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David E. Shough — 10 Patents

IBM: 9 patents #11,946 of 70,183Top 20%
El Dorado, CA: #6 of 21 inventorsTop 30%
California: #61,378 of 386,348 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #481,000 of 4,157,543Top 15%
10 Patents All Time
David E. Shough has been granted 10 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 2000 and the most recent in July 2019. David E. Shough ranks #481,000 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 11.6%). Patent records list David E. Shough in El Dorado, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2000 to 2019Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2000.peak 32000: 3 patents20002001: 3 patents20012002: 1 patents20022004: 1 patents20042007: 1 patents20072019: 1 patents2019

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–10 of 10 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10339550 Gamified project management system and method Mahesh C. Rao, Andrew Jay Hoffman, Marcello Rufus Hunter 2019-07-02
7234118 Method and apparatus for setting parameters in a system Terry M. Bleizeffer, Nathan D. Church, Kathryn W. Devine, Virginia W. Hughes, Jr., Barbara J. Kilburn 2007-06-19 $11,844,000
6735767 Installation planning window Terry M. Bleizeffer, Kathryn W. Devine, Virginia W. Hughes, Jr., Barbara J. Kilburn, Joseph Davis Lea, III 2004-05-11 $7,887,000
6467080 Shared, dynamically customizable user documentation Kathryn W. Devine, Virginia W. Hughes, Jr., Barbara J. Kilburn 2002-10-15 $14,907,000
6286137 Method and apparatus of indicating steps in a task which have been completed Terry M. Bleizeffer, Nathan D. Church, Kathryn W. Devine, Virginia W. Hughes, Jr., Barbara J. Kilburn 2001-09-04 $27,475,000
6239800 Method and apparatus for leading a user through a software installation procedure via interaction with displayed graphs Debra Mayhew, Miriam Sarah Powell 2001-05-29 $28,465,000
6182285 Method and apparatus for generating a default list Terry M. Bleizeffer, Nathan D. Church, Kathryn W. Devine, Virginia W. Hughes, Jr., Barbara J. Kilburn 2001-01-30 $13,187,000
6115720 Method and apparatus for performing a health check on a database system Terry M. Bleizeffer, Nathan D. Church, Kathryn W. Devine, Virginia W. Hughes, Jr., Barbara J. Kilburn 2000-09-05 $37,092,000
D429493 Portion of a computer screen with a computer generated icon Terry M. Bleizeffer, Kathryn W. Devine, Virginia W. Hughes, Jr., Barbara J. Kilburn 2000-08-15
6064821 Method and apparatus for polling job status on a mainframe system Nathan D. Church 2000-05-16 $24,852,000

Frequent Collaborators

Barbara J. Kilburn7 shared
Kathryn W. Devine7 shared
Virginia W. Hughes, Jr.7 shared
Terry M. Bleizeffer6 shared
Nathan D. Church5 shared
Marcello Rufus Hunter1 shared

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