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Walter Hurwitz — 5 Patents

Broadcom: 3 patents #3,179 of 9,346Top 35%
ITIcs Technologies: 1 patents #2 of 8Top 25%
NSNational Semiconductor: 1 patents #1,247 of 2,238Top 60%
Sunnyvale, CA: #4,829 of 14,302 inventorsTop 35%
California: #107,996 of 386,348 inventorsTop 30%
Overall (All Time): #907,971 of 4,157,543Top 25%
5 Patents All Time
Walter Hurwitz has been granted 5 US patents while listed as an inventor at Broadcom. The first was granted in 1999 and the most recent in June 2014. Walter Hurwitz ranks #907,971 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 21.8%). Patent records list Walter Hurwitz in Sunnyvale, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1999 to 2014Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 1999.peak 21999: 2 patents19992009: 1 patents20092011: 1 patents20112014: 1 patents2014

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–5 of 5 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8756650 Dynamic authentication of a user Bruce Wolfson, Michael (Hongbin) Ji 2014-06-17 $7,088,000
7894464 Apparatus and method for auto-negotiation in a communication system Richard G. Thousand, Kevin Brown, Gary S. Huff 2011-02-22 $3,697,000
7558280 Apparatus and method for auto-negotiation in a communication system Richard G. Thousand, Kevin Brown, Garry Huff 2009-07-07 $7,462,000
5886688 Integrated solar panel and liquid crystal display for portable computer or the like David Fifield 1999-03-23 $11,688,000
5884041 Method and apparatus for monitoring auto-negotiation progress 1999-03-16