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Gerald M. Heiling — 7 Patents

IBM: 7 patents #14,688 of 70,183Top 25%
Pine Island, MN: #26 of 75 inventorsTop 35%
Minnesota: #10,472 of 52,454 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #680,018 of 4,157,543Top 20%
7 Patents All Time
Gerald M. Heiling has been granted 7 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1980 and the most recent in August 1992. Gerald M. Heiling ranks #680,018 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 16.4%). Patent records list Gerald M. Heiling in Pine Island, MN, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1980 to 1992Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 1991.peak 21980: 1 patents19801981: 1 patents19811989: 1 patents19891990: 1 patents19901991: 2 patents19911992: 1 patents1992

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–7 of 7 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
5136410 Optical fiber link control safety system David A. Knodel, Michael Peterson, Brian Andrew Schuelke, David W. Siljenberg, Ronald L. Soderstrom +1 more 1992-08-04 $10,228,000
5069522 Optical fiber link card Timothy R. Block, Marcia B. Ebler, Ladd W. Freitag, Spencer C. Holter, Dennis L. Karst +3 more 1991-12-03 $29,548,000
5039194 Optical fiber link card Timothy R. Block, Marcia B. Ebler, Ladd W. Freitag, Spencer C. Holter, Dennis L. Karst +3 more 1991-08-13 $15,056,000
4917453 Optical communication signal source Timothy R. Block, Dennis L. Karst, David C. Kobliska, Tong Lu, Ronald L. Soderstrom 1990-04-17 $15,126,000
4850044 Serial optical interconnect bus for logic cards and the like Timothy R. Block, Ronald L. Soderstrom, Charles J. Rocca 1989-07-18 $10,899,000
4305080 Compensating driver circuit for thermal print head Earl A. Cunningham, David E. Cutshall, Ronald L. Soderstrom, James M. Thompson 1981-12-08 $10,709,000
4184063 Thermal printer write head assembly LaVerne F. Knappe, John Regehr 1980-01-15 $31,922,000