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William C. Hallowell — 20 Patents

CCCompaq Computer: 8 patents #122 of 1,604Top 8%
HEHewlett Packard Enterprise: 6 patents #459 of 4,473Top 15%
HP: 3 patents #5,824 of 16,619Top 40%
Nec: 2 patents #5,544 of 14,502Top 40%
PNPackard Bell Nec: 1 patents #49 of 93Top 55%
Spring, TX: #140 of 2,039 inventorsTop 7%
Texas: #6,926 of 125,132 inventorsTop 6%
Overall (All Time): #214,803 of 4,157,543Top 6%
20 Patents All Time
William C. Hallowell has been granted 20 US patents while listed as an inventor at Compaq Computer. The first was granted in 1997 and the most recent in November 2020. William C. Hallowell ranks #214,803 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.2%). Patent records list William C. Hallowell in Spring, TX, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1997 to 2020Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2000.peak 51997: 1 patents19971998: 4 patents19981999: 1 patents19992000: 5 patents20002013: 1 patents20132015: 2 patents20152017: 1 patents20172018: 1 patents20182019: 1 patents20192020: 3 patents2020

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–20 of 20 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10846219 Data copy to non-volatile memory Thierry Fevrier, David F. Heinrich, Mark S Fletcher, Justin H. Park, David W. Engler 2020-11-24 $6,102,000
10788872 Server node shutdown David F. Heinrich, David W. Engler, Patrick A. Raymond 2020-09-29 $8,143,000
10684664 Removable test and diagnostics circuit Raghavan V. Venugopal, Patrick A. Raymond, Han Wang, Chin-Lung Chiang, Jyun-Jie Wang 2020-06-16
10402324 Memory access for busy memory by receiving data from cache during said busy period and verifying said data utilizing cache hit bit or cache miss bit Kevin T. Lim, Sheng Li, Parthasarathy Ranganathan 2019-09-03 $5,045,000
9946590 Transmission of command strings and status strings via memory bus Chuan-Yang Lee, Stephen Carpenter Knowles 2018-04-17 $7,958,000
9727462 Runtime backup of data in a memory module Vincent Nguyen, Binh Q. Nguyen, Raghavan V. Venugopal 2017-08-08 $8,358,000
9064562 Memory module having multiple memory banks selectively connectable to a local memory controller and an external memory controller Raghavan V. Venugopal 2015-06-23 $12,157,000
9052915 Booting a machine using thermal credits to adjust operating speed of a component Walter G. Fry, Rahul V. Lakdawala 2015-06-09 $7,160,000
8602801 Electrical jack J. Scott Sylvester, Ewoud Bonsen 2013-12-10 $26,240,000
6134612 External modular bay for housing I/O devices Larry D. Bailey, Rodman S. Brahman, Peter A. Ojeda, Larry L. Jeffery, Upal Sengupta +5 more 2000-10-17 $59,000
6115815 Boot drive selection and hibernation file detection Philip H. Doragh 2000-09-05 $97,575,000
6108199 Modular portable personal computer having bays to receive interchangeable modules Timothy A. Bonardi, Eric Fuhs, Peter A. Ojeda, Wayne L. Griffin, John P. Wagner +2 more 2000-08-22 $85,000
6058012 Apparatus, method and system for thermal management of an electronic system having semiconductor devices Patrick R. Cooper, Mark S. Tracy, Curtis L. Progl, Minh H. Nguyen 2000-05-02 $71,815,000
6038624 Real-time hardware master/slave re-initialization Fu Hsing Chan, Kamran Khederzadeh 2000-03-14 $103,344,000
5920728 Dynamic hibernation time in a computer system Brian C. Fritz 1999-07-06 $539,286,000
5822582 Boot drive selection and hibernation file detection Philip H. Doragh 1998-10-13 $39,599,000
5822600 Dynamic hibernation time in a computer system Brian C. Fritz 1998-10-13 $39,599,000
5786984 Modular portable personal computer Timothy A. Bonardi, Eric Fuhs, Peter A. Ojeda, Wayne L. Griffin, John P. Wagner +2 more 1998-07-28 $12,000
5761460 Reconfigurable dual master IDE interface Gregory N. Santos, David J. Maguire, James R. Edwards 1998-06-02 $75,603,000
5684382 Control of computer AC adapter output voltage via battery pack feedback Brian C. Fritz, Thomas P. Sawyers, Norman D. Stobert, Robert K. Watts, Michael Schneider 1997-11-04 $487,527,000