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Thomas Ludwig — 24 Patents

IBM: 23 patents #4,699 of 70,183Top 7%
Motorola: 1 patents #8,218 of 14,142Top 60%
Overall (All Time): #168,038 of 4,157,543Top 5%
24 Patents All Time
Thomas Ludwig has been granted 24 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1989 and the most recent in February 2015. Thomas Ludwig ranks #168,038 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.0%). Patent records list Thomas Ludwig in Sindelfingen, IL, DE.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1989 to 2015Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2013.peak 41989: 1 patents19891990: 1 patents1991: 1 patents19911992: 1 patents1994: 1 patents19941997: 1 patents1998: 1 patents19981999: 2 patents2005: 1 patents20052007: 1 patents2008: 3 patents20082010: 1 patents2011: 3 patents20112013: 4 patents2014: 1 patents20142015: 1 patents2015

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–24 of 24 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8963294 Dense chevron finFET and method of manufacturing same Jochen Beintner, Edward J. Nowak 2015-02-24 $3,851,000
8762919 Circuit macro placement using macro aspect ratio based on ports Joachim Keinert, Juergen Koehl 2014-06-24 $6,231,000
8495551 Shaping ports in integrated circuit design Joachim Keinert 2013-07-23 $2,085,000
8429584 Method, electronic design automation tool, computer program product, and data processing program for creating a layout for design representation of an electronic circuit and corresponding port for an electronic circuit Joachim Keinert 2013-04-23 $7,839,000
8423947 Gridded glyph geometric objects (L3GO) design method Mark A. Lavin, Gregory A. Northrop, Robert T. Sayah 2013-04-16 $3,567,000
8418110 Using port obscurity factors to improve routing Joachim Keinert 2013-04-09 $4,611,000
8020120 Layout quality gauge for integrated circuit design Fook-Luen Heng, Mark A. Lavin, Jin-Fuw Lee, Rama Nand Sing, Fanchieh Yee 2011-09-13 $4,804,000
7990158 Measurement arrangement for determining the characteristic line parameters by measuring scattering parameters Helmut Schettler, Thomas-Michael Winkel 2011-08-02 $4,890,000
7962877 Port assignment in hierarchical designs by abstracting macro logic Joachim Keinert, Juergen Koehl 2011-06-14 $3,503,000
7851283 Field effect transistor with raised source/drain fin straps Brent A. Anderson, Edward J. Nowak 2010-12-14 $5,212,000
7456471 Field effect transistor with raised source/drain fin straps Brent A. Anderson, Edward J. Nowak 2008-11-25 $6,627,000
7323374 Dense chevron finFET and method of manufacturing same Jochen Beintner, Edward J. Nowak 2008-01-29 $11,919,000
7315994 Method and device for automated layer generation for double-gate FinFET designs Ingo Aller, Veit Gernhoefer, Joachim Keinert 2008-01-01
7309626 Quasi self-aligned source/drain FinFET process Mei-Kei Ieong, Edward J. Nowak, Qiqing C. Ouyang 2007-12-18 $15,156,000
6909147 Multi-height FinFETS Ingo Aller, Joachim Keinert, Edward J. Nowak, BethAnn Rainey 2005-06-21 $6,933,000
5944772 Combined adder and logic unit Juergen Haas, Wilhelm Haller, Ulrich Krauch, Holger Wetter 1999-08-31 $31,470,000
5928319 Combined binary/decimal adder unit Wilhelm Haller, Ulrich Krauch, Holger Wetter 1999-07-27 $22,178,000
5744996 CMOS integrated semiconductor circuit Gunther Kotzle, Volker Kreuter, Helmut Schettler 1998-04-28 $8,659,000
5680063 Bi-directional voltage translator Richard Ng 1997-10-21 $22,782,000
5306866 Module for electronic package Harald Gruber, Heinz G. Horbach, Gunther Kotzle, Helmut Schettler 1994-04-26 $7,965,000
5162264 Integrated circuit package Werner Haug, Erich Klink, Karl E. Kroll, Helmut Schettler, Rainer Stahl +1 more 1992-11-10 $8,753,000
5016087 Integrated circuit package Werner Haug, Erich Klink, Karl E. Kroll, Helmut Schettler, Rainer Stahl +1 more 1991-05-14 $22,168,000
4967104 Circuit for increasing the output impedance of an amplifier Helmut Schettler, Otto Wagner, Rainer Zuhlke 1990-10-30 $20,407,000
4815113 Method for digital slope control of output signals of power amplifiers in semiconductor chips Helmut Schettler, Otto Wagner, Rainer Zuhlke 1989-03-21 $15,511,000