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Douglas A. Sprock — 10 Patents

Intel: 10 patents #4,072 of 30,777Top 15%
San Jose, CA: #6,421 of 32,062 inventorsTop 25%
California: #61,378 of 386,348 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #481,000 of 4,157,543Top 15%
10 Patents All Time
Douglas A. Sprock has been granted 10 US patents while listed as an inventor at Intel. The first was granted in 2003 and the most recent in December 2008. Douglas A. Sprock ranks #481,000 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 11.6%). Patent records list Douglas A. Sprock in San Jose, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2003 to 2008Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2005.peak 52003: 1 patents20032004: 3 patents20042005: 5 patents20052008: 1 patents2008

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–10 of 10 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7468996 External cavity laser tuning element dither servo control Andrew Daiber, Anand S. Ramalingam, Jiann-Chang Lo, William B. Chapman 2008-12-23 $101,669,000
6974934 Remote reference resistor Robert Carney, David Thiesen 2005-12-13 $11,810,000
6940881 Tunable laser with wavelength locking George Pontis, Robert Carney 2005-09-06 $17,626,000
6917632 Interrupt driven wavelength locking Kenneth P. Koller, Rajesh K. Batra, Robert Carney 2005-07-12 $27,947,000
6904070 Tunable laser and laser current source George Pontis, Robert Carney 2005-06-07 $27,808,000
6870867 Tunable laser temperature sensing control system George Pontis, Robert Carney 2005-03-22 $25,941,000
6829268 Synchronous servo control for a tunable laser George Pontis, Robert Carney, Ken Koller, Rajesh K. Batra 2004-12-07 $37,431,000
6829259 Tunable laser control system with optical path length modulation George Pontis, Robert Carney 2004-12-07 $37,431,000
6798800 Method and apparatus to sense temperature of thermal tuning elements in tunable optical devices Robert Carney, Timothy Robertson 2004-09-28 $27,830,000
6631146 Tunable laser control system George Pontis, Robert Carney 2003-10-07 $52,834,000