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Peter De Groot — 126 Patents

ZYZygo: 119 patents #1 of 99Top 2%
HSHughes Danbury Optical Systems: 3 patents #1 of 35Top 3%
The Boeing: 2 patents #5,372 of 15,756Top 35%
PEPerkinelmer: 2 patents #187 of 711Top 30%
Middletown, CT: #1 of 449 inventorsTop 1%
Connecticut: #69 of 34,797 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #8,987 of 4,157,543Top 1%
126 Patents All Time
Peter De Groot has been granted 126 US patents while listed as an inventor at Zygo. The first was granted in 1990 and the most recent in October 2024. Peter De Groot ranks #8,987 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.22%). Patent records list Peter De Groot in Middletown, CT, US.

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Showing 1–25 of 126 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12104897 Interometric optical system 2024-10-01
10591284 Metrology of multi-layer stacks Leslie L. Deck 2020-03-17
10451413 Surface topography apparatus and method Leslie L. Deck 2019-10-22
9958254 Calibration of scanning interferometers Jake Beverage, Xavier Colonna de Lega, Martin F. Fay 2018-05-01
9798130 Measuring topography of aspheric and other non-flat surfaces Thomas Dresel, Jan Liesener 2017-10-24
9746348 Double pass interferometric encoder system Jan Liesener 2017-08-29
9658129 Method and system for determining information about a transparent optical element comprising a lens portion and a plane parallel portion Xavier Colonna de Lega, Martin F. Fay 2017-05-23
9599534 Optical evaluation of lenses and lens molds Martin F. Fay, Xavier Colonna de Lega 2017-03-21
9377292 Interferometry employing refractive index dispersion broadening of interference signals 2016-06-28
9140537 Interferometric heterodyne optical encoder system Michael D. Schroeder 2015-09-22
9025162 Interferometry for lateral metrology Xavier Colonna de Lega, Robert Stoner 2015-05-05
9025161 Double pass interferometric encoder system Jan Liesener 2015-05-05
8988690 Interferometric encoder systems Leslie L. Deck, Michael D. Schroeder 2015-03-24
8902431 Low coherence interferometry with scan error correction Jan Liesener, Mark Davidson, Xavier Colonna de Lega, Leslie L. Deck 2014-12-02
8885172 Interferometric heterodyne optical encoder system Michael D. Schroeder 2014-11-11
8854628 Interferometric methods for metrology of surfaces, films and underresolved structures Xavier Colonna de Lega, Jan Liesener 2014-10-07
8780334 Topographical profiling with coherence scanning interferometry 2014-07-15
8670127 Interferometric encoder systems Leslie L. Deck, Michael D. Schroeder 2014-03-11 $2,257,000
8379218 Fiber-based interferometer system for monitoring an imaging interferometer Leslie L. Deck, Mark Davidson, Jan Liesener, Xavier Colonna De Lega 2013-02-19 $2,127,000
8300233 Interferometric encoder systems Leslie L. Deck, Michael D. Schroeder 2012-10-30
8248617 Interferometer for overlay measurements Jan Liesener, Xavier Colonna De Lega 2012-08-21 $3,760,000
8189202 Interferometer for determining overlay errors Jan Liesener, Xavier Colonna De Lega 2012-05-29 $3,751,000
8126677 Analyzing surface structure using scanning interferometry Xavier Colonna De Lega 2012-02-28 $2,305,000
8120781 Interferometric systems and methods featuring spectral analysis of unevenly sampled data Jan Liesener, Mark Davidson, Xavier Colonna de Lega, Leslie L. Deck 2012-02-21 $4,602,000
8107085 Methods and systems for interferometric analysis of surfaces and related applications 2012-01-31 $2,320,000