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John Fred Davis — 9 Patents

IBM: 7 patents #14,688 of 70,183Top 25%
PSPhysical Sciences: 2 patents #31 of 131Top 25%
Alexandria, VA: #142 of 1,823 inventorsTop 8%
Virginia: #3,423 of 34,511 inventorsTop 10%
Overall (All Time): #535,341 of 4,157,543Top 15%
9 Patents All Time
John Fred Davis has been granted 9 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1998 and the most recent in July 2013. John Fred Davis ranks #535,341 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 12.9%). Patent records list John Fred Davis in Alexandria, VA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1998 to 2013Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2012.peak 21998: 1 patents19981999: 1 patents19992009: 1 patents20092010: 1 patents20102011: 1 patents20112012: 2 patents20122013: 2 patents2013

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–9 of 9 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8478831 System, method and program to limit rate of transferring messages from suspected spammers Kevin D. Himberger, Clark Debs Jeffries, Garreth Jeremiah 2013-07-02 $6,261,000
8468208 System, method and computer program to block spam Kevin D. Himberger, Clark Debs Jeffries, Garreth Jeremiah 2013-06-18 $7,677,000
8253531 On chip verification and consequent enablement of card OS operation in smart cards Sheldon M. Osborne, Frederick I. Reed, III, Wei Kai Xie 2012-08-28 $8,752,000
8176126 System, method and program to limit rate of transferring messages from suspected spammers Kevin D. Himberger, Clark Debs Jeffries, Garreth Jeremiah 2012-05-08 $8,171,000
7930740 System and method for detection and mitigation of distributed denial of service attacks Kevin D. Himberger, Clark Debs Jeffries, Mohammad Peyravian 2011-04-19 $4,236,000
7711781 Technique for detecting and blocking unwanted instant messages Kevin D. Himberger, Clark Debs Jeffries, Mohammad Peyravian 2010-05-04 $4,679,000
7617526 Blocking of spam e-mail at a firewall Kevin D. Himberger, Clark Debs Jeffries, Garreth Jeremiah 2009-11-10 $10,417,000
5973289 Microwave-driven plasma spraying apparatus and method for spraying Michael Read, Michael Matthew Micci 1999-10-26
5793013 Microwave-driven plasma spraying apparatus and method for spraying Michael Read, Michael Matthew Micci 1998-08-11