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Erwin Behnen — 11 Patents

IBM: 11 patents #10,022 of 70,183Top 15%
Austin, TX: #2,975 of 18,064 inventorsTop 20%
Texas: #13,915 of 125,132 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #435,149 of 4,157,543Top 15%
11 Patents All Time
Erwin Behnen has been granted 11 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 2006 and the most recent in August 2021. Erwin Behnen ranks #435,149 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 10.5%). Patent records list Erwin Behnen in Austin, TX, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2006 to 2021Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2018.peak 32006: 1 patents20062007: 1 patents20072018: 3 patents20182019: 2 patents20192020: 1 patents20202021: 3 patents2021

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–11 of 11 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11106850 Flexible constraint-based logic cell placement David Wolpert, Timothy A. Schell, Leon Sigal 2021-08-31 $6,618,000
11055465 Fill techniques for avoiding Boolean DRC failures during cell placement David Wolpert, Timothy A. Schell, Michael S. Gray, Robert M. Averill, III 2021-07-06 $5,313,000
10885260 Fin-based fill cell optimization David Wolpert, Timothy A. Schell, Michael S. Gray, Robert M. Averill, III 2021-01-05 $2,293,000
10699050 Front-end-of-line shape merging cell placement and optimization David Wolpert, Lawrence A. Clevenger, Patrick Watson, Chih-Chao Yang, Timothy A. Schell 2020-06-30 $3,003,000
10248749 Automated attribute propagation and hierarchical consistency checking for non-standard extensions Robert M. Averill, III, David Wolpert 2019-04-02 $2,364,000
10223487 Automated attribute propagation and hierarchical consistency checking for non-standard extensions Robert M. Averill, III, David Wolpert 2019-03-05 $2,050,000
9977851 Automated attribute propagation and hierarchical consistency checking for non-standard extensions Robert M. Averill, III, David Wolpert 2018-05-22 $7,737,000
9971861 Selective boundary overlay insertion for hierarchical circuit design Michael S. Gray, Matthew T. Guzowski, David Wolpert 2018-05-15 $2,944,000
9892222 Automated attribute propagation and hierarchical consistency checking for non-standard extensions Robert M. Averill, III, David Wolpert 2018-02-13 $2,196,000
7225419 Methods for modeling latch transparency Jeffrey P. Soreff, James D. Warnock, Dieter Wendel 2007-05-29 $6,985,000
7080335 Methods for modeling latch transparency Jeffrey P. Soreff, James D. Warnock, Dieter Wendel 2006-07-18 $4,124,000