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William C. McDonald — 20 Patents

TITexas Instruments: 20 patents #614 of 12,488Top 5%
Allen, TX: #132 of 1,376 inventorsTop 10%
Texas: #6,926 of 125,132 inventorsTop 6%
Overall (All Time): #214,803 of 4,157,543Top 6%
20 Patents All Time
William C. McDonald has been granted 20 US patents while listed as an inventor at Texas Instruments. The first was granted in 2005 and the most recent in June 2025. William C. McDonald ranks #214,803 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.2%). Patent records list William C. McDonald in Allen, TX, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2005 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2024.peak 52005: 1 patents20052008: 1 patents2013: 1 patents20132015: 1 patents2016: 3 patents20162017: 2 patents2018: 2 patents20182019: 1 patents2020: 1 patents20202022: 1 patents2024: 5 patents20242025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–20 of 20 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12339437 Bias voltage adjustment for a phase light modulator Patrick Ian Oden, James Norman Hall 2025-06-24
12160084 MEMS-based phase spatial light modulating architecture James Norman Hall, Terry Alan Bartlett 2024-12-03 $71,349,000
12135415 Electrostatic actuator with 4-bit digital electrode James Norman Hall, Kelly Taylor, Song Zheng 2024-11-05 $80,393,000
12130425 Systems and apparatus for micromirror designs with electrode contact Ryan Savage 2024-10-29 $41,373,000
11977220 Sculpted micromirror in a digital micromirror device James Norman Hall, Terry Alan Bartlett 2024-05-07 $43,677,000
11932529 Isolated protrusion/recession features in microelectromechanical systems Patrick Ian Oden, James C. Baker, Sandra Zheng 2024-03-19 $26,256,000
11256083 MEMS electrostatic actuator with linearized displacements James Norman Hall 2022-02-22 $26,617,000
10589980 Isolated protrusion/recession features in a micro electro mechanical system Patrick Ian Oden, James C. Baker, Sandra Zheng 2020-03-17 $18,075,000
10371939 Apparatus providing over-travel protection for actuators James Norman Hall, Adam Joseph Fruehling 2019-08-06 $31,774,000
9966194 MEMS electrostatic actuator device for RF varactor applications Arun Gupta, Adam Joseph Fruehling, Ivan Kmecko, Lance W. Barron, Divyanshu Agrawal +2 more 2018-05-08 $24,898,000
9864188 Operation/margin enhancement feature for surface-MEMS structure; sculpting raised address electrode Patrick Ian Oden, James C. Baker, Sandra Zheng, Lance W. Barron 2018-01-09 $13,602,000
9709802 Micromirror apparatus and methods James Norman Hall, Mark F. Reed, Lance W. Barron, Terry Alan Bartlett, Divyanshu Agrawal 2017-07-18 $13,773,000
9573801 MEMS electrostatic actuator device for RF varactor applications Arun Gupta, Adam Joseph Fruehling, Ivan Kmecko, Lance W. Barron, Divyanshu Agrawal 2017-02-21 $11,965,000
9448484 Sloped electrode element for a torsional spatial light modulator Patrick Ian Oden, James C. Baker, Sandra Zheng, Lance W. Barron 2016-09-20 $25,529,000
9348136 Micromirror apparatus and methods James Norman Hall, Mark F. Reed, Lance W. Barron, Terry Alan Bartlett, Divyanshu Agrawal 2016-05-24 $12,387,000
9263973 MEMS electrostatic actuator Arun Gupta 2016-02-16 $16,543,000
9040854 MEMS electrostatic actuator Arun Gupta 2015-05-26 $25,137,000
8541850 Method and system for forming resonators over CMOS Arun Gupta, Lance W. Barron 2013-09-24 $10,896,000
7355777 Energy storage structures using electromechanically active materials for micro electromechanical systems Patrick Ian Oden 2008-04-08 $14,387,000
6891657 Damped control of a micromechanical device Gregory J. Hewlett 2005-05-10 $25,858,000