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Thomas G. Ference — 45 Patents

IBM: 33 patents #3,003 of 70,183Top 5%
TRTeracomm Research: 6 patents #2 of 3Top 70%
ITInterphase Technologies: 1 patents #2 of 5Top 40%
LELeddynamics: 1 patents #9 of 10Top 90%
UNUnknown: 1 patents #29,356 of 83,584Top 40%
South Burlington, VT: #45 of 1,136 inventorsTop 4%
Vermont: #146 of 4,968 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #64,393 of 4,157,543Top 2%
45 Patents All Time
Thomas G. Ference has been granted 45 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1993 and the most recent in July 2024. Thomas G. Ference ranks #64,393 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.5%). Patent records list Thomas G. Ference in South Burlington, VT, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 45 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
D1033272 Flag 2024-07-02
D1025828 Flag 2024-05-07
10088142 LED light tube William R. McGrath, Oliver Piluski, Daniel Miller Poitrast 2018-10-02
9074859 Marking cartridge Kathleen M. Dever 2015-07-07
7407302 Luminescent pop-up candy Harvey Allard 2008-08-05
7134933 Wafer thickness control during backside grind Donald W. Brouillette, Harold G. Linde, Michael S. Hibbs, Ronald L. Mendelson 2006-11-14 $5,090,000
7006234 Common-path point-diffraction phase-shifting interferometer incorporating a birefringent polymer membrane William J. Cottrell 2006-02-28 $420,000
6921018 Multi-chip stack and method of fabrication utilizing self-aligning electrical contact array Wayne J. Howell 2005-07-26 $7,521,000
6915795 Method and system for dicing wafers, and semiconductor structures incorporating the products thereof Donald W. Brouillette, Robert F. Cook, Wayne J. Howell, Eric G. Liniger, Ronald L. Mendelson 2005-07-12 $9,006,000
6887126 Wafer thickness control during backside grind Donald W. Brouillette, Harold G. Linde, Michael S. Hibbs, Ronald L. Mendelson 2005-05-03 $8,163,000
6858941 Multi-chip stack and method of fabrication utilizing self-aligning electrical contact array Wayne J. Howell 2005-02-22 $11,368,000
6838749 Structures for increasing the critical temperature of superconductors Kenneth A. Puzey 2005-01-04
6813056 High amplitude fast optical modulator William J. Cottrell, Kenneth A. Puzey 2004-11-02
6770501 Deuterium reservoirs and ingress paths Jay Burnham, Eduard A. Cartier, Steven W. Mittl, Anthony K. Stamper 2004-08-03 $6,296,000
6642080 Chip-on-chip interconnections of varied characterstics Wayne J. Howell, Edmund J. Sprogis 2003-11-04 $11,371,000
6630426 Method of increasing the critical temperature of a high critical temperature superconducting film and a superconducting structure made using the method Kenneth A. Puzey 2003-10-07
6611050 Chip edge interconnect apparatus and method Wayne J. Howell, William R. Tonti, Richard Q. Williams 2003-08-26 $17,117,000
6600213 Semiconductor structure and package including a chip having chamfered edges Donald W. Brouillette, Robert F. Cook, Wayne J. Howell, Eric G. Liniger, Ronald L. Mendelson 2003-07-29 $10,466,000
6534389 Dual level contacts and method for forming Kurt R. Kimmel, Alain Loiseau, Jed H. Rankin 2003-03-18 $13,080,000
6521977 Deuterium reservoirs and ingress paths Jay Burnham, Eduard A. Cartier, Steven W. Mittl, Anthony K. Stamper 2003-02-18 $14,090,000
6517944 Multi-layer passivation barrier for a superconducting element Kenneth A. Puzey 2003-02-11
6476956 Fast optical modulator William J. Cottrell, Kenneth A. Puzey 2002-11-05
6455778 Micro-flex technology in semiconductor packages Claude L. Bertin, Wayne J. Howell, John A. Fifield 2002-09-24 $8,983,000
6444490 Micro-flex technology in semiconductor packages Claude L. Bertin, Wayne J. Howell, John A. Fifield 2002-09-03 $9,688,000
6429958 Extinction ratio optical communication device using superconducting films Kenneth A. Puzey, William J. Cottrell 2002-08-06