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TROPEL CORP

Overview
  • Total Patents
    51
About

TROPEL CORP has a total of 51 patent applications. Its first patent ever was published in 1993. 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 measurement and optics are CORNING TROPEL CORP, CARL EDVARD JOHANSSON and ZYGO CORP.

Patent filings per year

Chart showing TROPEL CORPs patent filings per year from 1900 to 2020

Focus industries

# Industry
#1 Measurement
#2 Optics

Top inventors

# Name Total Patents
#1 Bruning John H 19
#2 Kulawiec Andrew W 18
#3 Platten James E 11
#4 Michaloski Paul F 7
#5 Tronolone Mark J 7
#6 Fleig Jon F 6
#7 Hordin Richard S 4
#8 Dewa Paul G 4
#9 Vankerkhove Steven J 3
#10 Webb James E 3

Latest patents

Publication Filing date Title
US6456384B1 Moiré interferometer with overlapping illumination and imaging systems
AU7716700A Double mirror catadioptric objective lens system with three optical surface multifunction component
US6191887B1 Laser illumination with speckle reduction
US5923425A Grazing incidence interferometry for measuring transparent plane-parallel plates
US5982475A Raster-scan photolithographic reduction system
EP0902874A1 Interferometer for measuring thickness variations of semiconductor wafers
US5777738A Interferometric measurement of absolute dimensions of cylindrical surfaces at grazing incidence
US5889591A Interferometric measurement of toric surfaces at grazing incidence
US5757493A Interferometer with catadioptric imaging system having expanded range of numerical aperture
GB9909487D0 Interferometer with compound diffractive optics
US5724137A Fringe pattern discriminator for interferometer using diffraction gratings
US5684594A Object fixturing in interferometer
US5719676A Diffraction management for grazing incidence interferometer
US5650877A Imaging system for deep ultraviolet lithography
US5793488A Interferometer with compound optics for measuring cylindrical objects at oblique incidence
US5654798A Interferometric measurement of surfaces with diffractive optics at grazing incidence
US5532821A Testing of recessed surfaces at grazing incidence
US5416586A Method of testing aspherical optical surfaces with an interferometer
US5353322A Lens system for X-ray projection lithography camera
US5349434A Method of measuring artifact taper