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John Gaffney — 6 Patents

IBM: 2 patents #32,909 of 70,183Top 50%
ECEvans & Sutherland Computer: 1 patents #40 of 83Top 50%
Adobe: 1 patents #2,568 of 4,589Top 60%
Bethesda, MD: #395 of 2,269 inventorsTop 20%
Maryland: #5,557 of 35,612 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #779,687 of 4,157,543Top 20%
6 Patents All Time
John Gaffney has been granted 6 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1981 and the most recent in May 2012. John Gaffney ranks #779,687 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 18.8%). Patent records list John Gaffney in Bethesda, MD, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1981 to 2012Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 1985.peak 21981: 1 patents19811985: 2 patents19852002: 1 patents20022011: 1 patents20112012: 1 patents2012

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–6 of 6 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8171015 Optimizing, distributing, and tracking online content Greg Jarboe, Dana Todd, Steve Press, Mike Zemans, Jamie O'Donnell +2 more 2012-05-01
7970754 Optimizing, distributing, and tracking online content Greg Jarboe, Dana Todd, Steve Press, Mike Zemans, Jamie O'Donnell +2 more 2011-06-28
6441919 Integrated rendering and compositing in variable printing Michael Parker 2002-08-27 $35,537,000
4562305 Software cryptographic apparatus and method 1985-12-31 $22,280,000
4539638 Command language system for interactive computer 1985-09-03 $1,892,000
4262331 Self-adaptive computer load control Joseph W. Freeland, Irwin L. Isert 1981-04-14 $10,828,000