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Stephen C. Thompson — 11 Patents

KEKnowles Electronics: 6 patents #50 of 325Top 20%
GOGould: 2 patents #72 of 364Top 20%
PSPenn State: 1 patents #667 of 1,788Top 40%
Schlumberger Technology: 1 patents #3,946 of 7,293Top 55%
WEWestinghouse Electric: 1 patents #3,711 of 5,212Top 75%
Euclid, OH: #32 of 312 inventorsTop 15%
Ohio: #7,244 of 73,341 inventorsTop 10%
Overall (All Time): #435,149 of 4,157,543Top 15%
11 Patents All Time
Stephen C. Thompson has been granted 11 US patents while listed as an inventor at Knowles Electronics. The first was granted in 1986 and the most recent in November 2022. Stephen C. Thompson ranks #435,149 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 10.5%). Patent records list Stephen C. Thompson in Euclid, OH, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1986 to 2022Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 1986.peak 21986: 2 patents19861991: 1 patents19912003: 1 patents20032006: 2 patents20062008: 2 patents20082013: 1 patents20132020: 1 patents20202022: 1 patents2022

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–11 of 11 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11516597 Force feedback actuator for a MEMS transducer Mohsin Nawaz, Michael Syskind PEDERSEN, Peter V. Loeppert, Zouhair Sbiaa 2022-11-29 $4,539,000
10532299 Self-cleaning filter Jerome Prost, Hy Phan, Soufiane Halily 2020-01-14 $27,545,000
8385583 Methods and apparatus for reduced distortion balanced armature devices 2013-02-26
7415125 Apparatus and method for creating acoustic energy in a receiver assembly with improved diaphragms-linkage arrangement Daniel Warren, David E. Schafer 2008-08-19
7336797 Apparatus and method for generating acoustic energy in a receiver assembly David E. Schafer, Daniel Warren 2008-02-26
7113604 Apparatus and method for matching the response of microphones in magnitude and phase 2006-09-26
7065220 Microphone array having a second order directional pattern Daniel Warren 2006-06-20
6654468 Apparatus and method for matching the response of microphones in magnitude and phase 2003-11-25
4996674 Double piston acoustic transducer with selectable directivity 1991-02-26 $5,723,000
4633119 Broadband multi-resonant longitudinal vibrator transducer 1986-12-30 $3,337,000
4604542 Broadband radial vibrator transducer with multiple resonant frequencies 1986-08-05 $4,129,000