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Joshua T. Oen — 27 Patents

Intel: 8 patents #4,914 of 30,777Top 20%
Intuitive Surgical: 8 patents #194 of 719Top 30%
ALAsyst Technologies L.L.C.: 5 patents #13 of 93Top 15%
PAPaccar: 3 patents #199 of 678Top 30%
BLBio-Rad Laboratories: 2 patents #325 of 739Top 45%
Applied Materials: 1 patents #4,824 of 7,310Top 70%
Fremont, CA: #588 of 9,298 inventorsTop 7%
California: #19,967 of 386,348 inventorsTop 6%
Overall (All Time): #142,059 of 4,157,543Top 4%
27 Patents All Time
Joshua T. Oen has been granted 27 US patents while listed as an inventor at Intuitive Surgical. The first was granted in 1987 and the most recent in March 2025. Joshua T. Oen ranks #142,059 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.4%). Patent records list Joshua T. Oen in Fremont, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1987 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2007.peak 51987: 2 patents19871989: 1 patents1996: 1 patents19961998: 2 patents1999: 1 patents19992003: 1 patents2004: 1 patents20042005: 2 patents2006: 1 patents20062007: 5 patents2012: 1 patents20122013: 1 patents2015: 1 patents20152017: 2 patents2019: 1 patents20192021: 2 patents2022: 1 patents20222025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 27 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12239987 System and method for droplet detection David Stumbo, George Carman, Steve Hobbs, Anthony Makarewicz, Dmitri Simonian +3 more 2025-03-04
11499183 System and method for droplet detection David Stumbo, George Carman, Steve Hobbs, Anthony Makarewicz, Dmitri Simonian +3 more 2022-11-15
11154185 Robotic linkage Christoph Matthias Pistor 2021-10-26 $176,968,000
10952594 Segmented instrument having braking capabilities Jay Gurusamy, Carson Shellenberger, Christopher Julian 2021-03-23 $169,831,000
10433716 Robotic linkage Christoph Matthias Pistor 2019-10-08 $84,625,000
9737199 Robotic linkage Christoph Matthias Pistor 2017-08-22 $41,573,000
9687986 Robotic linkage Christoph Matthias Pistor 2017-06-27 $29,489,000
9220398 System for managing Bowden cables in articulating instruments Bruce Woodley, Aaron Brown, Chris Julian, Keith Phillip Laby, Wade A. Keller +4 more 2015-12-29 $32,210,000
8608647 Systems and methods for articulating an elongate body Kevin Durant, David S. Mintz, Keith Phillip Laby 2013-12-17 $38,173,000
8182418 Systems and methods for articulating an elongate body Kevin Durant, David S. Mintz, Keith Phillip Laby 2012-05-22 $13,125,000
7300303 Method and apparatus for attaching flexible circuit to a rigid printed circuit board Peter E. Kirkpatrick, Sang Bo KIM, Marc Epitaux, Colm Hunt 2007-11-27 $22,929,000
7281862 Optical device latching mechanism Daehwan Kim, Ching-Ling Meng 2007-10-16 $25,589,000
7223027 Optical communications adapter module configured for use inside a XENPAK-sized module Thomas Mader, Dana Rose, Daehwan Kim, Steve J. Buchheit, deceased 2007-05-29 $13,871,000
7215558 EMI shield for transceiver Craig Schultz, Todd M. Petit 2007-05-08 $17,693,000
7172346 Optical communications adapter, system and method Thomas Mader, Daehwan Kim 2007-02-06 $13,917,000
7092639 EMI shield for reducing clock jitter of a transceiver Craig Schultz 2006-08-15 $13,533,000
6980439 EMI shield for transceiver Craig Schultz, Todd M. Petit 2005-12-27 $17,238,000
6846986 Optical module ground strip Arie Ravid, Richard H. Hsu 2005-01-25 $26,797,000
6679755 Chemical mechanical planarization system Phillip R. Sommer, Paul D. Butterfield, Ching-Ling Meng 2004-01-20 $55,713,000
6579052 SMIF pod storage, delivery and retrieval system Anthony C. Bonora, Raymond S. Martin, Robert Netsch, Terry Mosier, William J. Fosnight 2003-06-17 $5,662,000
5931631 Method and apparatus for vertical transfer of a semiconductor wafer cassette Anthony C. Bonora, Michael A. Neads 1999-08-03 $6,588,000
5846338 Method for dry cleaning clean room containers Anthony C. Bonora, N. Kedarnath 1998-12-08 $3,910,000
5788458 Method and apparatus for vertical transfer of a semiconductor wafer cassette Anthony C. Bonora, Michael A. Neads 1998-08-04 $2,613,000
5586585 Direct loadlock interface Anthony C. Bonora 1996-12-24 $1,551,000
4797792 Forward light housing assembly 1989-01-10 $8,107,000