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Christopher Crone — 10 Patents

IBM: 10 patents #10,925 of 70,183Top 20%
San Jose, CA: #6,421 of 32,062 inventorsTop 25%
California: #61,378 of 386,348 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #481,000 of 4,157,543Top 15%
10 Patents All Time
Christopher Crone has been granted 10 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 2001 and the most recent in March 2021. Christopher Crone ranks #481,000 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 11.6%). Patent records list Christopher Crone in San Jose, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2001 to 2021Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2010.peak 22001: 1 patents20012003: 1 patents20032004: 1 patents20042007: 1 patents20072009: 1 patents20092010: 2 patents20102011: 1 patents20112018: 1 patents20182021: 1 patents2021

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–10 of 10 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10936625 Progressive optimization for implicit cast predicates Terence P. Purcell, Thomas A. Beavin, Andrei F. Lurie 2021-03-02 $2,720,000
10089379 Method for sorting data Hong Min, Yefim Shuf, Hubertus Franke, Allan B. Lebovitz, Akiko Hoshikawa 2018-10-02 $3,730,000
8069193 Method and system for utilizing a generic scalar function to allow a column function to operate on row data Jason Alexander Cu, Andrei F. Lurie 2011-11-29 $48,840,000
7711730 Method of returning data during insert statement processing Margaret Bernal, Karelle Lynne Cornwell, Hsuiying Cheng, Yao-Ching Chen, Fen-Ling Lin +3 more 2010-05-04 $4,679,000
7685214 Order-preserving encoding formats of floating-point decimal numbers for efficient value comparison Yao-Ching Chen, Michael F. Cowlishaw, Fung Fung Lee, Ronald M. Smith, Sr., Guogen Zhang +1 more 2010-03-23 $4,775,000
7516138 Method for optimized parameter binding Margaret Bernal, Andrei F. Lurie, Daya Vivek 2009-04-07 $6,511,000
7231385 Method, system, and program for positioning a cursor on rows of a result table Margaret Bernal, Claire McFeely, Kalpana Shyam, Julie Ann Watts 2007-06-12 $7,786,000
6694305 Method, system, and program for processing modifications to data in tables in a database system Margaret Bernal, San Yu Phoenix, Kalpana Shyam, James Zu-Chia Teng, Julie Ann Watts 2004-02-17 $14,035,000
6598041 Method, system, and program for processing modifications to data in tables in a database system Margaret Bernal, Paramesh S. Desai, Georgia C. Fuller, Peter Hoa, Eric N. Katayama +4 more 2003-07-22 $10,485,000
6249783 Method and apparatus for efficiently executing built-in functions Patrick M. Malone, Jeffrey Ralph Ruggles 2001-06-19 $38,179,000