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Robert L. Holman — 44 Patents

Qualcomm: 19 patents #1,180 of 12,104Top 10%
3M: 11 patents #1,445 of 11,543Top 15%
DIDigitaloptics Corporation International: 9 patents #1 of 14Top 8%
Xerox: 2 patents #3,932 of 8,622Top 50%
SNSnaptrack: 1 patents #76 of 213Top 40%
NINioptics: 1 patents #4 of 5Top 80%
BIBattelle Memorial Institute: 1 patents #1,360 of 2,462Top 60%
San Jose, CA: #1,224 of 32,062 inventorsTop 4%
California: #9,924 of 386,348 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #66,838 of 4,157,543Top 2%
44 Patents All Time
Robert L. Holman has been granted 44 US patents while listed as an inventor at Qualcomm. The first was granted in 1983 and the most recent in July 2019. Robert L. Holman ranks #66,838 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.6%). Patent records list Robert L. Holman in San Jose, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1983 to 2019Bar chart with a peak of 6 patents in 2015.peak 61983: 1 patents19831987: 1 patents1988: 1 patents1994: 1 patents19941996: 1 patents1997: 1 patents1999: 2 patents19992000: 1 patents2001: 1 patents2002: 2 patents20022003: 2 patents2005: 1 patents2006: 2 patents20062007: 2 patents2008: 3 patents2009: 2 patents20092013: 1 patents2014: 5 patents2015: 6 patents20152016: 5 patents2017: 2 patents2019: 1 patents2019

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 44 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10353210 Self-aligning travelling collimating lens for sweeping laser John Michael Wyrwas, Russell Wayne Gruhlke, Khurshid Syed Alam, Kebin Li 2019-07-16 $12,534,000
9823411 Etendue-preserving light coupling system having light output aperture smaller than light input aperture 2017-11-21 $12,071,000
9678329 Angled facets for display devices Kristopher Andrew Lavery, Ming-Hau Tung 2017-06-13 $7,359,000
9448353 Illumination device having a tapered light guide Matthew B. Sampsell 2016-09-20 $8,214,000
9395479 Illumination device having a tapered light guide Matthew B. Sampsell 2016-07-19 $9,830,000
9377183 Low-profile lighting systems Jeffrey B. Sampsell, Matthew B. Sampsell 2016-06-28 $6,586,000
9291806 Beam pattern projector with modulating array of light sources Matthew B. Sampsell 2016-03-22 $7,748,000
9244212 Illumination device having a tapered light guide Matthew B. Sampsell 2016-01-26 $6,427,000
9223080 Light guide with narrow angle light output and methods 2015-12-29 $7,668,000
9170474 Efficient spatially modulated illumination system Matthew B. Sampsell 2015-10-27 $8,005,000
9081190 Voltage controlled microlens sheet Matthew B. Sampsell 2015-07-14 $5,057,000
9004722 Low-profile LED heat management system Matthew B. Sampsell 2015-04-14 $11,978,000
8979347 Illumination systems and methods 2015-03-17 $10,891,000
8926158 Array illumination system Matthew B. Sampsell 2015-01-06 $8,379,000
8911102 Low-profile lighting system Matthew B. Sampsell 2014-12-16 $16,670,000
8845115 Flash illumination system Matthew B. Sampsell 2014-09-30 $5,793,000
8740439 Thin illumination system Matthew B. Sampsell 2014-06-03 $5,999,000
8721149 Illumination device having a tapered light guide Matthew B. Sampsell 2014-05-13 $8,617,000
8674616 Distributed illumination system Matthew B. Sampsell, Jeffrey B. Sampsell 2014-03-18 $8,578,000
8348489 Thin illumination system Matthew B. Sampsell 2013-01-08 $16,682,000
7587117 Luminaire device Roland Winston, Benjamin A. Jacobson, Robert M. Emmons, Philip Gleckman 2009-09-08 $47,710,000
7520642 High-density illumination system Arthur Cox 2009-04-21
7424197 Luminaire device Roland Winston, Benjamin A. Jacobson, Robert M. Emmons, Philip Gleckman 2008-09-09 $21,968,000
7418188 Luminaire device Roland Winston, Benjamin A. Jacobson, Robert M. Emmons, Philip Gleckman 2008-08-26 $21,602,000
7400439 Uniform illumination system 2008-07-15