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Alan Happ — 8 Patents

IBM: 8 patents #13,181 of 70,183Top 20%
Boynton Beach, FL: #134 of 1,245 inventorsTop 15%
Florida: #6,945 of 67,251 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #600,572 of 4,157,543Top 15%
8 Patents All Time
Alan Happ has been granted 8 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1998 and the most recent in April 2009. Alan Happ ranks #600,572 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 14.4%). Patent records list Alan Happ in Boynton Beach, FL, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1998 to 2009Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2001.peak 21998: 1 patents19981999: 1 patents19992000: 1 patents20002001: 2 patents20012003: 1 patents20032007: 1 patents20072009: 1 patents2009

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–8 of 8 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7525414 Apparatus, system, and method for aurally indicating progress Randal L. Bertram, Andrew Ehrenzeller, Mark E. Molander, Kerry A. Ortega 2009-04-28 $8,592,000
7228495 Method and system for providing an index to linked sites on a web page for individuals with visual disabilities Ravi Shankarnarayan Adapathya, David Frederick Champion, Brad Michael Lawrence, Kevin L. Schultz 2007-06-05 $10,476,000
6561993 Device driver system for minimizing adverse tremor effects during use of pointing devices Ravi Shankarnarayan Adapathya, David Frederick Champion, Brad Michael Lawrence, Kevin L. Schultz 2003-05-13 $15,835,000
6246990 Conversation management in speech recognition interfaces 2001-06-12 $30,235,000
6199043 Conversation management in speech recognition interfaces 2001-03-06 $28,649,000
6020887 Method and apparatus for single scroll bars in graphical windows user interface Keith P. Loring 2000-02-01 $24,099,000
6002400 Method and apparatus for handles to components in graphical windows user interface Keith P. Loring, Peter R. Eastwood 1999-12-14 $24,869,000
5819225 Display indications of speech processing states in speech recognition system Peter R. Eastwood, Alice G. Klein, Daniel Kruse, Maria Milenkovic 1998-10-06 $15,994,000