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John A. Covert — 4 Patents

IBM: 4 patents #21,783 of 70,183Top 35%
Binghamton, NY: #106 of 500 inventorsTop 25%
New York: #31,814 of 115,490 inventorsTop 30%
Overall (All Time): #1,080,739 of 4,157,543Top 30%
4 Patents All Time
John A. Covert has been granted 4 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1993 and the most recent in April 1998. John A. Covert ranks #1,080,739 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 26.0%). Patent records list John A. Covert in Binghamton, NY, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1993 to 1998Bar chart with a peak of 1 patents in 1993.peak 11993: 1 patents19931994: 1 patents19941995: 1 patents19951998: 1 patents1998

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–4 of 4 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
5743004 Method of forming electronic multilayer printed circuit boards or cards Ivan Ivor Chobot, Randy L. Haight, Keith D. Mansfield, Donald W. Miller, Reinaldo Anthony Neira +5 more 1998-04-28 $8,659,000
5473813 Methods of forming electronic multi-layer printed circuit boards and/or cards and electronic packages including said boards or cards Ivan Ivor Chobot, Randy L. Haight, Keith D. Mansfield, Donald W. Miller, Reinaldo Anthony Neira +5 more 1995-12-12 $17,332,000
5363280 Printed circuit board or card thermal mass design Ivan Ivor Chobot, Randy L. Haight, Keith D. Mansfield, Donald W. Miller, Reinaldo Anthony Neira +5 more 1994-11-08 $11,730,000
5214250 Method of reworking circuit panels, and circuit panels reworked thereby Burtran Joe Cayson, Steven A. Duncan, John M. Lauffer, Issa S. Mahmoud, Richard A. Schumacher 1993-05-25 $9,080,000