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Scott Bales — 6 Patents

Cisco: 5 patents #2,819 of 13,007Top 25%
Durham, NC: #853 of 4,103 inventorsTop 25%
North Carolina: #8,673 of 45,564 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #779,687 of 4,157,543Top 20%
6 Patents All Time
Scott Bales has been granted 6 US patents while listed as an inventor at Cisco. The first was granted in 2000 and the most recent in July 2007. Scott Bales ranks #779,687 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 18.8%). Patent records list Scott Bales in Durham, NC, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2000 to 2007Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2002.peak 22000: 1 patents20002001: 1 patents20012002: 2 patents20022004: 1 patents20042007: 1 patents2007

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–6 of 6 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7246168 Technique for improving the interaction between data link switch backup peer devices and ethernet switches 2007-07-17 $88,601,000
6680942 Directory services caching for network peer to peer service locator Andrew Joseph Mead, Arunkumar B. Thippeswamy, John Lautmann, Mark Denny 2004-01-20 $162,114,000
6493706 Arrangement for enhancing weighted element searches in dynamically balanced trees Andrew Joseph Mead 2002-12-10 $415,857,000
6343330 Arrangement for preventing looping of explorer frames in a transparent bridging domain having multiple entry points Arun G. Khanna, Arunkumar B. Thippeswamy, Frank G. Bordonaro, Patricia Ann Webster, Uwe Sellentin 2002-01-29 $757,218,000
6264016 Mobile power center with self-retracting cord 2001-07-24
6061728 Arrangement for controlling network proxy device traffic on a transparently-bridged local area network using a master proxy device Andrew Joseph Mead, Frank G. Bordonaro, John Lautmann, Uwe Sellentin 2000-05-09 $966,145,000