters and method of fabricating a waveguide wire-grid polarization beam splitter Charles T. Black, Gian-Luca Bona, Timothy J. Dalton, Nicholas C. M. Fuller, Maurice McGlashan-Powell +2 more 2009-02-03 $3,057,000
7298935 Waveguide polarization beam splitters and method of fabricating a waveguide wire-grid polarization beam splitter Charles T. Black, Gian-Luca Bona, Timothy J. Dalton, Nicholas C. M. Fuller, Maurice McGlashan-Powell +2 more 2007-11-20 $7,065,000
6995391 Electrode structure for electronic and opto-electronic devices Santos F. Alvarado, Tilman Beierlein, Brian Crone, Ute Drechsler, Siegfried F. Karg +6 more 2006-02-07 $5,045,000
6819841 Self-aligned optical waveguide to optical fiber connection system David V. Horak, Akihisa Sekiguchi 2004-11-16 $5,414,000
6782177 Method for manufacturing an optical device with a defined total device stress Gian-Luca Bona, Ingmar G. Meijer, Bert Jan Offrein, Huub Salemink, Dorothea Wiesmann 2004-08-24 $9,549,000
6768857 Method for manufacturing an optical device with a defined total device stress Gian-Luca Bona, Ingmar G. Meijer, Bert Jan Offrein, Huub Salemink, Dorothea Wiesmann 2004-07-27 $9,809,000
6678452 Optical waveguide device Peter Bloechl, Gian-Luca Bona, Folkert Horst, Ilana Massarek, Bert Jan Offrein +1 more 2004-01-13 $10,539,000
6501895 Optical device with a defined total device stress and method for manufacturing it Peter Bloechl, Gian-Luca Bona, Horst Folkert, Illana Massarek, Bert Jan Offrein +2 more 2002-12-31 $15,139,000
6483966 Singlemode lightwaveguide-coupling element Gian-Luca Bona, Bert Jan Offrein, Huub Salemink 2002-11-19 $21,860,000
5740117 Optical memory for storing data Gian-Luca Bona, Huub Salemink 1998-04-14 $13,289,000