James M. Powers
28Patents
6h-index
38Co-inventors
69Inventor score
Filing activity: Apr 7, 1986 → May 24, 2017
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US6642531B1 | Contamination control on lithography components | Physics | 33 | Expired |
| US5970680A | Air-lifted slab structure | Fixed Constructions | 29 | Expired |
| US6562711B1 | Method of reducing capacitance of interconnect | Electricity | 21 | Expired |
| US6920728B2 | Column and beam construction and method | Fixed Constructions | 17 | Expired |
| US4789971A | Broadband, acoustically transparent, nonresonant PVDF hydrophone | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 17 | Expired |
| US5371801A | Energy absorption apparatus | Physics | 7 | Expired |
| US5539979A | Method and apparatus for repairing the rear seal area on the crankshaft of an internal combustion engine | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 6 | Expired |
| US5724315A | Omnidirectional ultrasonic microprobe hydrophone | Performing Operations; Transporting | 6 | Expired |
| US7200887B1 | Bridges assembled from ocean-mobile pontoon bridge modules | Fixed Constructions | 4 | Active |
| US9698013B2 | Methods and structures to prevent sidewall defects during selective epitaxy | Electricity | 4 | Active |
| US6696760B2 | Semiconductor structure | Electricity | 4 | Expired |
| US7676973B1 | Firearm or repeating pyrotechnic mortar that advances cartridges from a magazine into a firing chamber by a chemical detonation or steam explosion | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 3 | Active |
| US7214452B2 | Using perfluoropoly-ethers to form pellicles | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 3 | Expired |
| US7669272B2 | Method of launching bridge spans in bridge construction | Fixed Constructions | 2 | Active |
| US10249742B2 | Offstate parasitic leakage reduction for tunneling field effect transistors | Electricity | 2 | Active |
| US9711591B2 | Methods of forming hetero-layers with reduced surface roughness and bulk defect density of non-native surfaces and the structures formed thereby | Electricity | 1 | Active |
| US5456532A | Vibrating assembly for pressurized water reactor ice baskets | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 1 | Expired |
| US7029723B2 | Forming chemical vapor depositable low dielectric constant layers | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 1 | Expired |
| US6588359B1 | Apparatuses and methods for at-sea cargo handling and rescue | Performing Operations; Transporting | 1 | Expired |
| US10096474B2 | Methods and structures to prevent sidewall defects during selective epitaxy | Electricity | 1 | Active |
| US5489133A | Attachment bracket | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 1 | Expired |
| US7068347B2 | Apparatus for reducing pellicle darkening | Physics | 0 | Expired |
| US6197087A | Pyrolysis of halogenated organic hazardous wastes with direct reduction of iron oxides | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 0 | Expired |
| US7763395B2 | Radiation stability of polymer pellicles | Physics | 0 | Active |
| US8513111B2 | Forming semiconductor structures | Electricity | 0 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.