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Stephen Eldon Leis — 5 Patents

NDNorthern Digital: 5 patents #5 of 47Top 15%
Waterloo, CA: #583 of 2,098 inventorsTop 30%
Overall (All Time): #907,971 of 4,157,543Top 25%
5 Patents All Time
Stephen Eldon Leis has been granted 5 US patents while listed as an inventor at Northern Digital. The first was granted in 1998 and the most recent in March 2007. Stephen Eldon Leis ranks #907,971 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 21.8%). Patent records list Stephen Eldon Leis in Waterloo, ON, CA.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1998 to 2007Bar chart with a peak of 1 patents in 1998.peak 11998: 1 patents19981999: 1 patents19992000: 1 patents20002001: 1 patents20012007: 1 patents2007

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–5 of 5 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
7194296 Flexible instrument with optical sensors Donald Dieter Frantz, Paul Clausen, Terry Fisher 2007-03-20
6288785 System for determining spatial position and/or orientation of one or more objects Donald Dieter Frantz, Stefan Kirsch, Christian Schilling 2001-09-11
6061644 System for determining the spatial position and orientation of a body 2000-05-09
5923417 System for determining the spatial position of a target 1999-07-13
5828770 System for determining the spatial position and angular orientation of an object David Ristau 1998-10-27