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John R. Masters — 9 Patents

CCCompaq Computer: 5 patents #216 of 1,604Top 15%
TGTandon Group: 3 patents #7 of 32Top 25%
Xerox: 1 patents #5,237 of 8,622Top 65%
Dallas, TX: #863 of 7,543 inventorsTop 15%
Texas: #16,980 of 125,132 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #535,341 of 4,157,543Top 15%
9 Patents All Time
John R. Masters has been granted 9 US patents while listed as an inventor at Compaq Computer. The first was granted in 1982 and the most recent in October 2000. John R. Masters ranks #535,341 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 12.9%). Patent records list John R. Masters in Dallas, TX, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1982 to 2000Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 1991.peak 31982: 1 patents19821991: 3 patents19911998: 2 patents19981999: 1 patents19992000: 2 patents2000

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–9 of 9 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
6141312 Optical tape drive that performs direct read after write operations Keith Pollock, A. Rene Martinez, James R. Luttrall 2000-10-31 $170,498,000
6058092 Optical tape drive that includes redundant optical heads to perform failure recovery Keith Pollock, A. Rene Martinez, James R. Luttrall 2000-05-02 $71,815,000
5909210 Keyboard-compatible optical determination of object's position Richard M. Knox, Kevin Clancy 1999-06-01 $157,190,000
5786810 Method of determining an object's position and associated apparatus Richard M. Knox 1998-07-28 $152,696,000
5734375 Keyboard-compatible optical determination of object's position Richard M. Knox, Kevin Clancy 1998-03-31 $104,181,000
5075805 Disk drive controller system Charles I. Peddle, James M. Donahue, Michael T. Dugan, William G. Swinton, Bruce Fairman +4 more 1991-12-24 $1,900,000
5016121 Disk drive controller system Charles I. Peddle, Robert G. Taylor, Glenn Stark, Kenneth M. Stein, James M. Donohue +4 more 1991-05-14 $5,078,000
5014237 Disk drive controller system with enhanced communications interface Dennis R. Briscoe 1991-05-07 $5,068,000
4353656 Moving coil, multiple energy print hammer system including a closed loop servo Gordon Sohl, John R. Leicht 1982-10-12 $2,505,000