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Kenneth L. Walker — 77 Patents

ATAT&T: 49 patents #243 of 18,772Top 2%
BTBrightview Technologies: 14 patents #3 of 22Top 15%
ASAdc Dsl Systems: 4 patents #20 of 104Top 20%
RTRemote Technology: 3 patents #2 of 7Top 30%
BLBell Telephone Laboratories: 1 patents #567 of 1,445Top 40%
FUFitel Usa: 1 patents #112 of 266Top 45%
TSTyco Submarine Systems: 1 patents #15 of 36Top 45%
Semora, NC: #1 of 6 inventorsTop 20%
North Carolina: #273 of 45,564 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #24,274 of 4,157,543Top 1%
77 Patents All Time
Kenneth L. Walker has been granted 77 US patents while listed as an inventor at AT&T. The first was granted in 1981 and the most recent in July 2025. Kenneth L. Walker ranks #24,274 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.58%). Patent records list Kenneth L. Walker in Semora, NC, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1981 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 8 patents in 2000.peak 81981: 1 patents19811985: 1 patents1986: 1 patents1987: 1 patents19871988: 3 patents1990: 2 patents1991: 7 patents19911992: 1 patents1993: 4 patents1994: 3 patents19941995: 4 patents1996: 5 patents1997: 6 patents19971998: 1 patents1999: 6 patents2000: 8 patents20002001: 1 patents2002: 2 patents2003: 1 patents20032004: 2 patents2008: 1 patents2009: 1 patents20092011: 1 patents2021: 1 patents2022: 3 patents20222023: 3 patents2024: 4 patents2025: 3 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 77 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12360418 Edge-lit back light unit using prism microstructures Bing Shen, Matthew K. Pope 2025-07-15
12228818 Back light unit for backlit displays Matthew K. Pope 2025-02-18
12228819 Back light unit for backlit displays Juhyun Lee 2025-02-18
12050381 Color conversion film for backlight unit Juhyun Lee 2024-07-30
12032242 Back light unit for backlit displays Matthew K. Pope 2024-07-09
12001097 Edge-lit back light unit with improved efficiency Bing Shen, Matthew K. Pope 2024-06-04
11906842 Optical film for back light unit and back light unit including same Jennifer Aspell, Thomas A. Rinehart, Bing Shen 2024-02-20
11822158 Back light unit for backlit displays Bing Shen, Matthew K. Pope 2023-11-21
11668975 Edge-lit back light unit with improved efficiency Bing Shen, Matthew K. Pope 2023-06-06
11630346 Back light unit for backlit displays Bing Shen, Matthew K. Pope 2023-04-18
11531232 Optical film for back light unit and back light unit including same Jennifer Aspell, Thomas A. Rinehart, Bing Shen 2022-12-20
11520182 Color conversion film back light unit for backlit displays Juhyun Lee 2022-12-06
11441756 Vertically integrated transmissive microstructures for transforming light having Lambertian distribution Jennifer Aspell, Bing Shen 2022-09-13
11181776 Back light unit for backlit displays Bing Shen, Matthew K. Pope 2021-11-23
8073134 Function for controlling line powered network element Dieter H. Nattkemper 2011-12-06
7567665 Function for controlling line powered network element Dieter H. Nattkemper 2009-07-28
7454012 Managing power in a line powered network element Dieter H. Nattkemper, Melvin Phillips 2008-11-18
6810041 Integrated access device Dieter H. Nattkemper, Robert S. Kroninger 2004-10-26
6694099 Power and wavelength management for mixed-rate optical data systems Andrew R. Chraplyvy 2004-02-17 $15,630,000
6580536 Power and wavelength management for mixed-rate optical data systems Andrew R. Chraplyvy 2003-06-17 $14,417,000
6499318 Glass optical waveguides passivated against hydrogen-induced loss increases Paul J. Lemaire 2002-12-31
6370300 Optical communication system incorporating automatic dispersion compensation modules Benjamin John Eggleton, Torben N. Nielsen, John A. Rogers, Thomas Andrew Strasser 2002-04-09 $14,987,000
6307988 Optical fiber communication system incorporating automatic dispersion compensation modules to compensate for temperature induced variations Benjamin John Eggleton, John A. Rogers, Thomas Andrew Strasser 2001-10-23 $34,552,000
6163636 Optical communication system using multiple-order Raman amplifiers Andrew John Stentz 2000-12-19 $26,094,000
6145345 Modified chemical vapor deposition using independently controlled thermal sources Stanley F. Marszalek, Katherine Theresa Nelson, Kim Willard Womack, Man F. Yan 2000-11-14 $30,398,000