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William A. Oswald — 15 Patents

ATAT&T: 6 patents #3,060 of 18,772Top 20%
ISIpc Information Systems: 3 patents #6 of 13Top 50%
LSLattice Semiconductor: 2 patents #213 of 544Top 40%
IBM: 2 patents #32,909 of 70,183Top 50%
ACActuate: 1 patents #18 of 41Top 45%
Carpentersville, IL: #11 of 157 inventorsTop 8%
Illinois: #5,664 of 84,256 inventorsTop 7%
Overall (All Time): #307,048 of 4,157,543Top 8%
15 Patents All Time
William A. Oswald has been granted 15 US patents while listed as an inventor at AT&T. The first was granted in 1985 and the most recent in September 2019. William A. Oswald ranks #307,048 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 7.4%). Patent records list William A. Oswald in Carpentersville, IL, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1985 to 2019Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 1995.peak 31985: 1 patents19851993: 2 patents19931994: 1 patents19941995: 3 patents19951996: 2 patents19962002: 1 patents20022004: 1 patents20042009: 1 patents20092011: 2 patents20112019: 1 patents2019

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–15 of 15 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10412594 Network planning tool support for 3D data Dinesh Bathula, Nolan Black, Robert Cribb, Stephen Pierson 2019-09-10 $52,175,000
7937589 Computer grid access management system Janice Lynn Pascoe, Paul E. Schardt, Lance G. Thompson 2011-05-03 $5,933,000
7870480 Methods and apparatus for storing and retrieving annotations accessible by a plurality of reports Jason Chu 2011-01-11 $2,225,000
7523317 Computer grid access management system Janice Lynn Pascoe, Paul E. Schardt, Lance G. Thompson 2009-04-21 $5,028,000
6748575 Programming programmable logic devices using hidden switches Wenyi Feng, Michael Roy, Eric Ting 2004-06-08 $8,169,000
6496969 Programming programmable logic devices using hidden switches Wenyi Feng, Michael Roy, Eric Ting 2002-12-17 $16,399,000
5570039 Programmable function unit as parallel multiplier cell Satwant Singh 1996-10-29 $11,590,000
5528170 Low-skew signal routing in a programmable array Barry Britton, Dwight D. Hill 1996-06-18
5396126 FPGA with distributed switch matrix Barry Britton, Dwight D. Hill 1995-03-07
5384497 Low-skew signal routing in a programmable array Barry Britton, Dwight D. Hill 1995-01-24
5379280 Conferencing system for distributed switching network John M. Cotton, Neil C. Olsen, Alex T. Wissink, Gary V. Pieper, Nicholas Necula +3 more 1995-01-03 $1,636,000
5311080 Field programmable gate array with direct input/output connection Barry Britton, Dwight D. Hill 1994-05-10
5255264 Distributed control switching network for multi-line telephone communications John M. Cotton, Neil C. Olsen, Alex T. Wissink, Gary V. Pieper, Nicholas Necula +3 more 1993-10-19
5237571 Broadcast system for distributed switching network John M. Cotton, Neil C. Olsen, Nicholas Necula 1993-08-17
4521879 Digital private branch exchange Klaus Gueldenpfennig, Stanley L. Russell, Charles J. Breidenstein, Karam V. Narula 1985-06-04