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Robert C. Hooper — 4 Patents

TITexas Instruments: 4 patents #3,300 of 12,488Top 30%
Houston, TX: #5,436 of 21,073 inventorsTop 30%
Texas: #33,915 of 125,132 inventorsTop 30%
Overall (All Time): #1,080,739 of 4,157,543Top 30%
4 Patents All Time
Robert C. Hooper has been granted 4 US patents while listed as an inventor at Texas Instruments. The first was granted in 1980 and the most recent in June 1989. Robert C. Hooper ranks #1,080,739 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 26.0%). Patent records list Robert C. Hooper in Houston, TX, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1980 to 1989Bar chart with a peak of 1 patents in 1980.peak 11980: 1 patents19801986: 1 patents19861988: 1 patents19881989: 1 patents1989

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–4 of 4 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
4843453 Metal contacts and interconnections for VLSI devices Bobby A. Roane, Douglas P. Verret 1989-06-27 $1,908,000
4742014 Method of making metal contacts and interconnections for VLSI devices with copper as a primary conductor Bobby A. Roane, Douglas P. Verret 1988-05-03 $7,175,000
4619887 Method of plating an interconnect metal onto a metal in VLSI devices Douglas P. Verret, Bobby A. Roane 1986-10-28 $3,278,000
4182781 Low cost method for forming elevated metal bumps on integrated circuit bodies employing an aluminum/palladium metallization base for electroless plating Alexander J. Harrover, Michael J. VanHoy, Charles E. Terry 1980-01-08 $10,211,000