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Robert C. Frame — 20 Patents

DEDigital Equipment: 9 patents #89 of 2,100Top 5%
CCCompaq Computer: 4 patents #276 of 1,604Top 20%
HP: 3 patents #5,824 of 16,619Top 40%
CTChunghwa Picture Tubes: 2 patents #298 of 907Top 35%
QUQuantum: 1 patents #325 of 703Top 50%
UNUnknown: 1 patents #29,356 of 83,584Top 40%
Lowell, MA: #20 of 739 inventorsTop 3%
Massachusetts: #5,700 of 88,656 inventorsTop 7%
Overall (All Time): #214,803 of 4,157,543Top 6%
20 Patents All Time
Robert C. Frame has been granted 20 US patents while listed as an inventor at Digital Equipment. The first was granted in 1993 and the most recent in October 2023. Robert C. Frame ranks #214,803 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.2%). Patent records list Robert C. Frame in Lowell, MA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1993 to 2023Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 1994.peak 41993: 1 patents19931994: 4 patents1995: 1 patents19951996: 1 patents1997: 1 patents19971999: 1 patents2000: 1 patents20002001: 3 patents2002: 1 patents20022003: 1 patents2004: 1 patents20042005: 1 patents2006: 1 patents20062007: 1 patents2023: 1 patents2023

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–20 of 20 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
D1001676 Retractable lanyard for face masks 2023-10-17
7310222 Flat-panel display mounting system for portable computer Michele Bovio 2007-12-18 $4,440,000
6982702 Portable computer system 2006-01-03 $11,601,000
6838810 Flat-panel display mounting system for portable computer Michele Bovio 2005-01-04 $6,078,000
6778385 Portable computer with removable bottom component housing Daniel V. Forlenza, Jitender Kanjiram, Michele Bovio 2004-08-17 $8,169,000
6618936 Method for configuring a portable computer with a battery housing Michele Bovio 2003-09-16 $12,250,000
6392880 Portable computer with removable bottom component housing Daniel V. Forlenza, Jitender Kanjiram, Michele Bovio 2002-05-21
6224996 Battery housing wall interweave with all of system enclosure to reduce height of portable computer Michele Bovio 2001-05-01 $33,544,000
6216192 Dynamic resource allocation across bus bridges Premanand Sakarda, Mark Sawyer, Richard Hennessy 2001-04-10 $86,285,000
6170020 Reservation and dynamic allocation of resources for sole use of docking peripheral device Stephen R. Blakeney, Scott L. Pirdy 2001-01-02 $407,154,000
6125034 Computer having internally mounted peripheral devices with moveable adapter Michele Bovio, Mark J. Foster, John H. Mallard 2000-09-26
6005368 Charging system for computer with docking station 1999-12-21
5638532 Apparatus and method for accessing SMRAM in a computer based upon a processor employing system management mode Mark J. Foster 1997-06-10 $20,186,000
5544344 Apparatus for caching smram in an intel processor based computer system employing system management mode 1996-08-06 $23,749,000
5454111 Double unequal bus timeout Fernando A. Zayas 1995-09-26 $11,864,000
5349690 Fair arbitration scheme for arbitrating between multiple nodes in a computer system seeking control of a common bus Fernando A. Zayas, Edward A. Gardner 1994-09-20 $20,683,000
5301329 Double unequal bus timeout Fernando A. Zayas 1994-04-05 $4,312,000
5287463 Method and apparatus for transferring information over a common parallel bus using a fixed sequence of bus phase transitions Fernando A. Zayas 1994-02-15 $2,776,000
5278703 Embedded servo banded format for magnetic disks for use with a data processing system Bernardo Rub, John E. DeRoo, Samuel B. Skraly, Anne Solli 1994-01-11 $6,620,000
5182752 Method and apparatus for transferring data between a data bus and a data storage device John E. DeRoo, Ann Solli 1993-01-26 $14,084,000