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Weston A. Anderson — 36 Patents

VAVarian: 28 patents #2 of 684Top 1%
BIBruker Instruments: 1 patents #9 of 22Top 45%
COConductus: 1 patents #24 of 46Top 55%
Palo Alto, CA: #597 of 9,675 inventorsTop 7%
California: #13,468 of 386,348 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #92,222 of 4,157,543Top 3%
36 Patents All Time
Weston A. Anderson has been granted 36 US patents while listed as an inventor at Varian. The first was granted in 1980 and the most recent in September 2010. Weston A. Anderson ranks #92,222 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.2%). Patent records list Weston A. Anderson in Palo Alto, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1980 to 2010Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 1996.peak 31980: 2 patents19801981: 2 patents1982: 1 patents19821983: 2 patents1986: 2 patents19861988: 1 patents1989: 2 patents19891991: 2 patents1996: 3 patents19961998: 3 patents1999: 1 patents19992000: 2 patents2001: 3 patents20012002: 2 patents2003: 1 patents20032004: 2 patents2005: 1 patents20052006: 1 patents2007: 1 patents20072010: 2 patents2010

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 36 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7791339 RF-switched superconducting resonators and methods of switching thereof Wai Ha Wong, Richard S. Withers 2010-09-07 $30,780,000
7701217 NMR spiral RF probe coil pair with low external electric field Richard S. Withers, Robert E. Nast 2010-04-20 $6,723,000
7205764 Method and apparatus for increasing the detection sensitivity in a high resolution NMR analysis Atholl Gibson 2007-04-17 $12,632,000
7061745 Variable capacitor adjustable by linear motor Alexander Funk 2006-06-13 $15,433,000
6876200 NMR probe having an inner quadrature detection coil combined with a spiral wound outer coil for irradiation Wai Ha Wong, James P. Finnigan 2005-04-05 $18,576,000
6833704 Multinuclear wands Joseph Murphy, James P. Finnigan 2004-12-21 $22,403,000
6794868 Method of shim optimization Wai Ha Wong 2004-09-21 $14,367,000
6515260 Method and apparatus for rapid heating of NMR samples 2003-02-04 $26,070,000
6420871 Multiple tuned birdcage coils Wai Ha Wong, Seiji Unno 2002-07-16 $20,652,000
6411092 Clad metal foils for low temperature NMR probe RF coils 2002-06-25 $11,178,000
6323647 Motor driven tuning and matching of RF coils in an NMR probe Howard D.W. Hill, Coriolan Frum, David Humber 2001-11-27 $26,676,000
6320382 Etched z-axis gradient coils for magnetic resonance 2001-11-20 $27,926,000
6201392 Coplanar RF probe coil arrangement for multifrequency excitation Richard S. Withers, Kevin A. Delin, Luis Felipe Fuks, Wai Ha Wong 2001-03-13 $22,585,000
6054855 Magnetic susceptibility control of superconducting materials in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) probes 2000-04-25 $11,981,000
6025719 Nuclear magnetic resonance method and apparatus 2000-02-15 $13,006,000
5986453 AC magnetic susceptibility control of superconducting materials in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) probes Richard S. Withers 1999-11-16 $3,444,000
5799951 Rotating sealing device John E. Richardson 1998-09-01 $2,436,000
5768337 Photoelectric X-ray tube with gain 1998-06-16 $1,852,000
5767677 Suppression of radiation damping in NMR 1998-06-16 $1,852,000
5565778 Nuclear magnetic resonance probe coil William W. Brey, Wai Ha Wong, Luiz Felipe Fuks, Vincent Kotsubo, Richard S. Withers 1996-10-15 $1,122,000
5552709 NMR sample cell 1996-09-03 $8,426,000
5541975 X-ray tube having rotary anode cooled with high thermal conductivity fluid James T. Arnold, Gordon R. Lavering, Jack J. Duffield 1996-07-30
5001682 Method and apparatus for detecting seismic events 1991-03-19
4990856 Mass analysis apparatus and method James T. Arnold 1991-02-05 $4,509,000
4878235 High intensity x-ray source using bellows 1989-10-31 $1,029,000