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Control Data — 141 Patents

Rank (All Time): #5,056 of 105,732Top 5%
192 inventors
141 Patents All Time

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1980 to 1998Bar chart with a peak of 20 patents in 1984.peak 201980: 10 patents19801981: 7 patents1982: 14 patents19821983: 12 patents1984: 20 patents19841985: 14 patents1986: 7 patents19861987: 17 patents1988: 14 patents19881989: 8 patents1990: 11 patents19901991: 4 patents1992: 1 patents19921993: 1 patents1998: 1 patents1998

Top Inventors at Control Data All Time

Showing 51–100 of 192 inventors

RankNamePatents
#17 Sou-Hsiung J. Chiu 2
#17 Susana Stoica 2
#17 Terry L Lyon 2
#17 William C. Berg 2
#17 William J. Rank 2
#56 Robert H. Patchen 1
#56 John Valun 1
#56 Richard M. Sedro 1
#56 Timothy W. Moline 1
#56 Raymond C. Kort 1
#56 Ivan Jelenek 1
#56 Clarence H. Kammann 1
#56 Robert F. Vangen 1
#56 Allan Johnson 1
#56 Andrey Varpahovsky 1
#56 Arthur Webb Allison, III 1
#56 Arthur Calderon 1
#56 Beat G. Keel 1
#56 Bohdan Stryzak 1
#56 Bruce L. Petersen 1
#56 Bruce E. Russo 1
#56 Carl B. Gipson 1
#56 Charles A. Brown 1
#56 Charles N. Miller 1
#56 Chris P. Symanski 1
#56 Clark Bergman 1
#56 Claude A. Rankin 1
#56 Colin Cramm 1
#56 Colin M. Searle 1
#56 David Bono 1
#56 Daniel J. Desmonds 1
#56 David M. Myers 1
#56 David R. Resnick 1
#56 David Shick 1
#56 Dewey W. Smith 1
#56 Douglas M. Carlson 1
#56 Donald J. Gagne 1
#56 Dolan H. Toth 1
#56 Duane Putnam 1
#56 Edward C. Dougherty 1
#56 Edward Heller 1
#56 Edward L. Schwarz 1
#56 Frank T. Brady 1
#56 Gary W. Schober 1
#56 Gene Patrick Bonnie 1
#56 George P. Hyatt 1
#56 Gerald H. Johnson 1
#56 Glenn M. Boles 1
#56 Glenn J. Gulbranson 1
#56 Gregory W. Machesney 1

Most Valuable Patents

PatentEst. ValueYear
Non-obtrusive programming monitor$2M1993

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