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Peter Coad — 12 Patents

BSBorland Software: 11 patents #2 of 71Top 3%
La Habra, CA: #21 of 310 inventorsTop 7%
California: #51,404 of 386,348 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #396,045 of 4,157,543Top 10%
12 Patents All Time
Peter Coad has been granted 12 US patents while listed as an inventor at Borland Software. The first was granted in 1983 and the most recent in February 2009. Peter Coad ranks #396,045 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 9.5%). Patent records list Peter Coad in La Habra, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1983 to 2009Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2005.peak 51983: 1 patents19832005: 5 patents20052006: 4 patents20062007: 1 patents20072009: 1 patents2009

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–12 of 12 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7493591 Methods and systems for animating a workflow and a project plan Dietrich Charisius 2009-02-17 $655,000
7171646 Generating source code for object oriented elements with language neutral transient meta model and correlating display of names, symbols and code Dietrich Charisius 2007-01-30 $2,822,000
7055130 Methods and systems for identifying dependencies between object-oriented elements Dietrich Charisius 2006-05-30 $1,668,000
7055131 Methods and systems for animating the interaction of objects in an object oriented program Dietrich Charisius 2006-05-30 $1,668,000
6993759 Diagrammatic control of software in a version control system Alexander Aptus, Dietrich Charisius 2006-01-31 $2,278,000
6993710 Method and system for displaying changes of source code Dietrich Charisius 2006-01-31 $2,278,000
6976243 Method and system for developing source code and displaying linked elements found within the source code Dietrich Charisius 2005-12-13 $4,523,000
6938240 Methods and systems for improving a workflow based on data mined from plans created from the workflow Dietrich Charisius, Jonathan Kern 2005-08-30 $4,323,000
6931625 Method and system for collapsing a graphical representation of related elements Dietrich Charisius, Alexander Aptus 2005-08-16 $4,521,000
6851105 Method and system for generating, applying, and defining a pattern Dietrich Charisius, Alexander Aptus 2005-02-01 $3,353,000
6851107 Software development tool with instant updating and simultaneous view of graphical and a textual display of source code Dietrich Charisius, Alexander Aptus 2005-02-01 $3,353,000
4392409 System for transcribing analog signals, particularly musical notes, having characteristic frequencies and durations into corresponding visible indicia David E. Wilensky 1983-07-12