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John L. Vaught — 11 Patents

TITencor Instruments: 6 patents #5 of 50Top 10%
HP: 5 patents #3,830 of 7,018Top 55%
Palo Alto, CA: #2,109 of 9,675 inventorsTop 25%
California: #56,011 of 386,348 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #435,149 of 4,157,543Top 15%
11 Patents All Time
John L. Vaught has been granted 11 US patents while listed as an inventor at Tencor Instruments. The first was granted in 1982 and the most recent in January 1994. John L. Vaught ranks #435,149 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 10.5%). Patent records list John L. Vaught in Palo Alto, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1982 to 1994Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 1984.peak 31982: 1 patents19821984: 3 patents19841985: 1 patents19851989: 1 patents19891990: 2 patents19901991: 1 patents19911993: 1 patents19931994: 1 patents1994

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–11 of 11 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
5276498 Adaptive spatial filter for surface inspection Lee K. Galbraith, Ralph C. Wolf, Brian C. Leslie, Armand P. Neukermans 1994-01-04 $1,186,000
5264912 Speckle reduction track filter apparatus for optical inspection of patterned substrates Michael E. Fein, Armand P. Neukermans 1993-11-23 $1,143,000
5023424 Shock wave particle removal method and apparatus 1991-06-11
4967095 Method and apparatus for detecting and sizing particles on surfaces Josef Berger, Armand P. Neukermans 1990-10-30
4898471 Particle detection on patterned wafers and the like Armand P. Neukermans, Herman F. Keldermann, Franklin R. Koenig 1990-02-06
4861125 Suspension assembly for a scanning mirror 1989-08-29
4494128 Gray scale printing with ink jets 1985-01-15 $30,705,000
4490728 Thermal ink jet printer Frank L. Cloutier, David K. Donald, John D. Meyer, Christopher Tacklind, Howard H. Taub 1984-12-25
4490731 "Ink dispenser with ""frozen"" solid ink" 1984-12-25
4480259 Ink jet printer with bubble driven flexible membrane William P. Kruger 1984-10-30 $11,464,000
4336544 Method and apparatus for drop-on-demand ink jet printing David K. Donald, Michael Lee 1982-06-22 $16,111,000