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Tellabs Petaluma
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Tellabs Petaluma
— 34 Patents
Rank
(All Time):
#18,169
of
105,732
Top 20%
50
inventors
34
Patents All Time
Patents per Year
Patents granted per year, 2006 to 2012
Bar chart with a peak of 12 patents in 2007.
peak 12
2006: 7 patents
2006
2007: 12 patents
2007
2008: 6 patents
2008
2009: 4 patents
2009
2010: 1 patents
2010
2011: 3 patents
2011
2012: 1 patents
2012
Top Inventors at Tellabs Petaluma
All Time
Showing
1–50
of
50
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Paul B. Ripy
9
2
Christophe Leroy
7
3
Gary Geerdes
6
#4
Paul O'Connor
5
#5
Keith Chung
4
#6
Allen Wong
3
#6
David A. DeLew
3
#6
Lawrence M. Giacoma
3
#6
Shimon Hochbaum
3
#6
Zhidan Cheng
3
#11
Amar Mohammed Othman
2
#11
Clayton Joseph Emery
2
#11
Daniel J. Calanni
2
#11
G. James Keller
2
#11
Jerry Vereen
2
#11
Jhaanaki Krishnan
2
#11
Moshe Oron
2
#11
Paul Warner
2
#11
Richard Joerger
2
#11
Robert S. Larvenz
2
#11
Shuo Huang
2
#11
Tsang Ming Jiang
2
#11
Weifang Yang
2
#24
Barry Farber
1
#24
Christopher Hankins
1
#24
David M. Austin
1
#24
Douglas A. Atkinson
1
#24
George Dalisay
1
#24
James E. Hooper
1
#24
Jeffrey L. Wilson
1
#24
Jimmy D. Cummings
1
#24
Jose Betancourt
1
#24
Joseph Golja
1
#24
Joseph F. Kidd
1
#24
John A. Stock
1
#24
Marc R. Bernard
1
#24
Mark E. Lewis
1
#24
Manic C. Steyn
1
#24
Nathan D. Knuth
1
#24
Raul F. Fernandez
1
#24
Richard F. Gianni
1
#24
Robert Bivin
1
#24
Ronald Howard Diego
1
#24
Ryan D. Houlgate
1
#24
T. Bryan Varble
1
#24
Thomas E. Conklin
1
#24
Thomas Kitchens
1
#24
Todd Andrew Newhouse
1
#24
Vinita Gupta
1
#24
Weijun Li
1
Most Valuable Patents
Patent
Est. Value
Year
Heat exchanger with increased heat transfer efficiency and a low-cost method of forming the heat exchanger
$58M
2006
Content addressable memory with reduced instantaneous current and power consumption during a search
$54M
2006
Electronics card with an alignment opening
$42M
2007
Apparatus and method that provides a primary server and a backup server that both support a RADIUS client and share an IP address
$41M
2007
Device for circuit board insertion and extraction
$41M
2007
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