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Harmen Van As — 10 Patents

IBM: 10 patents #10,925 of 70,183Top 20%
Thalwil, CH: #77 of 384 inventorsTop 25%
Overall (All Time): #481,000 of 4,157,543Top 15%
10 Patents All Time
Harmen Van As has been granted 10 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1989 and the most recent in April 2003. Harmen Van As ranks #481,000 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 11.6%). Patent records list Harmen Van As in Thalwil, CH.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1989 to 2003Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 1994.peak 21989: 1 patents19891993: 1 patents19931994: 2 patents19941996: 1 patents19961997: 1 patents19971998: 2 patents19981999: 1 patents19992003: 1 patents2003

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–10 of 10 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
6556593 Digital cross connect and add/drop multiplexing device for SDH or SONET signals Andreas Herkersdorf, Wolfram Lemppenau 2003-04-29 $13,645,000
5901140 Selective congestion control mechanism for information networks Hans Rudolf Schindler 1999-05-04 $26,914,000
5768258 Selective congestion control mechanism for information networks Hans Rudolf Schindler 1998-06-16 $7,430,000
5764392 Access control system for a multi-channel transmission ring Hans Rudolf Schindler 1998-06-09 $6,285,000
5636164 Gate array for accelerating access to a random access memory Hans Rudolf Schindler, Wolfram Lemppenau 1997-06-03 $12,468,000
5515265 Apparatus for determining the optimal value of a control parameter Hans Rudolf Schindler, Wolfram Lemppenau 1996-05-07 $18,293,000
5327428 Collision-free insertion and removal of circuit-switched channels in a packet-switched transmission structure Wolfram Lemppenau, Erwin A. Zurfluh 1994-07-05 $10,877,000
5276682 Medium access technique for LAN systems Wolfram Lemppenau 1994-01-04 $5,325,000
5214649 Insert/remove signalling in LAN systems Wolfram Lemppenau, Erwin A. Zurfluh 1993-05-25 $9,080,000
4843606 Local area communication system for integrated services based on a token-ring transmission medium Werner Bux, Felix H. Closs, Johann Mueller, Pitro A. Zafiropulo 1989-06-27 $15,584,000