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Daniel Theodore Crowley — 16 Patents

SCSputtering Components: 9 patents #1 of 5Top 20%
VFViratec Thin Films: 4 patents #6 of 27Top 25%
BABühler Ag: 1 patents #50 of 175Top 30%
TRTruvue: 1 patents #6 of 20Top 30%
Applied Materials: 1 patents #4,824 of 7,310Top 70%
Owatonna, MN: #27 of 233 inventorsTop 15%
Minnesota: #4,638 of 52,454 inventorsTop 9%
Overall (All Time): #284,196 of 4,157,543Top 7%
16 Patents All Time
Daniel Theodore Crowley has been granted 16 US patents while listed as an inventor at Sputtering Components. The first was granted in 1995 and the most recent in July 2020. Daniel Theodore Crowley ranks #284,196 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 6.8%). Patent records list Daniel Theodore Crowley in Owatonna, MN, US.

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Showing 1–16 of 16 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10727034 Magnetic force release for sputtering sources with magnetic target materials Patrick Lawrence Morse 2020-07-28
10699885 Dual power feed rotary sputtering cathode Patrick Lawrence Morse 2020-06-30
RE46599 Sputtering apparatus William A. Meredith, Jr. 2017-11-07
9418823 Sputtering apparatus Patrick Lawrence Morse, John R. German 2016-08-16
9406487 Plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) source Patrick Lawrence Morse, William A. Meredith, Jr., John R. German, Michelle Lynn Neal 2016-08-02
9312108 Sputtering apparatus Patrick Lawrence Morse, John R. German, William A. Meredith, Jr. 2016-04-12
8900428 Sputtering apparatus William A. Meredith, Jr. 2014-12-02
8182662 Rotary cathode for magnetron sputtering apparatus 2012-05-22
7905995 Alternating current rotatable sputter cathode John R. German, Brian Meinke, Roger L. Peterson 2011-03-15 $18,153,000
7399385 Alternating current rotatable sputter cathode John R. German, Brian Meinke, Roger L. Peterson 2008-07-15
6905579 Cylindrical magnetron target and spindle apparatus 2005-06-14
6841051 High-power ion sputtering magnetron 2005-01-11
5571393 Magnet housing for a sputtering cathode Clifford L. Taylor 1996-11-05 $1,430,000
5567289 Rotating floating magnetron dark-space shield and cone end Clifford L. Taylor 1996-10-22 $1,357,000
5539272 Rotating floating magnetron dark-space shield Clifford L. Taylor 1996-07-23 $750,000
5413688 Shutter apparatus for a coating chamber viewport 1995-05-09 $270,000