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Bruce Eckstein — 6 Patents

Apple: 6 patents #4,834 of 18,612Top 30%
Cupertino, CA: #2,350 of 6,989 inventorsTop 35%
California: #94,478 of 386,348 inventorsTop 25%
Overall (All Time): #779,687 of 4,157,543Top 20%
6 Patents All Time
Bruce Eckstein has been granted 6 US patents while listed as an inventor at Apple. The first was granted in 1997 and the most recent in November 1999. Bruce Eckstein ranks #779,687 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 18.8%). Patent records list Bruce Eckstein in Cupertino, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1997 to 1999Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 1999.peak 31997: 1 patents19971998: 2 patents19981999: 3 patents1999

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–6 of 6 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
5990861 Method of and apparatus for reprogramming a video controller 1999-11-23 $50,289,000
5983302 Method and apparatus for arbitration and access to a shared bus Kevin M. Christiansen, Mark Adrian Stubbs 1999-11-09 $39,183,000
5872936 Apparatus for and method of arbitrating bus conflicts 1999-02-16 $8,307,000
5787264 Method and apparatus for arbitrating access to a shared bus Kevin M. Christiansen, Mark Adrian Stubbs 1998-07-28 $19,515,000
5717952 DMA controller with mechanism for conditional action under control of status register, prespecified parameters, and condition field of channel command Kevin M. Christiansen, David V. James 1998-02-10 $20,107,000
5689725 System for generating status signals of second bus on first bus by comparing actual phase of the second bus with expected phase of second bus Michael K. Eneboe, Kevin M. Christiansen 1997-11-18 $5,026,000