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William Albert Challener — 95 Patents

STSeagate Technology: 56 patents #52 of 4,701Top 2%
GE: 18 patents #1,615 of 36,430Top 5%
IMImation: 13 patents #15 of 622Top 3%
3M: 3 patents #4,239 of 11,543Top 40%
BCBaker Hughes, A Ge Company: 2 patents #432 of 1,459Top 30%
GUGlobal Life Sciences Solutions Usa: 1 patents #84 of 153Top 55%
BHBaker Hughes Holdings: 1 patents #1,949 of 3,522Top 60%
Niskayuna, NY: #20 of 949 inventorsTop 3%
New York: #624 of 115,490 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #16,077 of 4,157,543Top 1%
95 Patents All Time
William Albert Challener has been granted 95 US patents while listed as an inventor at Seagate Technology. The first was granted in 1992 and the most recent in March 2023. William Albert Challener ranks #16,077 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.39%). Patent records list William Albert Challener in Niskayuna, NY, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 95 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11609142 Gas sensor system 2023-03-21
11492903 Systems and methods for enthalpy monitoring of a fluid Emad Andarawis Andarawis, David Milford Shaddock, Sameer Dinkar Vartak 2022-11-08 $37,781,000
11435252 Gas sensor system 2022-09-06 $23,573,000
11287408 Gas sensor including optic fiber connector Jason Harris Karp 2022-03-29 $83,513,000
11249011 Apparatus and method for evanescent waveguide sensing 2022-02-15
10942198 MEMS accelerometer anti-reflective and reflector coatings 2021-03-09 $81,048,000
10830787 Optical accelerometers for use in navigation grade environments Mengli Wang 2020-11-10 $10,622,000
10816458 Gas analysis system Ansas Matthias Kasten, Jason Harris Karp, Cheng-Po Chen 2020-10-27 $9,227,000
10816520 Gas analysis system Ansas Matthias Kasten 2020-10-27 $9,227,000
10753864 Gas analysis system Ansas Matthias Kasten 2020-08-25 $13,435,000
10634890 Miniaturized microscope for phase contrast and multicolor fluorescence imaging Ansas Matthias Kasten, Jason Harris Karp, Sudeep Mandal 2020-04-28 $12,761,000
10488429 Resonant opto-mechanical accelerometer for use in navigation grade environments Sergey Alexandrovich Zotov, Ansas Matthias Kasten, Yizhen Lin, Jason Harris Karp, Aaron Jay Knobloch 2019-11-26 $17,257,000
9910014 Methods and systems for detecting gas flow by photoacoustic signal generation Niloy Choudhury 2018-03-06 $13,192,000
9823184 Distributed gas detection system and method Sabarni Palit, Jason Harris Karp, Ansas Matthias Kasten, Niloy Choudhury 2017-11-21 $20,785,000
9805757 HAMR NFT materials with improved thermal stability Tong Zhao, Michael C. Kautzky, Michael Allen Seigler 2017-10-31 $7,487,000
9792946 Patterned media for heat assisted recording Ibrahim Kursat Sendur, Chubing Peng 2017-10-17 $7,759,000
9791619 Microstructured optical fibers for gas sensing systems Niloy Choudhury, Sabarni Palit 2017-10-17 $23,535,000
9512715 Systems and methods for pressure and temperature measurement Li Airey 2016-12-06 $17,899,000
9508368 Slider for heat assisted magnetic recording including a thermal sensor for monitoring laser power Edward Charles Gage, Lifu Zhou, Michael Allen Seigler, James Dillon Kiely, Kaizhong Gao 2016-11-29 $10,548,000
9488786 Fiber optic sensing apparatus including fiber gratings and method for sensing parameters involving different parameter modalities Glen Peter Koste, Raymond Verle Jensen, Hua Xia, Boon Kwee Lee, Victor Petrovich Ostroverkhov +1 more 2016-11-08 $19,191,000
9355661 Integrated head for heat assisted magnetic recording Michael Allen Seigler, Sharat Batra, Hua Zhou 2016-05-31 $8,175,000
9341532 Systems and methods for distributed pressure sensing Glen Peter Koste, Sachin Narahari Dekate, Sabarni Palit 2016-05-17 $26,969,000
9329102 Optical monitoring system for a gas turbine engine Wontae Hwang, Jason Harris Karp 2016-05-03 $17,347,000
9250140 Systems and methods for multiplexing sensors along a cable 2016-02-02 $20,555,000
9240262 Systems and methods for distributed pressure sensing Sabami Palit 2016-01-19 $41,537,000