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Clay E. Williams — 22 Patents

IBM: 18 patents #6,142 of 70,183Top 9%
NVNational Oilwell Varco: 2 patents #125 of 551Top 25%
MEMedshape: 1 patents #9 of 19Top 50%
USAA: 1 patents #1,184 of 1,610Top 75%
Boerne, TX: #13 of 232 inventorsTop 6%
Texas: #6,095 of 125,132 inventorsTop 5%
Overall (All Time): #189,202 of 4,157,543Top 5%
22 Patents All Time
Clay E. Williams has been granted 22 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 2006 and the most recent in September 2025. Clay E. Williams ranks #189,202 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.6%). Patent records list Clay E. Williams in Boerne, TX, US.

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Showing 1–22 of 22 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12423080 Dynamic test publication framework for software development William M. Webb, Bryan J. Osterkamp, Shiloh Huff, Michael L. Edwards 2025-09-23
12203368 Rotary steerable drilling assembly and method Russ Gilleylen, Paul Neil, Aaron Schen 2025-01-21
11879333 Rotary steerable drilling assembly and method Russ Gilleylen, Paul Neil, Aaron Schen 2024-01-23
10537369 Bone anchor device Jeremy Webster Blair 2020-01-21
9891797 System and method for direct manipulation of a triangular distribution of information using a graphical user interface Murray R. Cantor, Paul M. Matchen, Vadakkedathu T. Rajan 2018-02-13 $2,196,000
8914303 System and method for direct manipulation of a triangular distribution of information using a graphical user interface Murray R. Cantor, Paul M. Matchen, Vadakkedathu T. Rajan 2014-12-16 $3,695,000
8881028 Reverse metadata viewing by multiple parties Tamir Klinger, Jacquelyn A. Martino, Paul M. Matchen, Peri L. Tarr, Patrick A. Wagstrom 2014-11-04 $3,955,000
8832673 Non-intrusively adapting existing portfolio optimizer for valuated dependencies Ying Liu, Fan Jing Meng, Dharmashankar Subramanian, Shun Xiang Yang, Xin Zhou 2014-09-09 $5,167,000
8825561 Method and system of determining a prioritized list of users related to a given goal Rachel K. E. Bellamy, Margaret Myers Burnett, Joseph A. Lawrance, Peter K. Malkin, John T. Richards 2014-09-02 $3,373,000
8781869 Determining estimation variance associated with project planning Murray R. Cantor, Sunita Devnani Chulani, Paul M. Matchen, Vadakkedathu T. Rajan, Giuiseppe Valetto +1 more 2014-07-15 $5,287,000
8478627 Method for reducing risk associated with a task Murray R. Cantor, Sunita Chulani, Robert M. Delmonico, Vedakkedathu T. Rajan, Avik Sinha +3 more 2013-07-02 $6,261,000
8448133 Software development, deployment and evolution system, method and program product Peter K. Malkin, Peri L. Tarr 2013-05-21 $6,083,000
8260642 Method and system for scoring and ranking a plurality of relationships in components of socio-technical system Peter C. Bahrs, Murray R. Cantor, Sunita Chulani, Kate Ehrlich, Mary E. Helander +3 more 2012-09-04 $6,762,000
8037000 Systems and methods for automated interpretation of analytic procedures Robert M. Delmonico, Tamir Klinger, Bonnie K. Ray, Padmanabhan Santhanam 2011-10-11 $5,277,000
8024700 Method and system for understanding social organization in a design and development process Murray R. Cantor, Sunita Chulani, Kate Ehrlich, Mary E. Helander, Giuseppe Valetto +1 more 2011-09-20 $5,575,000
7895219 System and method for guided and assisted structuring of unstructured information Steve Abrams, Bard Bloom, Matthew Kaplan, Paul T. Keyser, Douglas N. Kimelman +6 more 2011-02-22 $3,876,000
7890803 Constraint programming for reduction of system test-configuration-matrix complexity Al Chakra, David M. Ogle, Patrick J. O'Sullivan, Cemal Yilmaz 2011-02-15 $3,434,000
7805635 Constraint programming for reduction of system test-configuration-matrix complexity Al Chakra, David M. Ogle, Patrick J. O'Sullivan, Cemal Yilmaz 2010-09-28 $9,053,000
7647528 Problem determination via model-based debugging Cemal Yilmaz 2010-01-12 $8,801,000
7360120 Methods for adaptive problem determination in distributed service-based applications Wim De Pauw 2008-04-15 $8,007,000
7272753 Methods and apparatus for translating application tests for execution with simulation software tools Matthew Kaplan, Amitkumar M. Paradkar 2007-09-18 $6,075,000
7134113 Method and system for generating an optimized suite of test cases 2006-11-07 $5,535,000