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John Charles Ehmke — 30 Patents

TITexas Instruments: 18 patents #710 of 12,488Top 6%
RTX (Raytheon): 12 patents #899 of 15,912Top 6%
Garland, TX: #23 of 1,186 inventorsTop 2%
Texas: #3,931 of 125,132 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #121,623 of 4,157,543Top 3%
30 Patents All Time
John Charles Ehmke has been granted 30 US patents while listed as an inventor at Texas Instruments. The first was granted in 1994 and the most recent in January 2024. John Charles Ehmke ranks #121,623 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.9%). Patent records list John Charles Ehmke in Garland, TX, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1994 to 2024Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2002.peak 31994: 1 patents19941996: 1 patents1998: 1 patents19982000: 1 patents2002: 3 patents20022003: 2 patents2004: 2 patents20042005: 1 patents2008: 1 patents20082009: 1 patents2011: 2 patents20112015: 1 patents2017: 2 patents20172018: 2 patents2019: 2 patents20192020: 2 patents2021: 3 patents20212023: 1 patents2024: 1 patents2024

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 30 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11858806 Vertical shear weld wafer bonding Ivan Kmecko 2024-01-02 $22,861,000
11835739 Dark mirror thin films 2023-12-05 $30,679,000
11167983 Selective wafer removal process for wafer bonding applications 2021-11-09 $35,109,000
11084717 Through-substrate conductor support Virgil Ararao 2021-08-10 $40,116,000
11000915 Stabilized transient liquid phase metal bonding material for hermetic wafer level packaging of MEMS devices Simon Joshua Jacobs 2021-05-11 $37,394,000
10759658 Hermetic vertical shear weld wafer bonding Ivan Kmecko 2020-09-01 $30,772,000
10750645 Transparent display panel cooling Scott Patrick Overmann, Sean O'Brien 2020-08-18 $31,996,000
10427932 Hermetically sealed MEMS device and its fabrication Virgil Ararao 2019-10-01 $30,146,000
10392246 Through-substrate conductor support Virgil Ararao 2019-08-27 $25,477,000
9966194 MEMS electrostatic actuator device for RF varactor applications Arun Gupta, William C. McDonald, Adam Joseph Fruehling, Ivan Kmecko, Lance W. Barron +2 more 2018-05-08 $24,898,000
9890036 Hermetically sealed MEMS device and its fabrication Virgil Ararao 2018-02-13 $15,675,000
9796585 Leak detection using cavity surface quality factor 2017-10-24 $26,140,000
9567213 Hermetically-sealed MEMS device and its fabrication Virgil Ararao 2017-02-14 $17,110,000
9140898 Hermetically sealed MEMS device and its fabrication Virgil Ararao, Toby Linder, Lance W. Barron 2015-09-22 $9,107,000
7977208 Method and apparatus for packaging circuit devices Billy D. Ables, Roland W. Gooch 2011-07-12 $5,292,000
7867874 Method and apparatus for packaging circuit devices Billy D. Ables, Roland W. Gooch 2011-01-11 $19,768,000
7535093 Method and apparatus for packaging circuit devices Billy D. Ables, Roland W. Gooch 2009-05-19 $39,924,000
7449765 Semiconductor device and method of fabrication James Norman Hall 2008-11-11 $7,466,000
6856014 Method for fabricating a lid for a wafer level packaged optical MEMS device Vincent C. Lopes, John Harris 2005-02-15 $15,740,000
6803534 Membrane for micro-electro-mechanical switch, and methods of making and using it Shea Chen, Brandon W. Pillans, Zhimin Jamie Yao 2004-10-12 $10,738,000
6700172 Method and apparatus for switching high frequency signals Charles L. Goldsmith, Zhimin Jamie Yao, Susan M. Eshelman 2004-03-02 $31,367,000
6633079 Wafer level interconnection James L. Cheever, Charles L. Goldsmith, Billy D. Ables 2003-10-14 $38,641,000
6512300 Water level interconnection James L. Cheever, Charles L. Goldsmith, Billy D. Ables 2003-01-28 $53,375,000
6501431 Method and apparatus for increasing bandwidth of a stripline to slotline transition James M. Irion, II, R. Thomas Dover, Richard E. Hodges, Allan R. Logan 2002-12-31 $53,920,000
6391675 Method and apparatus for switching high frequency signals Charles L. Goldsmith, Zhimin Jamie Yao, Susan M. Eshelman 2002-05-21 $34,271,000