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Eric C. Broockman — 8 Patents

IBM: 8 patents #13,181 of 70,183Top 20%
Raleigh, NC: #1,049 of 6,378 inventorsTop 20%
North Carolina: #6,637 of 45,564 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #600,572 of 4,157,543Top 15%
8 Patents All Time
Eric C. Broockman has been granted 8 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1985 and the most recent in October 2002. Eric C. Broockman ranks #600,572 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 14.4%). Patent records list Eric C. Broockman in Raleigh, NC, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1985 to 2002Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 1986.peak 21985: 1 patents19851986: 2 patents19861987: 1 patents19871988: 2 patents19881989: 1 patents19892002: 1 patents2002

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–8 of 8 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
6463064 Method and apparatus interconnection of local area networks with wide area networks David Bryant, Lap T. Huynh, Joseph L. McKinnon 2002-10-08 $10,352,000
4800256 Halographic scanner having adjustable sampling rate Robert Thomas Cato, William D. Gregory, George J. Laurer 1989-01-24 $28,360,000
4728789 System for adjusting holographic scanner lockout voltage Robert Thomas Cato, George J. Laurer 1988-03-01 $29,571,000
4717818 Bar code label identification circuit Olen L. Stokes 1988-01-05 $34,804,000
4713785 Method of inhibiting processing of duplicative coded label signals Douglas C. Antonelli, Patricia M. Branscomb, LeRoy Dickson, Caralee P. Koppel, Richard Ossowski +1 more 1987-12-15 $40,185,000
4591236 Optical scanner with beam directing holograms at window Robert S. Fortenberry 1986-05-27 $19,603,000
4591242 Optical scanner having multiple, simultaneous scan lines with different focal lengths Robert Thomas Cato, LeRoy Dickson 1986-05-27 $19,603,000
4499608 Terminal device having closed chamber communications between functional units Robert Thomas Cato, Robert Carlton Lynch 1985-02-12 $19,759,000