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Bob Needham — 5 Patents

Cisco: 4 patents #3,400 of 13,007Top 30%
Chattanooga, TN: #77 of 608 inventorsTop 15%
Tennessee: #3,760 of 20,272 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #907,971 of 4,157,543Top 25%
5 Patents All Time
Bob Needham has been granted 5 US patents while listed as an inventor at Cisco. The first was granted in 2010 and the most recent in October 2018. Bob Needham ranks #907,971 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 21.8%). Patent records list Bob Needham in Chattanooga, TN, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2010 to 2018Bar chart with a peak of 1 patents in 2010.peak 12010: 1 patents20102011: 1 patents20112013: 1 patents20132015: 1 patents20152018: 1 patents2018

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–5 of 5 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10106318 Multi-purpose plastic bag holder for use with a retractable dog leash and in other scalable waste containment configurations 2018-10-23
8990754 Optimizing application specific integrated circuit pinouts for high density interconnect printed circuit boards Steven C. Bird, Linda M. Mazaheri, Phuong Rosalynn Duong 2015-03-24 $22,769,000
8344266 Optimizing ASIC pinouts for HDI Steven C. Bird, Linda M. Mazaheri, Phuong Rosalynn Duong 2013-01-01
7979983 Connection an integrated circuit on a surface layer of a printed circuit board Steven C. Bird, Linda M. Mazaheri, Phuong Rosalynn Duong 2011-07-19 $43,590,000
7757196 Optimizing application specific integrated circuit pinouts for high density interconnect printed circuit boards Steven C. Bird, Linda M. Mazaheri, Phuong Rosalynn Duong 2010-07-13 $30,799,000