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Christopher Kline — 12 Patents

IBM: 8 patents #13,181 of 70,183Top 20%
Firestone, CO: #13 of 77 inventorsTop 20%
Colorado: #3,808 of 40,980 inventorsTop 10%
Overall (All Time): #396,045 of 4,157,543Top 10%
12 Patents All Time
Christopher Kline has been granted 12 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 2002 and the most recent in September 2020. Christopher Kline ranks #396,045 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 9.5%). Patent records list Christopher Kline in Firestone, CO, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2002 to 2020Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2002.peak 22002: 2 patents20022004: 1 patents20042006: 1 patents20062007: 2 patents20072010: 1 patents20102012: 1 patents20122014: 1 patents20142016: 2 patents20162020: 1 patents2020

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–12 of 12 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10762448 Method, apparatus and program storage device for scheduling the performance of maintenance tasks to maintain a system environment — 2020-09-01 $3,521,000
9311170 System, method and program tool to reset an application — 2016-04-12 $2,843,000
9268763 Automatic interpretive processing of electronic transaction documents Dayo Esho, Stephen Philp 2016-02-23
8800047 System, method and program product for dynamically performing an audit and security compliance validation in an operating environment Linwood E. Loving 2014-08-05 $3,332,000
8261354 System, method and program product for dynamically performing an audit and security compliance validation in an operating environment Linwood E. Loving 2012-09-04 $6,762,000
7856496 Information gathering tool for systems administration — 2010-12-21 $6,138,000
7302477 Administration tool for gathering information about systems and applications including the feature of high availability — 2007-11-27 $7,635,000
7296273 System, method and program tool to reset an application — 2007-11-13 $7,366,000
7127480 System, method and program for backing up a computer program Chad Lingmann 2006-10-24 $14,060,000
6783460 Method and apparatus for coordinating an interactive computer game with a broadcast television program Tinsley Galyean, Sheri Galyean, Henry Kaufman 2004-08-31
6447396 Method and apparatus for coordinating an interactive computer game with a broadcast television program Tinsley Galyean, Sheri Galyean, Henry Kaufman 2002-09-10
6427588 Device and method for supporting and tensioning a silk screen — 2002-08-06

Frequent Collaborators

Tinsley Galyean2 shared
Henry Kaufman2 shared
Linwood E. Loving2 shared
Sheri Galyean2 shared
Stephen Philp1 shared
Dayo Esho1 shared

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