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Bell Canada
— 32 Patents
Rank
(All Time):
#19,636
of
105,917
Top 20%
48
inventors
32
Patents All Time
Patents per Year
Patents granted per year, 1986 to 2005
Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2002.
peak 4
1986: 1 patents
1986
1987: 2 patents
1988: 1 patents
1988
1989: 1 patents
1990: 1 patents
1990
1992: 1 patents
1993: 1 patents
1993
1995: 3 patents
1997: 1 patents
1997
1998: 1 patents
1999: 3 patents
1999
2000: 2 patents
2001: 2 patents
2001
2002: 4 patents
2003: 3 patents
2003
2004: 2 patents
2005: 3 patents
2005
Top Inventors at Bell Canada
All Time
Showing
1–48
of
48
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
1
L. Lloyd Williams
7
2
Tet Hin Yeap
5
3
Michel Lalonde
4
#4
Colin A. Reid
3
#4
William G. O'Brien
3
#4
William P. Trumble
3
#7
Alan Doherty
2
#7
David Kenneth Fenton
2
#7
Douglas MacDonald
2
#7
Gordon J. Gilbert
2
#7
Matthew Lennig
2
#7
Neil S. Rieck
2
#7
Robert Yip
2
#7
Stephane Fortier
2
#7
Stephen M. Kennel
2
#7
Terry Shannon
2
#17
Michel Tougas
1
#17
Gordon R. Melick
1
#17
Gilles Trepanier
1
#17
Cheryl M. Maritan
1
#17
Alan D. Ross
1
#17
Bernard Courville
1
#17
Benoit Landry
1
#17
Bharathi Ganesan
1
#17
Christopher K. Toulson
1
#17
Esam ABDEL-RAHEEM
1
#17
Francois Dugre
1
#17
Futong Cui
1
#17
Gregory J. Bielby
1
#17
Jean Bouchard
1
#17
John N. R. Ruddick
1
#17
Joe Serrano
1
#17
Kevin H. Dick
1
#17
LOUIS-PHILIPPE LAROCHE
1
#17
Luc Samson
1
#17
Michel Lessard
1
#17
Michael Mavreas
1
#17
Normand A. Clermont
1
#17
Patrick Kenny
1
#17
Pierre Gauthier
1
#17
Pierre Girard
1
#17
Robert S. Jones
1
#17
Ron Kelly
1
#17
Robert Douglas Sharp
1
#17
Thomas C. Charlton
1
#17
Vishwa Gupta
1
#17
Vincent So
1
#17
Frederick Joseph Kaudel
1
Most Valuable Patents
Patent
Est. Value
Year
Method of controlling call traffic in a telecommunication system
$208M
1999
Method and apparatus for monitoring selected telecommunications sessions in an intelligent switched telephone network
$175M
1999
Method and apparatus for dynamically routing calls in an intelligent network
$152M
2001
High speed analog-to-digital converter and digital-to-analog converter
$151M
2002
Suppression of radio frequency interference and impulse noise in communications channels
$150M
2003
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