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Stephen L. Van Seters — 8 Patents

3C3Com: 8 patents #109 of 1,250Top 9%
Stow, MA: #73 of 318 inventorsTop 25%
Massachusetts: #16,020 of 88,656 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #600,572 of 4,157,543Top 15%
8 Patents All Time
Stephen L. Van Seters has been granted 8 US patents while listed as an inventor at 3Com. The first was granted in 1997 and the most recent in February 2001. Stephen L. Van Seters ranks #600,572 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 14.4%). Patent records list Stephen L. Van Seters in Stow, MA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1997 to 2001Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 1999.peak 31997: 1 patents19971998: 2 patents19981999: 3 patents19992000: 1 patents20002001: 1 patents2001

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–8 of 8 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
6195351 Logical switch set James Scott Hiscock, Joris Wils, Edward A. Heiner, Jr., G. Stodel Friedman, John Joseph Harrison, Jr. 2001-02-27 $11,802,000
6108692 Method and apparatus for internetworking buffer management Stephen A. Hauser, Mark A. Sankey, Christopher Lawler 2000-08-22 $23,089,000
5978951 High speed cache management unit for use in a bridge/router Christopher Lawler, Shannon Q. Hill, David Lipschutz, Thomas A. Radogna, John A. Flanders +1 more 1999-11-02 $33,569,000
5978378 Method and apparatus for VLAN support Ryan T. Ross, Leonard Schwartz, David C. Ready, John A. Flanders, Robert P. Ryan +1 more 1999-11-02 $33,569,000
5949788 Method and apparatus for multipoint trunking G. Stodel Friedman, David J. Husak, Edward A. Heiner, Jr. 1999-09-07 $33,973,000
5825774 Packet characterization using code vectors David C. Ready, John A. Flanders 1998-10-20 $149,973,000
5812775 Method and apparatus for internetworking buffer management Stephen A. Hauser, Mark A. Sankey, Christopher Lawler 1998-09-22 $136,201,000
5651002 Internetworking device with enhanced packet header translation and memory Christopher Lawler, David C. Ready 1997-07-22 $134,505,000