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Neil Fanning — 6 Patents

3C3Com: 3 patents #359 of 1,250Top 30%
3T3Com Technologies: 1 patents #24 of 53Top 50%
HP: 1 patents #11,359 of 16,619Top 70%
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba: 1 patents #13,641 of 21,451Top 65%
Blarney, IE: #9 of 81 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #779,687 of 4,157,543Top 20%
6 Patents All Time
Neil Fanning has been granted 6 US patents while listed as an inventor at 3Com. The first was granted in 2001 and the most recent in June 2012. Neil Fanning ranks #779,687 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 18.8%). Patent records list Neil Fanning in Blarney, IE.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2001 to 2012Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2012.peak 22001: 1 patents20012002: 1 patents20022003: 1 patents20032010: 1 patents20102012: 2 patents2012

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–6 of 6 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8194672 Network switch with mutually coupled look-up engine and network processor Sorcha O'Callaghan, Kevin Jennings, Eugene O'Neill, Joseph N Butler 2012-06-05 $17,982,000
8121101 Multichannel MAC in wireless networks Georgios Kalogridis 2012-02-21
7701941 Network switch with mutually coupled look-up engine and network processor Sorcha O'Callaghan, Kevin Jennings, Eugene O'Neill, Joseph N Butler 2010-04-20
6543027 On-chip detection of clock gitches by examination of consecutive data Mark A Hughes, Joseph N Butler 2003-04-01 $4,351,000
6438717 High speed parallel bit error rate tester Joseph N Butler, Mark A Hughes, 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, Mark A Hughes 2001-08-14 $5,633,000