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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 101–150 of 192 inventors

RankNamePatents
#56 H. Eugene Satterfield 1
#56 Harold R. Walker 1
#56 Herman T. Nielsen 1
#56 James Gordon 1
#56 James L. Jasmin 1
#56 James W. Kelley 1
#56 James S. Newcomb 1
#56 James D. Peacock 1
#56 James E. Smith 1
#56 Jeff Chritz 1
#56 Jeff R. McSpadden 1
#56 Jeffrey C. Swinehart 1
#56 Jerry T. Thatcher 1
#56 Joseph A. Cullity 1
#56 John Erik Hershey 1
#56 John H. A. Ketzler 1
#56 John Mathews 1
#56 John Meyer 1
#56 John S. Shier 1
#56 Joseph D. Vaughan 1
#56 Jon C. Wilson, deceased 1
#56 Kenneth R. Foote 1
#56 Kelan Thomas Moynagh 1
#56 Kenneth W. Silvers 1
#56 Lewis W. Fogg 1
#56 Leo Marvin Rosenstein 1
#56 Lloyd M. Thorndyke 1
#56 Louis W. Conley 1
#56 Lowell H. Schiebe 1
#56 Marc BERGERON 1
#56 Maurice L. Hutson 1
#56 Michael Dalterio 1
#56 Michael W. Fellinger 1
#56 Michael Nystrom 1
#56 Michael J. Whalen 1
#56 Patrick R. Machnik 1
#56 Paul F. Michalek 1
#56 Philip White 1
#56 Rand B. Nickerson 1
#56 Randall L. Ohman 1
#56 Ralph Walter Peterson 1
#56 Randall L. Sandusky 1
#56 Richard Pedersen 1
#56 Richard D. Ries 1
#56 Richard B. Salmonson 1
#56 Richard Tran 1
#56 Richard Williams 1
#56 Robert Burke 1
#56 Roger W. Cree 1
#56 Ronald R. Denny 1

Most Valuable Patents

PatentEst. ValueYear
Non-obtrusive programming monitor$2M1993

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