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Frank L. Jania — 63 Patents

IBM: 54 patents #1,525 of 70,183Top 3%
Microsoft: 7 patents #6,431 of 40,388Top 20%
Google: 2 patents #10,599 of 22,993Top 50%
Chapel Hill, NC: #32 of 1,999 inventorsTop 2%
North Carolina: #382 of 45,564 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #35,470 of 4,157,543Top 1%
63 Patents All Time
Frank L. Jania has been granted 63 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 2008 and the most recent in July 2024. Frank L. Jania ranks #35,470 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.85%). Patent records list Frank L. Jania in Chapel Hill, NC, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2008 to 2024Bar chart with a peak of 12 patents in 2012.peak 122008: 1 patents20082009: 3 patents2010: 6 patents20102011: 7 patents2012: 12 patents20122013: 8 patents2014: 11 patents20142015: 5 patents2016: 5 patents20162017: 1 patents2020: 1 patents20202021: 1 patents2023: 1 patents20232024: 1 patents2024

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 63 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12039254 Enhancing data in a screenshot Lawrence M. Wright 2024-07-16 $23,207,000
11665115 Interlacing responses within an instant messaging system Michael N. Abernethy, Jr., Travis M. Grigsby 2023-05-30 $4,328,000
11068829 Ambient project management Charles W. Cross, Jr., Brian D. Goodman, Darren M. Shaw 2021-07-20 $5,541,000
10558949 User-configured alternate email rendering Andrew L. Schirmer 2020-02-11 $2,410,000
9558473 Collaborative contact management Martin T. Moore, Brian D. Goodman, James Kebinger 2017-01-31 $3,813,000
9514442 Interlacing responses within an instant messaging system Michael N. Abernethy, Jr., Travis M. Grigsby 2016-12-06 $2,582,000
9483750 Location independent communication in a virtual world Ruthie D. Lyle 2016-11-01 $3,150,000
9453736 Preventative traffic congestion social networking improvement system within a community Travis M. Grigsby, Lisa Seacat DeLuca 2016-09-27 $4,099,000
9251259 Harmonizing webpage information Lisa Seacat DeLuca 2016-02-02 $1,325,000
9245182 Enhancing data in a screenshot Lawrence M. Wright 2016-01-26 $2,109,000
9135594 Ambient project management Charles W. Cross, Jr., Brian D. Goodman, Darren M. Shaw 2015-09-15 $3,796,000
9123337 Indexing digitized speech with words represented in the digitized speech Charles W. Cross, Jr. 2015-09-01 $13,729,000
9106745 Voice response unit harvesting Travis M. Grigsby, Steven M. Miller, Lisa Seacat DeLuca 2015-08-11 $2,160,000
9020963 Providing relevant assets in collaboration mediums Brian D. Goodman, Darren M. Shaw 2015-04-28 $3,749,000
9003300 Voice response unit proxy utilizing dynamic web interaction Lisa Seacat DeLuca, Travis M. Grigsby, Steven M. Miller 2015-04-07 $3,806,000
8838557 Automated viewable selectable change history manipulation Kulvir S. Bhogal, Lisa Seacat DeLuca, Travis M. Grigsby 2014-09-16 $3,547,000
8751955 Scrollbar user interface for multitouch devices Lisa Seacat DeLuca, Travis M. Grigsby 2014-06-10 $4,765,000
8713423 Automated dynamic differential data processing 2014-04-29 $5,775,000
8712675 Preventative traffic congestion social networking improvement system within a community Travis M. Grigsby, Lisa A. Seacat 2014-04-29 $5,775,000
8706490 Indexing digitized speech with words represented in the digitized speech Charles W. Cross, Jr. 2014-04-22 $4,765,000
8693990 System, method, and apparatus for proximity-based authentication for managing personal data Michael D. Facemire, Tracy L. Rankin, Michael C. Wanderski 2014-04-08 $7,562,000
8693988 System, method, and apparatus for proximity-based authentication for managing personal data Michael D. Facemire, Tracy L. Rankin, Michael C. Wanderski 2014-04-08 $7,562,000
8670987 Automatic speech recognition with dynamic grammar rules Vladimir Bergl, Charles W. Cross, Jr. 2014-03-11 $13,394,000
8660409 Predictive personal video recorder operation Lisa Seacat DeLuca, Timothy J. Eby, Travis M. Grigsby 2014-02-25 $6,334,000
8640046 Jump scrolling Gabriel A. Cohen 2014-01-28 $42,603,000