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SPECIAL DEVICES INC

Overview
  • Total Patents
    142
  • GoodIP Patent Rank
    210,981
About

SPECIAL DEVICES INC has a total of 142 patent applications. Its first patent ever was published in 1960. It filed its patents most often in United States, WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization) and EPO (European Patent Office). Its main competitors in its focus markets machines, digital networks and basic materials chemistry are FR SOBBE GMBH, CONTROLLED BLASTING SOLUTIONS LTD and POWELL KEVIN MARK.

Patent filings per year

Chart showing SPECIAL DEVICES INCs patent filings per year from 1900 to 2020

Top inventors

# Name Total Patents
#1 Avetisian Vahan 41
#2 Teowee Gimtong 21
#3 Tirmizi Abrar A 17
#4 Forman David M 16
#5 Jennings David Thomas Iii 11
#6 Rosin Todd 10
#7 Kajita Eishi 10
#8 Jennings Iii David T 10
#9 Berg Paul 8
#10 Renz Robert 8

Latest patents

Publication Filing date Title
US2017174580A1 High temperature gas generant
WO2017105444A1 High temperature gas generant
US2015323295A1 Igniter with a locked consolidated powder charge
WO2008152529A1 Low-voltage-insensitive electro-pyrotechnic device
US2008236432A1 Enhanced method, device, and system for identifying an unknown or unmarked slave device such as in an electronic blasting system
US2007204757A1 Hybrid electronic and electromechanical arm-fire device
US2006130693A1 Multiple slave logging device
US7114427B1 Quick-loosening mechanical linking device
WO2006051351A1 Pyrotechnic circuit breaker
US7239225B2 Pyrotechnic circuit breaker
US6988449B2 Dynamic baselining in current modulation-based communication
US7123124B2 Pyrotechnic circuit breaker
US2005011388A1 Method of identifying an unknown or unmarked slave device such as in an electronic blasting system
US2005011390A1 ESD-resistant electronic detonator
US7054131B1 Pre-fire countdown in an electronic detonator and electronic blasting system
US2005115437A1 Staggered charging of slave devices such as in an electronic blasting system
US2005034624A1 Firing-readiness diagnostic of a pyrotechnic device such as an electronic detonator
US6789483B1 Detonator utilizing selection of logger mode or blaster mode based on sensed voltages
US2005015473A1 Dynamically-and continuously-variable rate, asynchronous data transfer
US2005011391A1 Constant-current, rail-voltage regulated charging electronic detonator