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David Butler — 21 Patents

Alcatel Lucent: 4 patents #883 of 4,169Top 25%
ALAlcatel: 3 patents #377 of 2,861Top 15%
GPGalvion Soldier Power: 3 patents #4 of 10Top 40%
SCSprint Communications: 3 patents #587 of 2,085Top 30%
HIHrb Innovations: 2 patents #14 of 52Top 30%
BLBritish Telecommunications Public Limited: 1 patents #627 of 1,458Top 45%
Kansas City, MO: #28 of 1,876 inventorsTop 2%
Missouri: #760 of 23,789 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #201,324 of 4,157,543Top 5%
21 Patents All Time
David Butler has been granted 21 US patents while listed as an inventor at Alcatel Lucent. The first was granted in 1987 and the most recent in August 2024. David Butler ranks #201,324 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.8%). Patent records list David Butler in Kansas City, MO, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1987 to 2024Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2011.peak 41987: 1 patents19871997: 1 patents2000: 1 patents20002007: 3 patents2011: 4 patents20112012: 1 patents2013: 1 patents20132014: 1 patents2015: 1 patents20152019: 2 patents2020: 2 patents20202021: 1 patents2022: 1 patents20222024: 1 patents2024

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–21 of 21 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12068600 Power manager with reconfigurable power converting circuits David N. Long, Nicholas J. Piela 2024-08-20
11258366 Power manager with reconfigurable power converting circuits David N. Long, Nicholas J. Piela 2022-02-22
11182544 User interface for contextual document recognition Eric R. Roebuck, Mary Ann Clark, Erik V. Lustig 2021-11-23
10848067 Power manager with reconfigurable power converting circuits David N. Long, Nicholas J. Piela 2020-11-24
10684601 Machine control and data logging station 2020-06-16
10482170 User interface for contextual document recognition Eric R. Roebuck, Mary Ann Clark, Erik V. Lustig 2019-11-19
10419147 Optical line loading using variable bandwidth noise 2019-09-17
9014046 Network capacity forecasting and maintenance Derek Michael Spain, Shun Calvin Lai, Randall Lee Rezac, Paul Aaron Woelk 2015-04-21 $19,030,000
8774031 Network capacity forecasting and maintenance Derek Michael Spain, Shun Calvin Lai, Randall Lee Rezac, Paul Aaron Woelk 2014-07-08
8474087 Sandpaper cleaner 2013-07-02
8336432 Safety system for machine tools 2012-12-25
8082825 Health and safety system for a table saw 2011-12-27
8055129 Alien wavelength channel balancing and line amplifier optimization Lev B. Sofman 2011-11-08 $747,000
8045852 Channel balancing algorithm Carlton D. Brown 2011-10-25 $2,400,000
8009575 Network capacity forecasting and maintenance Derek Michael Spain, Shun Calvin Lai, Randall Lee Rezac, Paul Aaron Woelk 2011-08-30 $9,851,000
7221869 System and method for classifying high speed data signals utilizing low frequency electrical spectral characteristics Robert Burford, Kurt Schuder 2007-05-22 $24,666,000
7162164 Optical vestigial sideband transmitter/receiver Carlton D. Brown 2007-01-09 $7,362,000
7158289 Method and apparatus for implementing optical supervisory channel using broadband noise modulation 2007-01-02
6046797 Optical time domain reflectometer and method Geoffrey P. Spencer 2000-04-04 $2,833,000
5654592 Power supply controller Peter L. J. Frost 1997-08-05 $4,118,000
4649730 Automobile body and frame straightening tool 1987-03-17