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John M. Sutton — 11 Patents

IBM: 10 patents #10,925 of 70,183Top 20%
Globalfoundries: 1 patents #2,221 of 4,424Top 55%
South Burlington, VT: #205 of 1,136 inventorsTop 20%
Vermont: #661 of 4,968 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #435,149 of 4,157,543Top 15%
11 Patents All Time
John M. Sutton has been granted 11 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1998 and the most recent in January 2017. John M. Sutton ranks #435,149 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 10.5%). Patent records list John M. Sutton in South Burlington, VT, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1998 to 2017Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2005.peak 31998: 2 patents19982000: 1 patents20002004: 1 patents20042005: 3 patents20052006: 2 patents20062010: 1 patents20102017: 1 patents2017

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–11 of 11 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9553061 Wiring bond pad structures Donald R. Letourneau, Patrick S. Spinney, Leah J. Bagley 2017-01-24 $6,909,000
7661008 Real time clock circuit having an internal clock generator Eric E. Retter 2010-02-09 $5,437,000
7017066 Method, system and synchronization circuit for providing hardware component access to a set of data values without restriction Eric E. Retter 2006-03-21 $6,971,000
6993078 Macroblock coding technique with biasing towards skip macroblock coding Barbara A. Hall, Agnes Y. Ngai, Edward F. Westermann 2006-01-31 $6,009,000
6980598 Programmable vertical filter for video encoding James D. Greenfield, Barbara A. Hall, Agnes Y. Ngai 2005-12-27 $5,960,000
6958953 Real time clock circuit having an internal clock generator Eric E. Retter 2005-10-25 $9,634,000
6941025 Simultaneous vertical spatial filtering and chroma conversion in video images James D. Greenfield, Agnes Y. Ngai, Edward F. Westermann 2005-09-06 $5,379,000
6823015 Macroblock coding using luminance date in analyzing temporal redundancy of picture, biased by chrominance data Barbara A. Hall, Agnes Y. Ngai, Edward F. Westermann 2004-11-23 $4,043,000
6081622 Optimized field-frame prediction error calculation method and apparatus in a scalable MPEG-2 compliant video encoder Jeffery Carr, Agnes Y. Ngai 2000-06-27 $38,700,000
5748240 Optimal array addressing control structure comprising an I-frame only video encoder and a frame difference unit which includes an address counter for addressing memory addresses Jeffery Carr 1998-05-05 $15,329,000
5737020 Adaptive field/frame encoding of discrete cosine transform Barbara A. Hall, Agnes Y. Ngai 1998-04-07 $12,123,000