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James D. Muchow — 7 Patents

Cisco: 7 patents #2,035 of 13,007Top 20%
Zimmerman, MN: #13 of 80 inventorsTop 20%
Minnesota: #10,472 of 52,454 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #680,018 of 4,157,543Top 20%
7 Patents All Time
James D. Muchow has been granted 7 US patents while listed as an inventor at Cisco. The first was granted in 2007 and the most recent in December 2010. James D. Muchow ranks #680,018 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 16.4%). Patent records list James D. Muchow in Zimmerman, MN, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2007 to 2010Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2008.peak 42007: 1 patents20072008: 4 patents20082009: 1 patents20092010: 1 patents2010

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–7 of 7 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7856480 Method and apparatus for exchanging heartbeat messages and configuration information between nodes operating in a master-slave configuration 2010-12-21 $88,227,000
7587465 Method and apparatus for configuring nodes as masters or slaves 2009-09-08 $34,246,000
7437477 SCSI-based storage area network having a SCSI router that routes traffic between SCSI and IP networks Timothy J. Kuik, David Thompson, Mark A. Bakke, Clayton Stuart Haapala, Stephen P. De Groote +1 more 2008-10-14 $42,593,000
7421478 Method and apparatus for exchanging heartbeat messages and configuration information between nodes operating in a master-slave configuration 2008-09-02 $43,395,000
7389332 Method and apparatus for supporting communications between nodes operating in a master-slave configuration Mark A. Bakke 2008-06-17 $70,762,000
7353259 Method and apparatus for exchanging configuration information between nodes operating in a master-slave configuration Mark A. Bakke, Craig Johnson, Donald W. Teske 2008-04-01 $48,048,000
7165258 SCSI-based storage area network having a SCSI router that routes traffic between SCSI and IP networks Timothy J. Kuik, David Thompson, Mark A. Bakke, Clayton Stuart Haapala, Stephen P. De Groote +1 more 2007-01-16 $90,559,000