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Andrew J. Devitt — 25 Patents

NCNew Way Machine Components: 20 patents #1 of 8Top 15%
UNUnknown: 2 patents #12,644 of 83,584Top 20%
Media, PA: #20 of 402 inventorsTop 5%
Pennsylvania: #2,479 of 74,527 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #158,593 of 4,157,543Top 4%
25 Patents All Time
Andrew J. Devitt has been granted 25 US patents while listed as an inventor at New Way Machine Components. The first was granted in 1996 and the most recent in July 2024. Andrew J. Devitt ranks #158,593 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.8%). Patent records list Andrew J. Devitt in Media, PA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1996 to 2024Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2018.peak 31996: 1 patents19962008: 1 patents2010: 1 patents20102011: 1 patents2012: 2 patents20122013: 1 patents2014: 2 patents20142015: 1 patents2016: 1 patents20162017: 1 patents2018: 3 patents20182019: 3 patents2020: 1 patents20202021: 1 patents2022: 1 patents20222023: 3 patents2024: 1 patents2024

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 25 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
12044272 Air bearing for use as seal Richard Duane Pollick 2024-07-23
11781593 Electrostatic dissipative externally pressurized porous bearings Joshua A. Schaffstall, Dakota H. Peirce, Michael T. Sabol, Richard Duane Pollick 2023-10-10
11767883 Externally pressurized porous gas bearings or seals operating on refrigerant utilizing shear heat from rotating shaft to achieve increased load capacity 2023-09-26
11619263 Externally pressurized oil-free freon bearing Richard Duane Pollick 2023-04-04
11536316 Externally pressurized porous gas bearings or seals operating on refrigerant utilizing shear heat from rotating shaft to achieve increased load capacity 2022-12-27
11078957 Externally pressurized porous gas bearings or seals operating on refrigerant utilizing shear heat from rotating shaft to achieve increased load capacity 2021-08-03
10598222 Air bearing for use as seal Richard Duane Pollick 2020-03-24
10501850 Method and a device for depositing a film of material or otherwise processing or inspecting, a substrate as it passes through a vacuum environment guided by a plurality of opposing and balanced air bearing lands and sealed by differentially pumped grooves and sealing lands in a non-contact manner 2019-12-10
10323687 Snap joint for externally pressurized gas bearings James Allen 2019-06-18
10294057 Gas bearing, porous media vacuum roller and porous media air turn Richard Duane Pollick 2019-05-21
10100932 Thrust bearing as a seal 2018-10-16
10030666 Porous media ventless seal 2018-07-24
RE46691 Hydrostatic bearing made of magnetic material which is also used as a motor magnet 2018-01-30
9598758 Vertical axis wind turbine 2017-03-21
9441668 Air bearing for use as seal 2016-09-13
8943688 Method of manufacturing large steel rings 2015-02-03
8795769 Method and a device for depositing a film of material or otherwise processing or inspecting, a substrate as it passes through a vacuum environment guided by a plurality of opposing and balanced air bearing lands and sealed by differentially pumped groves and sealing lands in a non-contact manner 2014-08-05
8753014 Air bearing for use as a seal 2014-06-17
8427021 Hydrostatic bearing made of magnetic material which is also used as a motor magnet 2013-04-23
8217526 Gearless vertical axis wind turbine with bearing support and power generation at perimeter 2012-07-10
8123868 Method and apparatus for in-line processing and immediately sequential or simultaneous processing of flat and flexible substrates through viscous shear in thin cross section gaps for the manufacture of micro-electronic circuits or displays 2012-02-28
7908885 Non-contact porous air bearing and glass flattening device 2011-03-22
7642523 Vacuum chamber stage with application of vacuum from below 2010-01-05
7394076 Moving vacuum chamber stage with air bearing and differentially pumped grooves 2008-07-01
5488771 Method for manufacturing externally pressurized bearing assemblies Alex Slocum 1996-02-06