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Gary Johnston — 14 Patents

IBM: 8 patents #13,181 of 70,183Top 20%
WEWeatherford/Lamb: 5 patents #137 of 852Top 20%
Morrisville, NC: #126 of 952 inventorsTop 15%
North Carolina: #3,601 of 45,564 inventorsTop 8%
Overall (All Time): #332,869 of 4,157,543Top 9%
14 Patents All Time
Gary Johnston has been granted 14 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1985 and the most recent in May 2018. Gary Johnston ranks #332,869 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 8.0%). Patent records list Gary Johnston in Morrisville, NC, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1985 to 2018Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2001.peak 41985: 1 patents19852001: 4 patents20012006: 1 patents20062007: 2 patents20072009: 1 patents20092011: 2 patents20112017: 2 patents20172018: 1 patents2018

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–14 of 14 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9971596 Extensible change set conflict and merge gap detection Ian Green, Adam R. Neal, Dominic H. Tulley 2018-05-15 $2,944,000
9772842 Managing change sets Adam R. Neal, Vishwanath Ramaswamy 2017-09-26 $3,108,000
9720688 Extensible change set conflict and merge gap detection Ian Green, Adam R. Neal, Dominic H. Tulley 2017-08-01 $1,638,000
8006771 Methods for expanding tubular strings and isolating subterranean zones Annabel Green, Lev Ring, Colin McHardy, Simon J. Harrall, Neil A. A. Simpson 2011-08-30 $46,990,000
7908588 Program presentation with reviewer feedback maintenance David P. Charboneau, Hirotaka Matsumoto, Takashi Sakairi, Kotaro Shima 2011-03-15 $6,222,000
7543637 Methods for expanding tubular strings and isolating subterranean zones Annabel Green, Lev Ring, Colin McHardy, Simon J. Harrall, Neil A. A. Simpson 2009-06-09 $140,193,000
7308944 Expander tool for use in a wellbore Wayne Rudd, David Hillis, Gary Pendleton, Kevin Scott 2007-12-18 $77,790,000
7275602 Methods for expanding tubular strings and isolating subterranean zones Annabel Green, Lev Ring, Colin McHardy, Simon J. Harrall, Neil A. A. Simpson 2007-10-02 $155,812,000
7017669 Methods and apparatus for expanding tubulars Ian Cameron, David Hillis 2006-03-28 $27,716,000
6212675 Presentation of visual program test coverage information Mila Keren, Anthony Hayden Lindsey, Yael Shaham-Gafni 2001-04-03 $36,356,000
6199199 Presentation of visual program performance data Mila Keren, Anthony Hayden Lindsey, Yael Shaham-Gafni 2001-03-06 $28,649,000
6192511 Technique for test coverage of visual programs Mila Keren, Anthony Hayden Lindsey, Yael Shaham-Gafni 2001-02-20 $23,750,000
6189142 Visual program runtime performance analysis Mila Keren, Anthony Hayden Lindsey, Yael Shaham-Gafni 2001-02-13 $30,258,000
4534635 Method and apparatus for conveying a flexible, imperforate member through a fluid Leonard A. Ciupak 1985-08-13