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David Bruton — 4 Patents

IBM: 3 patents #26,335 of 70,183Top 40%
LCLevel 3 Communications: 1 patents #856 of 1,318Top 65%
Raleigh, NC: #1,922 of 6,378 inventorsTop 35%
North Carolina: #12,022 of 45,564 inventorsTop 30%
Overall (All Time): #1,080,739 of 4,157,543Top 30%
4 Patents All Time
David Bruton has been granted 4 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 2006 and the most recent in March 2014. David Bruton ranks #1,080,739 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 26.0%). Patent records list David Bruton in Raleigh, NC, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2006 to 2014Bar chart with a peak of 1 patents in 2006.peak 12006: 1 patents20062007: 1 patents20072010: 1 patents20102014: 1 patents2014

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–4 of 4 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8668406 Subsea cable installation Ronald J. Vidal, Paul Alexander, Robert M. Kelly, Robert Todd 2014-03-11 $62,981,000
7702785 Methods, systems and computer program products for selectively allowing users of a multi-user system access to network resources Linwood H. Overby, Jr., Adolfo Francisco Rodriguez 2010-04-20 $4,962,000
7222366 Intrusion event filtering Patricia Jakubik, Patrick Michael LiVecchi, Linwood H. Overby, Jr. 2007-05-22 $11,321,000
7076803 Integrated intrusion detection services Patricia Jakubik, Patrick Michael LiVecchi, Linwood H. Overby, Jr. 2006-07-11 $5,175,000