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William Ryan — 8 Patents

CTConfinement Telephony Technology: 3 patents #15 of 29Top 55%
AEArris Enterprises: 2 patents #492 of 1,262Top 40%
Motorola: 1 patents #10,010 of 14,142Top 75%
Lynchburg, VA: #56 of 554 inventorsTop 15%
Virginia: #3,883 of 34,511 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #600,572 of 4,157,543Top 15%
8 Patents All Time
William Ryan has been granted 8 US patents while listed as an inventor at Confinement Telephony Technology. The first was granted in 2002 and the most recent in September 2024. William Ryan ranks #600,572 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 14.4%). Patent records list William Ryan in Lynchburg, VA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2002 to 2024Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2011.peak 22002: 1 patents20022007: 1 patents20072011: 2 patents20112013: 1 patents20132014: 1 patents20142024: 2 patents2024

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–8 of 8 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12100006 Previous source input return Cesar Moreno, Navneeth N. Kannan 2024-09-24
11990030 Audio tone assisted RCU programming Cesar Moreno, Navneeth N. Kannan 2024-05-21
8654956 Method and apparatus for treating potentially unauthorized calls Wesley Larry Apple, Charles David Orr, Timothy Edwin Pabon, John Vincent Townsend, III 2014-02-18
8543732 Method and apparatus for multiplexing internet domain names 2013-09-24
8064580 Telephony system and method with improved fraud control Wesley Larry Apple, Timothy Edwin Pabon, Kenneth Jay Gumbiner 2011-11-22
8050393 Method and apparatus for evaluating possible 3-way call events Wesley Larry Apple, Sam Burris Clanton, III, Timothy Edwin Pabon, John Vincent Townsend, III 2011-11-01
7277392 Method and apparatus for managing the usage of data link resources Chris Venteicher, Lawrence A. Willis 2007-10-02 $20,003,000
6412014 Internet directory based upon names related to domain names 2002-06-25