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Joseph E. Sutherland — 26 Patents

ASAlcatel Network Systems: 11 patents #3 of 144Top 3%
ALAlcatel: 7 patents #83 of 2,861Top 3%
ANAlcatel Na: 2 patents #4 of 40Top 10%
ASAlcatel Na Network Systems: 2 patents #7 of 40Top 20%
Alcatel Lucent: 2 patents #1,547 of 4,169Top 40%
IEInternational Standard Electric: 1 patents #147 of 567Top 30%
ITInternational Telephone And Telegraph: 1 patents #182 of 507Top 40%
Raleigh, NC: #266 of 6,378 inventorsTop 5%
North Carolina: #1,597 of 45,564 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #150,017 of 4,157,543Top 4%
26 Patents All Time
Joseph E. Sutherland has been granted 26 US patents while listed as an inventor at Alcatel Network Systems. The first was granted in 1982 and the most recent in December 2009. Joseph E. Sutherland ranks #150,017 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.6%). Patent records list Joseph E. Sutherland in Raleigh, NC, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1982 to 2009Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2006.peak 51982: 2 patents19821991: 2 patents1992: 2 patents19921993: 4 patents1994: 2 patents19941996: 2 patents1997: 2 patents19971998: 1 patents2001: 1 patents20012005: 1 patents2006: 5 patents20062007: 1 patents2009: 1 patents2009

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 26 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7639697 Facilitating digital subscriber line services via a subscriber premise network interface device Richard M. Czerwiec, Richard H. Bailey, Richard R. Rzonca, Gus Sanders, Randall B. Sharpe 2009-12-29 $2,159,000
7274669 Facilitating digital subscriber line services via a subscriber premise network interface device Richard M. Czerwiec, Richard H. Bailey, Richard R. Rzonca, Gus Sanders, Randall B. Sharpe 2007-09-25 $20,922,000
7099313 Replaceable printed board assembly (PBA) Richard M. Czerwiec, Peter Schepers, Geert Arthur Edith Van Wonterghem, Marlin V. Simmering, Eduard C. M. Boeykens +13 more 2006-08-29 $1,732,000
7092394 Line termination equipment Richard M. Czerwiec, Peter Schepers, Geert Arthur Edith Van Wonterghem, Peter A. R. Van Rompu, Kurt Pynaert 2006-08-15 $1,722,000
7042900 Housing for connection to both broadband and narrowband networks as a shelf in a telecommunications rack Richard M. Czerwiec, Peter Schepers, Geert Arthur Edith Van Wonterghem, Marlin V. Simmering, Eduard C. M. Boeykens +6 more 2006-05-09 $1,460,000
7039065 Telecommunications rack including shelves with nonredundant backplanes used redundantly Richard M. Czerwiec, Peter Schepers, Geert Arthur Edith Van Wonterghem, Marlin V. Simmering, Eduard C. M. Boeykens +13 more 2006-05-02 $3,522,000
7023875 Telecommunications system and subscriber equipment therefor Richard M. Czerwiec, Peter Schepers, Geert Arthur Edith Van Wonterghem, Marlin V. Simmering, Eduard C. M. Boeykens +13 more 2006-04-04 $903,000
6940859 Line termination equipment Richard M. Czerwiec, Peter Schepers, Geert Arthur Edith Van Wonterghem, Eduard C. M. Boeykens, Chris Van Der Auwera +3 more 2005-09-06 $1,745,000
6314102 Telecommunications system for providing both narrowband and broadband services to subscribers Richard M. Czerwiec, Peter Schepers, Geert Arthur Edith Van Wonterghem, Marlin V. Simmering, Eduard C. M. Boeykens +13 more 2001-11-06 $3,944,000
5726355 Apparatus for detecting a change in volumetric integrity of an enclosure Michael J. Gingell 1998-03-10 $2,555,000
5687014 Optical distribution shelf for a remote terminal of an optical fiber telecommunications network Richard M. Czerwiec, Marlin V. Simmering, Andrew L. Withers, Robert S. Kroninger 1997-11-11 $2,048,000
5594576 Optical serial bus interface Paul M. Matsumura 1997-01-14 $1,089,000
5576874 Optical distribution shelf for a remote terminal of an optical fiber telecommunications network Richard M. Czerwiec, Marlin V. Simmering, Andrew L. Withers, Robert S. Kroninger 1996-11-19 $412,000
5500753 Method and system for connecting an optical network unit with a plurality of user sites 1996-03-19 $2,074,000
5303229 Optical network unit Andrew L. Withers, Richard M. Czerwiec, William C. Meador, Larry W. Burton 1994-04-12 $305,000
5301050 Subscriber loop testing in a fiber-to-the-curb communications network Richard M. Czerwiec 1994-04-05 $440,000
5191456 Efficient feeder fiber loading from distribution fibers Paul M. Matsumura 1993-03-02 $349,000
5189673 Method and apparatus for controlling switched video in an optical fiber telecommunications system Larry W. Burton, Paul M. Matsumura, Karen V. Ball, Richard M. Czerwiec 1993-02-23 $189,000
5185736 Synchronous optical transmission system Raymond E. Tyrrell, O. Lamar Bishop, William E. Powell, Dale L. Krisher, William H. Stephenson, Jr. +28 more 1993-02-09 $679,000
5181106 Video line shelf arrangement in an optical fiber telecommunications network providing broadband switched video services 1993-01-19 $720,000
5161152 High-speed synchronous transmission line access terminal Richard M. Czerwiec, Raymond E. Tyrrell, Gus Sanders, Richard J. Sanders, Jr., Claude M. Hurlocker +3 more 1992-11-03 $118,000
5088089 Apparatus for programmably accessing and assigning time slots in a time division multiplexed communication system Michael J. Gingell 1992-02-11
5014268 Parallel time slot interchanger matrix and switch block module for use therewith Milton R. Briscoe, Raymond E. Tyrrell 1991-05-07
4993019 Line unit interface circuit Gary B. Cole, Michael J. Gingell, Paul M. Matsumura 1991-02-12
4348758 Digital debouncing and storage apparatus for use in a telephone switching system 1982-09-07 $1,959,000