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Mark A Hughes — 12 Patents

3C3Com: 6 patents #185 of 1,250Top 15%
3T3Com Technologies: 3 patents #9 of 53Top 20%
TITextron Innovations: 2 patents #387 of 1,177Top 35%
Overall (All Time): #396,045 of 4,157,543Top 10%
12 Patents All Time
Mark A Hughes has been granted 12 US patents while listed as an inventor at 3Com. The first was granted in 2001 and the most recent in November 2025. Mark A Hughes ranks #396,045 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 9.5%). Patent records list Mark A Hughes in Dublin, KS, IE.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2001 to 2021Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2004.peak 32001: 2 patents20012002: 1 patents20022003: 2 patents20032004: 3 patents20042008: 1 patents20082021: 2 patents2021

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–12 of 12 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
D1100792 Lighted aircraft wingtip Gonzalo Eduardo Mendoza, Joseph Hieger, Jason Michael Decker, Mark N. Chaffin 2025-11-04
D926663 Aircraft with floats Corey Wailes Hagemeister 2021-08-03
10967981 Hybrid aircraft with transversely oriented engine Neal Herbert Willford 2021-04-06 $16,554,000
7366168 TCP control packet differential service Daniel O'Keeffe, Kevin Loughran, Joseph N Butler 2008-04-29 $15,103,000
6801527 Stackable network unit including registers for identifying stack members and trunk ports Daniel O'Keeffe, Kevin Loughran, Paul J Moran 2004-10-05 $3,701,000
6801950 Stackable network unit including register for identifying trunk connection status of stacked units Daniel O'Keeffe, Kevin Loughran, Paul J Moran 2004-10-05 $3,701,000
6763348 Method and apparatus for searching databases employing a trie search structure Daniel O'Keeffe, Kevin Loughran, John Hickey, Paul O'Keeffe 2004-07-13 $2,701,000
6550025 Last-in first-out data stacks and processing data using such data stacks Anne O'Connell 2003-04-15 $13,553,000
6543027 On-chip detection of clock gitches by examination of consecutive data Joseph N Butler, Neil Fanning 2003-04-01 $4,351,000
6438717 High speed parallel bit error rate tester Joseph N Butler, Neil Fanning, Eugene O'Neill, Una Quinlan 2002-08-20 $3,637,000
6275880 Framing codes for high-speed parallel data buses Una Quinlan, Con Cremin, Eugene O'Neill, J. Noel Butler, Neil Fanning 2001-08-14 $5,633,000
6230289 Testing data packets Anne O'Connell 2001-05-08 $7,648,000