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Karl B. Offerman — 6 Patents

CPCipher Data Products: 5 patents #2 of 24Top 9%
ODOverland Data: 1 patents #3 of 7Top 45%
San Diego, CA: #6,452 of 23,606 inventorsTop 30%
California: #94,478 of 386,348 inventorsTop 25%
Overall (All Time): #779,687 of 4,157,543Top 20%
6 Patents All Time
Karl B. Offerman has been granted 6 US patents while listed as an inventor at Cipher Data Products. The first was granted in 1981 and the most recent in March 2002. Karl B. Offerman ranks #779,687 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 18.8%). Patent records list Karl B. Offerman in San Diego, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1981 to 2002Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 1986.peak 21981: 1 patents19811986: 2 patents19861987: 1 patents19871988: 1 patents19882002: 1 patents2002

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–6 of 6 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
6353581 Media access in a media library Kevin T. Kersey 2002-03-05 $2,271,000
4785363 Cartridge alignment mechanism for tape drive Lynn C. Jacobs, Ronald D. Irvin 1988-11-15 $1,332,000
4677508 Endwise loaded cartridge tape drive William M. Barton, Jr., John F. Murphy, Richard G. Fisher 1987-06-30 $1,702,000
4609958 Precision bearing for reciprocating a magnetic head Ronald D. Irvin, Lynn C. Jacobs 1986-09-02 $2,232,000
4573091 Cartridge tape drive William M. Barton, Jr., John F. Murphy, Richard G. Fisher 1986-02-25 $2,992,000
4243186 Low profile magnetic tape drive with vacuum actuated auto-threading Jack Peter, Larry D. Brown, Derek J. Stone 1981-01-06