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Michael D. Cheaney — 11 Patents

ATAT&T: 9 patents #2,006 of 18,772Top 15%
TTThe Southwestern Bell Telephone: 1 patents #14 of 41Top 35%
IBM: 1 patents #44,878 of 70,183Top 65%
Arnold, MO: #8 of 102 inventorsTop 8%
Missouri: #1,834 of 23,789 inventorsTop 8%
Overall (All Time): #435,149 of 4,157,543Top 15%
11 Patents All Time
Michael D. Cheaney has been granted 11 US patents while listed as an inventor at AT&T. The first was granted in 2004 and the most recent in December 2016. Michael D. Cheaney ranks #435,149 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 10.5%). Patent records list Michael D. Cheaney in Arnold, MO, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2004 to 2016Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2014.peak 32004: 1 patents20042009: 1 patents20092010: 2 patents20102011: 1 patents20112012: 1 patents20122014: 3 patents20142015: 1 patents20152016: 1 patents2016

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–11 of 11 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9531546 Methods and apparatus to certify digital signatures Brian M. Novack, David Dunmire, Daniel Madsen, Timothy R. Thompson 2016-12-27 $48,772,000
8972735 Methods and apparatus to certify digital signatures Brian M. Novack, David Dunmire, Daniel Madsen, Timothy R. Thompson 2015-03-03 $21,377,000
8898458 Method for communicating certificates to computers Brian M. Novack, Daniel Madsen, Timothy R. Thompson 2014-11-25 $17,859,000
8763011 Transaction tool management integration with change management Brian M. Novack, Timothy R. Thompson 2014-06-24 $12,637,000
8700902 Methods and apparatus to certify digital signatures Brian M. Novack, David Dunmire, Daniel Madsen, Timothy R. Thompson 2014-04-15 $15,010,000
8234659 Transaction tool management integration with change management Brian M. Novack, Timothy R. Thompson 2012-07-31 $48,295,000
7974385 User interface and system to facilitate telephone circuit maintenance and testing William R. Jones, Rod A. Opel 2011-07-05 $9,300,000
7765398 Method of promulgating a transaction tool to a recipient Brian M. Novack, Daniel Madsen, Timothy R. Thompson 2010-07-27 $61,328,000
7661110 Transaction tool management integration with change management Brian M. Novack, Timothy R. Thompson 2010-02-09 $36,115,000
7546454 Automated digital certificate discovery and management Brian M. Novack, Daniel Madsen, Timothy R. Thompson 2009-06-09 $44,486,000
6687335 User interface and system to facilitate telephone circuit maintenance and testing William R. Jones, Rod A. Opel 2004-02-03

Frequent Collaborators

Timothy R. Thompson9 shared
Brian M. Novack9 shared
Daniel Madsen6 shared
David Dunmire3 shared
Rod A. Opel2 shared
William R. Jones2 shared

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