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James Lee Combs — 27 Patents

IBM: 20 patents #5,465 of 70,183Top 8%
LILexmark International: 7 patents #414 of 1,618Top 30%
Lexington, KY: #63 of 2,526 inventorsTop 3%
Kentucky: #253 of 11,577 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #142,059 of 4,157,543Top 4%
27 Patents All Time
James Lee Combs has been granted 27 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1996 and the most recent in September 2016. James Lee Combs ranks #142,059 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.4%). Patent records list James Lee Combs in Lexington, KY, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1996 to 2016Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 1996.peak 51996: 5 patents19961997: 3 patents1998: 4 patents19981999: 4 patents2000: 1 patents20002001: 1 patents2003: 1 patents20032004: 1 patents2006: 1 patents20062009: 2 patents2010: 2 patents20102011: 1 patents2016: 1 patents2016

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 27 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9451111 Method of determining a media class in an imaging device using an optical translucence sensor Ryan Bradley, Niko Jay Murrell, Franklin Joseph Palumbo, Daniel Steinberg, Julie Ann Gordon Whitney 2016-09-20 $2,784,000
7908414 Detecting by USB client device a connection to host USB device wherein power is not supply from host USB device to USB client device David Allen Crutchfield 2011-03-15 $7,642,000
7771057 Peripheral with projection display William Henry Reed, Maini Williams 2010-08-10 $8,408,000
7724237 Handheld printing devices and systems adapted to receive radio signal information indicative of a position and methods for using the same William Henry Reed 2010-05-25 $7,293,000
7628623 Memory card bezel for an apparatus Gary Lee Noe, William Henry Reed 2009-12-08 $6,883,000
7621684 Integrated home entertainment unit Mary E. Ellison Biddle, Monty L. Fransis, Jack L. Gentry, Jr., William C. McCornack 2009-11-24 $10,759,000
7151949 Wireless facsimile adapter and system for printer and all-in-one devices and methods using the same Barry R. Cavill, Francis Foldes, Jr., William Henry Reed, John Dennis Zbrozek 2006-12-19 $14,190,000
6756965 Input device having two joysticks and touchpad with default template James Alan Strothmann 2004-06-29 $8,425,000
6564383 Method and system for interactively capturing organizing and presenting information generated from television programs to viewers William W. Vetter 2003-05-13 $15,835,000
6173358 Computer system having dual bus architecture with audio/video/CD drive controller/coprocessor having integral bus arbitrator 2001-01-09 $40,580,000
6122716 System and method for authenticating a computer memory 2000-09-19 $39,208,000
5925129 Desktop computer system having compressed suspend to hardfile Dwayne T. Crump, Steven T. Pancoast 1999-07-20 $27,822,000
5909211 Touch pad overlay driven computer system Herman Rodriguez, James Alan Strothmann 1999-06-01 $35,326,000
5905900 Mobile client computer and power management architecture Jeffrey Alan Craig, Brent A. Miller 1999-05-18 $41,093,000
5875311 Computer system with touchpad support in operating system Randal L. Bertram 1999-02-23 $8,993,000
5805138 Gross motion input controller for a computer system Nicholas Brawne, Elizabeth Bauer-Nilsen Sanders, James Alan Strothmann 1998-09-08 $9,023,000
5802544 Addressing multiple removable memory modules by remapping slot addresses Herman Rodriguez, James Alan Strothmann, James R. Thomas 1998-09-01 $8,247,000
5765197 Method and system for authentication of a memory unit for a computer system 1998-06-09 $6,285,000
5761698 Computer system having audio/video/CD drive controller/coprocessor having integral memory interface, graphics coprocessor, digital signal processor, compact disk controller, and video controller 1998-06-02 $5,806,000
5681220 Keyboard touchpad combination in a bivalve enclosure Randal L. Bertram, Gerald Joseph Capaci 1997-10-28 $23,423,000
5666516 Protected programmable memory cartridge having selective access circuitry 1997-09-09 $15,735,000
5613137 Computer system with touchpad support in operating system Randal L. Bertram 1997-03-18 $9,376,000
5577220 Method for saving and restoring the state of a CPU executing code in protected mode including estimating the value of the page table base register Dwayne T. Crump, Steven T. Pancoast 1996-11-19 $22,825,000
5548763 Desk top computer system having multi-level power management Dwayne T. Crump, Steven T. Pancoast 1996-08-20 $9,974,000
5513359 Desktop computer having a single-switch suspend/resume function Michael W. Clark, Dwayne T. Crump, Jerry T. Kozel, Steven T. Pancoast 1996-04-30 $14,964,000