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Robert John Frank — 5 Patents

ATAT&T: 5 patents #3,621 of 18,772Top 20%
Silver Spring, MD: #309 of 1,812 inventorsTop 20%
Maryland: #6,599 of 35,612 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #907,971 of 4,157,543Top 25%
5 Patents All Time
Robert John Frank has been granted 5 US patents while listed as an inventor at AT&T. The first was granted in 2001 and the most recent in April 2005. Robert John Frank ranks #907,971 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 21.8%). Patent records list Robert John Frank in Silver Spring, MD, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–5 of 5 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
6876744 Methods and apparatus for enhanced CMEA including a CMEA iteration preceded and followed by transformations and employing an involuntary lookup Mark H. Etzel, Daniel Nelson Heer, Robert Joseph McNelis, Semyon B. Mizikovsky, Robert J. Rance +1 more 2005-04-05 $19,664,000
6418224 Methods and apparatus for self-inverting multiple-iteration CMEA crypto-processing for improved security for wireless telephone messages Mark H. Etzel, Daniel Nelson Heer, Robert Joseph McNelis, Semyon B. Mizikovsky, Robert J. Rance +1 more 2002-07-09 $10,500,000
6377687 Methods and apparatus for enhanced CMEA employing enhanced transformations Mark H. Etzel, Daniel Nelson Heer, Robert Joseph McNelis, Semyon B. Mizikovsky, Robert J. Rance +1 more 2002-04-23 $10,373,000
6266411 Method and apparatus for multiple-iteration CMEA encryption and decryption for improved security for wireless telephone messages Mark H. Etzel, Daniel Nelson Heer, Robert Joseph McNelis, Semyon B. Mizikovsky, Robert J. Rance +1 more 2001-07-24 $18,571,000
6233337 Methods and apparatus for enhanced security expansion of a secret key into a lookup table for improved security for wireless telephone messages Mark H. Etzel, Daniel Nelson Heer, Robert Joseph McNelis, Semyon B. Mizikovsky, Robert J. Rance +1 more 2001-05-15 $37,602,000