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James Norman Hall — 26 Patents

TITexas Instruments: 23 patents #491 of 12,488Top 4%
EMEthan Allen Marketing: 2 patents #4 of 6Top 70%
Parker, TX: #4 of 75 inventorsTop 6%
Texas: #4,879 of 125,132 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #150,017 of 4,157,543Top 4%
26 Patents All Time
James Norman Hall has been granted 26 US patents while listed as an inventor at Texas Instruments. The first was granted in 2001 and the most recent in June 2025. James Norman Hall ranks #150,017 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.6%). Patent records list James Norman Hall in Parker, TX, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2001 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2024.peak 52001: 3 patents20012002: 1 patents2008: 1 patents20082009: 1 patents2010: 1 patents20102011: 1 patents2012: 1 patents20122013: 1 patents2014: 1 patents20142015: 1 patents2016: 1 patents20162017: 1 patents2019: 1 patents20192020: 1 patents2022: 2 patents20222023: 1 patents2024: 5 patents20242025: 2 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 26 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12339437 Bias voltage adjustment for a phase light modulator Patrick Ian Oden, William C. McDonald 2025-06-24
12253356 Circuits and methods to calibrate mirror displacement Robert Floyd Payne 2025-03-18
12158574 Microelectromechanical systems contact area reduction Patrick Ian Oden 2024-12-03 $71,349,000
12160084 MEMS-based phase spatial light modulating architecture Terry Alan Bartlett, William C. McDonald 2024-12-03 $71,349,000
12140751 Fringing-field, parallel plate actuator Adam Joseph Fruehling 2024-11-12 $32,376,000
12135415 Electrostatic actuator with 4-bit digital electrode William C. McDonald, Kelly Taylor, Song Zheng 2024-11-05 $80,393,000
11977220 Sculpted micromirror in a digital micromirror device William C. McDonald, Terry Alan Bartlett 2024-05-07 $43,677,000
11713243 Surface micromachined structures Patrick Ian Oden 2023-08-01 $34,811,000
11434130 Surface micromachined structures Patrick Ian Oden 2022-09-06 $32,761,000
11256083 MEMS electrostatic actuator with linearized displacements William C. McDonald 2022-02-22 $26,617,000
10831018 Methods and apparatus for increasing efficiency and optical bandwidth of a microelectromechanical system piston-mode spatial light modulator Adam Joseph Fruehling 2020-11-10 $40,893,000
10371939 Apparatus providing over-travel protection for actuators William C. McDonald, Adam Joseph Fruehling 2019-08-06 $31,774,000
9709802 Micromirror apparatus and methods William C. McDonald, Mark F. Reed, Lance W. Barron, Terry Alan Bartlett, Divyanshu Agrawal 2017-07-18 $13,773,000
9348136 Micromirror apparatus and methods William C. McDonald, Mark F. Reed, Lance W. Barron, Terry Alan Bartlett, Divyanshu Agrawal 2016-05-24 $12,387,000
8975722 MEMS device and method of manufacture Lance W. Barron, Cuiling Gong 2015-03-10 $8,901,000
8729657 MEMS device and method of manufacture Lance W. Barron, Cuiling Gong 2014-05-20 $11,365,000
8421815 Imaging bit plane sequencing using pixel value repetition Andrew Huibers, Michael T. Davis, Henry W. Neal 2013-04-16 $29,227,000
8237731 System and method for grouped pixel addressing Andrew Huibers, Michael T. Davis, Henry W. Neal 2012-08-07 $12,867,000
7919775 Semiconductor device and method comprising a high voltage reset driver and an isolated memory array James D. Huffman 2011-04-05 $10,913,000
7847795 Method and system for controlling spatial light modulator interface buses Hector Rodriguez 2010-12-07 $9,988,000
7548365 Semiconductor device and method comprising a high voltage reset driver and an isolated memory array James D. Huffman 2009-06-16 $36,264,000
7449765 Semiconductor device and method of fabrication John Charles Ehmke 2008-11-11 $7,466,000
D456168 Computer desk John Cassidy 2002-04-30
D446404 Tapered computer desk Craig Stout 2001-08-14
D445597 Computer armoire Philip Stone 2001-07-31