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Eric Newman — 7 Patents

IBM: 4 patents #21,783 of 70,183Top 35%
Ford: 3 patents #4,990 of 17,473Top 30%
Overall (All Time): #680,018 of 4,157,543Top 20%
7 Patents All Time
Eric Newman has been granted 7 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1980 and the most recent in April 2010. Eric Newman ranks #680,018 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 16.4%). Patent records list Eric Newman in Eastleigh, MI, GB.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1980 to 2010Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2008.peak 21980: 1 patents19801988: 1 patents19881997: 1 patents19971998: 1 patents19982008: 2 patents20082010: 1 patents2010

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–7 of 7 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7698245 Applying rules to validating data for a machine arrangement Joseph G. Walacavage, Earl Dishaw, James Kenneth McAlpine 2010-04-13 $36,563,000
7433801 Identifying and visualizing faults in PLC-based manufacturing systems Joe Walacavage, James Kenneth McAlpine 2008-10-07 $10,323,000
7346478 Method of embedding tooling control data within mechanical fixture design to enable programmable logic control verification simulation Joe Walacavage, Alan Baumgartner, Scott Kennedy, Shanker Ganti 2008-03-18 $18,482,000
5796540 Method and apparatus for synchronizing the rotations of data storage disks in a plurality of disk storage devices J. Wyn Jones, Stephen P. Legg 1998-08-18 $11,146,000
5598303 Method and apparatus for synchronizing the rotations of data storage disks in a plurality of disk storage devices J. Wyn Jones, Stephen P. Legg 1997-01-28 $23,855,000
4740720 Integrated injection logic output circuit 1988-04-26 $27,326,000
4227175 Data recognition apparatus 1980-10-07 $21,028,000