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William C. Ackerman — 23 Patents

TITexas Instruments: 14 patents #981 of 12,488Top 8%
CACabot: 6 patents #98 of 601Top 20%
Hoechst Gmbh: 1 patents #2,248 of 4,020Top 60%
Albuquerque, NM: #116 of 4,547 inventorsTop 3%
New Mexico: #198 of 9,035 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #178,160 of 4,157,543Top 5%
23 Patents All Time
William C. Ackerman has been granted 23 US patents while listed as an inventor at Texas Instruments. The first was granted in 1997 and the most recent in November 2004. William C. Ackerman ranks #178,160 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.3%). Patent records list William C. Ackerman in Albuquerque, NM, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1997 to 2004Bar chart with a peak of 6 patents in 2000.peak 61997: 1 patents19971998: 5 patents19981999: 3 patents19992000: 6 patents20002001: 4 patents20012002: 2 patents20022003: 1 patents20032004: 1 patents2004

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–23 of 23 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
6821554 Polyol-based method for forming thin film aerogels on semiconductor substrates Douglas M. Smith, Richard Stoltz 2004-11-23 $18,745,000
6645878 Low volatility solvent-based method for forming thin film nanoporous aerogels on semiconductor substrates Douglas M. Smith, Gregory P. Johnston, Richard Stoltz, Alok Maskara, Teresa Ramos +2 more 2003-11-11 $18,962,000
6437007 Aerogel thin film formation from multi-solvent systems Douglas M. Smith, Gregory P. Johnston, Shin-Puu Jeng, Bruce E. Gnade 2002-08-20 $27,921,000
6380105 Low volatility solvent-based method for forming thin film nanoporous aerogels on semiconductor substrates Douglas M. Smith, Gregory P. Johnston, Richard Stoltz, Alok Maskara, Teresa Ramos +2 more 2002-04-30 $26,893,000
6319852 Nanoporous dielectric thin film formation using a post-deposition catalyst Douglas M. Smith, Gregory P. Johnston, Shin-Puu Jeng 2001-11-20 $49,617,000
6315971 Process for producing low density gel compositions Stephen Wallace, Douglas M. Smith 2001-11-13 $6,773,000
6172120 Process for producing low density gel compositions Douglas M. Smith, Stephen Wallace, Elsbeth R. Lokey 2001-01-09 $8,608,000
6171645 Polyol-based method for forming thin film aerogels on semiconductor substrates Douglas M. Smith, Richard Stoltz 2001-01-09 $87,380,000
6140252 Porous dielectric material with improved pore surface properties for electronics applications Chih-Chen Cho, Bruce E. Gnade, Douglas M. Smith, Jin Changming, Gregory C. Johnston 2000-10-31 $58,646,000
6131305 Process for sub-critically drying aerogels Rainald Forbert, Andreas Zimmermann, Douglas M. Smith 2000-10-17
6130152 Aerogel thin film formation from multi-solvent systems Douglas M. Smith, Gregory P. Johnston, Shin-Puu Jeng, Bruce E. Gnade 2000-10-10 $67,086,000
6107350 Gel compositions Ralph Ulrich Boes, James A. Belmont, David J. Kaul, Douglas M. Smith 2000-08-22 $11,953,000
6071486 Process for producing metal oxide and organo-metal oxide compositions Kenneth C. Koehlert, Douglas M. Smith, Stephen Wallace, David J. Kaul 2000-06-06 $16,623,000
6063714 Nanoporous dielectric thin film surface modification Douglas M. Smith, Gregory P. Johnston, Shin-Puu Jeng 2000-05-16 $60,212,000
5955140 Low volatility solvent-based method for forming thin film nanoporous aerogels on semiconductor substrates Douglas M. Smith, Gregory P. Johnston, Richard Stoltz, Alok Maskara, Teresa Ramos +2 more 1999-09-21 $39,421,000
5928723 Progress for producing surface modified metal oxide compositions Kenneth C. Koehlert, Douglas M. Smith, Stephen Wallace, David J. Kaul 1999-07-27 $15,661,000
5877100 Compositions and insulation bodies having low thermal conductivity Douglas M. Smith, Alok Maskara 1999-03-02 $2,576,000
5847443 Porous dielectric material with improved pore surface properties for electronics applications Chi-Chen Cho, Bruce E. Gnade, Douglas M. Smith, Jin Changming, Gregory C. Johnston 1998-12-08 $48,241,000
5807494 Gel compositions comprising silica and functionalized carbon products Ralph Ulrich Boes, James A. Belmont, David J. Kaul, Douglas M. Smith 1998-09-15
5807607 Polyol-based method for forming thin film aerogels on semiconductor substrates Douglas M. Smith, Richard Stoltz 1998-09-15 $9,693,000
5753305 Rapid aging technique for aerogel thin films Douglas M. Smith, Gregory P. Johnston, Shin-Puu Jeng 1998-05-19 $16,993,000
5736425 Glycol-based method for forming a thin-film nanoporous dielectric Douglas M. Smith 1998-04-07 $25,371,000
5680713 Process for the subcritical drying of aerogels Rainald Forbert, Andreas Zimmermann, Douglas M. Smith 1997-10-28 $71,000