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Robert E. Brown — 23 Patents

ZYZygo: 4 patents #16 of 99Top 20%
IBM: 3 patents #26,335 of 70,183Top 40%
UFUS Air Force: 3 patents #2,305 of 16,312Top 15%
GPGte Products: 3 patents #246 of 928Top 30%
GE: 3 patents #10,387 of 36,430Top 30%
Caterpillar: 1 patents #4,457 of 8,398Top 55%
UNUnknown: 1 patents #29,356 of 83,584Top 40%
Fort Mill, SC: #21 of 349 inventorsTop 7%
South Carolina: #489 of 15,501 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #178,160 of 4,157,543Top 5%
23 Patents All Time
Robert E. Brown has been granted 23 US patents while listed as an inventor at Zygo. The first was granted in 1981 and the most recent in March 2025. Robert E. Brown ranks #178,160 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.3%). Patent records list Robert E. Brown in Fort Mill, SC, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–23 of 23 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
D1067343 Personal workout vest 2025-03-18
6829419 Fiber array alignment Jeffrey E. LeClaire, Huizong Lu, John L. Sullivan 2004-12-07 $2,193,000
6798970 Automated placement of optical fibers Jeffrey E. LeClaire, Huizong Lu, John L. Sullivan 2004-09-28 $2,611,000
6754428 Fiber array alignment substrate Jeffrey E. LeClaire, Huizong Lu, John L. Sullivan 2004-06-22 $3,419,000
6616346 Fiber to optical device alignment Jeffrey E. LeClaire, John L. Sullivan, Huizong Lu 2003-09-09 $1,969,000
6163090 Probe position actuator with an elongated stroke Christian J. Bunker, Jiann-Chang Lo 2000-12-19 $38,646,000
6023171 Dual-contact probe tip for flying probe tester James Boyette, Christian J. Bunker, James C. Mahlbacher 2000-02-08 $33,742,000
5800227 Self erecting personal water safety device 1998-09-01
5757159 Height stage for positioning apparatus James Boyette 1998-05-26 $6,589,000
5092960 Method for drying suspensions of organic solids in water 1992-03-03
5059148 Thin film flat panel displays and method of manufacture John F. McKenna, Paul Ernest Gagnon, Jr. 1991-10-22 $29,208,000
5012513 Telephone handset cover George L. Dale 1991-04-30
4839563 Pulse burst panel drive for electroluminescent displays Robert A. Boudreau 1989-06-13 $5,814,000
4802859 Electrical connector Thomas E. Gouldy, William C. Knoll, Ernest R. Ritter, deceased, Thomas M. Lynch, Ronald E. Steffey +1 more 1989-02-07 $10,771,000
4557626 Road patching vehicle Jack E. McKay 1985-12-10
4482300 Reversible pump coupling apparatus 1984-11-13 $5,889,000
4447776 Pulse driver for flux gate magnetometer 1984-05-08
4437595 Feeding apparatus for fish and other animals Perry Stevens 1984-03-20
4384254 Oscillator/driver circuit for fluxgate magnetometer 1983-05-17
4363077 Rotary circuit component assembly and circuit mounting 1982-12-07 $8,723,000
4320268 Illuminated keyboard for electronic devices and the like 1982-03-16 $3,106,000
4302746 Self-powered vehicle detection system John F. Scarzello, Daniel S. Lenko, Albert D. Krall, Wayne R. Grine, George Usher +2 more 1981-11-24
4285769 Control cell nuclear reactor core Steven R. Specker, Craig D. Sawyer, Russell L. Crowther, Bennett J. Gitnick, Kenneth V. Walters +1 more 1981-08-25 $2,236,000