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Donna Hardee — 7 Patents

IBM: 7 patents #14,688 of 70,183Top 25%
Raleigh, NC: #1,205 of 6,378 inventorsTop 20%
North Carolina: #7,540 of 45,564 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #680,018 of 4,157,543Top 20%
7 Patents All Time
Donna Hardee has been granted 7 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 2007 and the most recent in January 2016. Donna Hardee ranks #680,018 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 16.4%). Patent records list Donna Hardee in Raleigh, NC, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2007 to 2016Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2012.peak 32007: 2 patents20072008: 1 patents20082012: 3 patents20122016: 1 patents2016

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–7 of 7 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9230881 Heat sink for dissipating a thermal load Jimmy G. Foster, Sr., Don S. Keener, Robert R. Wolford 2016-01-05 $2,535,000
8270621 Automatic generation of audible alert according to ambient sound Christopher J. Hardee, Adam Roberts 2012-09-18 $5,189,000
8230908 Heat sink for dissipating a thermal load Jimmy G. Foster, Sr., Don S. Keener, Robert R. Wolford 2012-07-31 $5,473,000
8228380 Informing a driver or an owner of a vehicle of visible problems detected by outside video sources Christopher J. Hardee, Adam Roberts 2012-07-24 $4,383,000
7347251 Heat sink for distributing a thermal load Jimmy G. Foster, Sr., Don S. Keener, Robert R. Wolford 2008-03-25 $5,860,000
7218517 Cooling apparatus for vertically stacked printed circuit boards Robert R. Wolford, Jimmy G. Foster, Sr., Don S. Keener 2007-05-15 $7,209,000
7195058 Heat sink made from a singly extruded heatpipe Robert R. Wolford, Jimmy G. Foster, Sr., Don S. Keener 2007-03-27 $9,273,000