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Michael Sheets — 8 Patents

Cypress Semiconductor: 7 patents #280 of 1,866Top 20%
IBM: 1 patents #44,878 of 70,183Top 65%
Castle Rock, CO: #67 of 429 inventorsTop 20%
Colorado: #5,915 of 40,980 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #600,572 of 4,157,543Top 15%
8 Patents All Time
Michael Sheets has been granted 8 US patents while listed as an inventor at Cypress Semiconductor. The first was granted in 1994 and the most recent in March 2016. Michael Sheets ranks #600,572 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 14.4%). Patent records list Michael Sheets in Castle Rock, CO, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1994 to 2016Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2013.peak 21994: 1 patents19942012: 1 patents20122013: 2 patents20132014: 2 patents20142015: 1 patents20152016: 1 patents2016

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–8 of 8 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9298531 Watchdog timer with mode dependent time out David G. Wright 2016-03-29 $5,372,000
8977911 Watchdog timer with mode dependent time out David G. Wright 2015-03-10 $6,197,000
8832475 Programmable power mode sequencer 2014-09-09 $3,708,000
8705309 State-monitoring memory element Timothy Williams 2014-04-22 $3,629,000
8462576 State-monitoring memory element Timothy Williams 2013-06-11 $3,278,000
8375258 Watchdog timer with mode dependent time out David G. Wright 2013-02-12 $4,185,000
8111577 System comprising a state-monitoring memory element Timothy Williams 2012-02-07 $2,573,000
5291599 Dispatcher switch for a partitioner Edward Cohen 1994-03-01 $8,706,000