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David Perkinson — 9 Patents

ADAdtran: 8 patents #34 of 346Top 10%
LELeapfrog Enterprises: 1 patents #61 of 105Top 60%
San Anselmo, CA: #31 of 239 inventorsTop 15%
California: #67,547 of 386,348 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #535,341 of 4,157,543Top 15%
9 Patents All Time
David Perkinson has been granted 9 US patents while listed as an inventor at Adtran. The first was granted in 2006 and the most recent in May 2018. David Perkinson ranks #535,341 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 12.9%). Patent records list David Perkinson in San Anselmo, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2006 to 2018Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2013.peak 22006: 1 patents20062008: 1 patents20082010: 1 patents20102013: 2 patents20132014: 1 patents20142015: 1 patents20152018: 2 patents2018

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–9 of 9 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9977565 Interactive educational system with light emitting controller Alex Potts 2018-05-22
9929932 Locating traffic origin in a network Mark C. Rudolph 2018-03-27 $5,174,000
9191278 System and method for locating offending network device and maintaining network integrity Timothy James Schlichter, Mark C. Rudolph 2015-11-17 $1,296,000
8873431 Communications system and method for maintaining topology in a VLAN environment 2014-10-28 $3,784,000
8402120 System and method for locating and configuring network device 2013-03-19 $3,234,000
8380828 System and method for locating offending network device and maintaining network integrity Timothy James Schlichter, Mark C. Rudolph 2013-02-19 $12,389,000
7861002 Network router that efficiently switches between a primary data path and a backup data path Roberto Puon 2010-12-28 $13,209,000
7349327 System and method for remotely updating a network device Roberto Puon 2008-03-25 $4,465,000
6996071 Binary decision tree-based arbitrator for packetized communications Walter Stuart Venters 2006-02-07 $7,998,000