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Samuel E. Blum — 7 Patents

IBM: 7 patents #14,688 of 70,183Top 25%
White Plains, NY: #247 of 917 inventorsTop 30%
New York: #20,477 of 115,490 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #680,018 of 4,157,543Top 20%
7 Patents All Time
Samuel E. Blum has been granted 7 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1980 and the most recent in November 1988. Samuel E. Blum ranks #680,018 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 16.4%). Patent records list Samuel E. Blum in White Plains, NY, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1980 to 1988Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 1986.peak 21980: 1 patents19801983: 1 patents19831984: 1 patents19841986: 2 patents19861987: 1 patents19871988: 1 patents1988

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–7 of 7 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
4784135 Far ultraviolet surgical and dental procedures Rangaswamy Srinivasan, James J. Wynne 1988-11-15 $15,502,000
4674442 Process and apparatus for producing high purity oxidation on a semiconductor substrate 1987-06-23 $33,440,000
4606935 Process and apparatus for producing high purity oxidation on a semiconductor substrate 1986-08-19 $21,445,000
4568632 Patterning of polyimide films with far ultraviolet light Karen L. Holloway, Rangaswamy Srinivasan 1986-02-04 $19,748,000
4451503 Photo deposition of metals with far UV radiation Karen H. Brown, Rangaswamy Srinivasan 1984-05-29 $18,931,000
4414059 Far UV patterning of resist materials Karen H. Brown, Rangaswamy Srinivasan 1983-11-08 $19,258,000
4239789 Maskless method for electroless plating patterns Zlata Kovac, Robert J. von Gutfeld 1980-12-16 $15,501,000