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 2000 Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 1991. peak 3 1982: 1 patents 1982 1991: 3 patents 1991 1998: 2 patents 1998 1999: 1 patents 1999 2000: 2 patents 2000
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Showing 1–9 of 9 patents
Patent # Title Co-Inventors Date Approx 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