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Michael A. Mills — 20 Patents

MAMasimo: 8 patents #73 of 217Top 35%
GTGroup14 Technologies: 4 patents #52 of 259Top 25%
THTaylor Hobson: 3 patents #5 of 34Top 15%
T(Tyco Telecommunications (Us): 3 patents #24 of 98Top 25%
OHOhmeda: 1 patents #44 of 114Top 40%
Houston, TX: #1,002 of 21,073 inventorsTop 5%
Texas: #6,926 of 125,132 inventorsTop 6%
Overall (All Time): #214,803 of 4,157,543Top 6%
20 Patents All Time
Michael A. Mills has been granted 20 US patents while listed as an inventor at Masimo. The first was granted in 1990 and the most recent in February 2018. Michael A. Mills ranks #214,803 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.2%). Patent records list Michael A. Mills in Houston, TX, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1990 to 2018Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2004.peak 31990: 1 patents19901998: 1 patents1999: 2 patents19992000: 1 patents2001: 2 patents20012003: 2 patents2004: 3 patents20042006: 2 patents2008: 1 patents20082012: 1 patents2015: 1 patents20152016: 1 patents2017: 1 patents20172018: 1 patents2018

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–20 of 20 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9883654 Arrangement of milking box stalls Henk Hofman, Cor de Ruijter, Menno Koekoek, Peter Willem van der Sluis 2018-02-06
9737048 Arrangement of milking box stalls Henk Hofman, Cor de Ruijter, Menno Koekoek, Peter Willem van der Sluis 2017-08-22
9282720 Arrangement of milking box stalls Henk Hofman, Cor de Ruijter, Menno Koekoek, Peter Willem van der Sluis 2016-03-15
9107379 Arrangement of milking box stalls Henk Hofman, Cor de Ruijter, Menno Koekoek, Peter Willem van der Sluis 2015-08-18
8296098 Metrological instrument 2012-10-23
7332784 Method of providing an optoelectronic element with a non-protruding lens James P. Coffin, IV 2008-02-19 $19,403,000
7085039 Hybrid Raman/erbium-doped fiber amplifier and transmission system with dispersion map Dmitri Foursa, Morten Nissov, Alexei N. Pilipetskii, Chinlon Lin, Bo Pedersen 2006-08-01 $46,322,000
7067893 Optoelectronic element with a non-protruding lens James P. Coffin, IV 2006-06-27
6830711 Mold tool for an optoelectronic element James P. Coffin, IV 2004-12-14
6751012 Method and apparatus for measuring noise figure in optical amplifiers Morten Nissov, Yanjie Chai, Gregory M. Wolter, George T. Harvey 2004-06-15 $76,121,000
6731381 Method and apparatus to measure gain spectra of erbium doped fiber amplifier Chinlon Lin, Morten Nissov 2004-05-04 $63,640,000
6594532 Movement control by a metrological instrument 2003-07-15
6525386 Non-protruding optoelectronic lens James P. Coffin, IV 2003-02-25
6327788 Surface form measurement Peter Seddon, Paul Scott, Roy George White, Derek Roger Whittle 2001-12-11
6184521 Photodiode detector with integrated noise shielding James P. Coffin, IV, Thomas J. Gerhardt, Massi E. Kiani 2001-02-06
6165005 Patient cable sensor switch Thomas J. Gerhardt 2000-12-26
5997343 Patient cable sensor switch Thomas J. Gerhardt 1999-12-07
5890929 Shielded medical connector Robert A. Smith 1999-04-06
5807248 Medical monitoring probe with modular device housing 1998-09-15
D312048 Baseball card grade gauge 1990-11-13