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Thomas Hughes — 16 Patents

Broadcom: 11 patents #977 of 9,346Top 15%
IBM: 1 patents #44,878 of 70,183Top 65%
Raleigh, NC: #507 of 6,378 inventorsTop 8%
North Carolina: #3,044 of 45,564 inventorsTop 7%
Overall (All Time): #284,196 of 4,157,543Top 7%
16 Patents All Time
Thomas Hughes has been granted 16 US patents while listed as an inventor at Broadcom. The first was granted in 1989 and the most recent in April 2009. Thomas Hughes ranks #284,196 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 6.8%). Patent records list Thomas Hughes in Raleigh, NC, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1989 to 2009Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2008.peak 51989: 1 patents19891993: 1 patents19931998: 1 patents19982000: 1 patents20002005: 2 patents20052006: 2 patents20062007: 1 patents20072008: 5 patents20082009: 2 patents2009

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–16 of 16 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7515504 Phase controlled high speed interfaces Lionel J. D'Luna, Mark Chambers, Kwang Young Kim, Sathish Kumar Radhakrishnan 2009-04-07 $5,302,000
7499503 Parallel concatenated code with soft-in soft-out interactive turbo decoder Kelly Brian Cameron, Ba-Zhong Shen, Hau Thien Tran, Christopher R. Jones 2009-03-03 $6,197,000
7430680 System and method to align clock signals Lionel J. D'Luna, Sathish Kumar Radhakrishnan 2008-09-30 $12,385,000
7421034 Parallel concatenated code with soft-in soft-out interactive turbo decoder Kelly Brian Cameron, Ba-Zhong Shen, Hau Thien Tran, Christopher R. Jones 2008-09-02 $6,753,000
7409006 Parallel concatenated code with soft-in-soft-out interactive turbo decoder Kelly Brian Cameron, Ba-Zhong Shen, Hau Thien Tran, Christopher R. Jones 2008-08-05 $6,299,000
7360146 Inverse function of min*:min*- (inverse function of max*:max*-) Ba-Zhong Shen, Kelly Brian Cameron, Hau Thien Tran 2008-04-15 $7,672,000
7333390 Phase controlled high speed interfaces Lionel J. D'Luna, Mark Chambers, Kwang Young Kim, Sathish Kumar Radhakrishnan 2008-02-19 $4,077,000
7242726 Parallel concatenated code with soft-in soft-out interactive turbo decoder Kelly Brian Cameron, Ba-Zhong Shen, Hau Thien Tran, Christopher R. Jones 2007-07-10 $10,210,000
7137059 Single stage implementation of min*, max*, min and /or max to perform state metric calculation in SISO decoder Kelly Brian Cameron, Hau Thien Tran 2006-11-14 $9,916,000
7023934 Method and apparatus for min star calculations in a map decoder Hau Thien Tran, Kelly Brian Cameron 2006-04-04 $23,049,000
6975557 Phase controlled high speed interfaces Lionel J. D'Luna, Mark Chambers, Kwang Young Kim, Sathish Kumar Radhakrishnan 2005-12-13 $8,880,000
6882117 Apparatus and methods for continuous and/or selective production of multiple light displays Matthew E. Anderson 2005-04-19
6067327 Data transmitter and method therefor John L. Creigh, Michel Ferry, Scott David Huss 2000-05-23 $39,585,000
5844377 Kinetically multicolored light source Matthew E. Anderson 1998-12-01
5229668 Method and apparatus for high speed digital sampling of a data signal Carl Thomas Gray, Wentai Liu, Ralph K. Cavin, III 1993-07-20
4821224 Method and apparatus for processing multi-dimensional data to obtain a Fourier transform Wentai Liu, William T. Krakow 1989-04-11

Frequent Collaborators

Kelly Brian Cameron7 shared
Hau Thien Tran7 shared
Ba-Zhong Shen5 shared
Sathish Kumar Radhakrishnan4 shared
Lionel J. D'Luna4 shared
Christopher R. Jones4 shared

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