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Mark David Nicholas — 8 Patents

IBM: 8 patents #13,181 of 70,183Top 20%
Georgetown, KY: #52 of 281 inventorsTop 20%
Kentucky: #1,428 of 11,577 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #600,572 of 4,157,543Top 15%
8 Patents All Time
Mark David Nicholas has been granted 8 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1999 and the most recent in May 2001. Mark David Nicholas ranks #600,572 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 14.4%). Patent records list Mark David Nicholas in Georgetown, KY, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1999 to 2001Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2001.peak 41999: 1 patents19992000: 3 patents20002001: 4 patents2001

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–8 of 8 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
6237140 Compiler-assisted or interpreter-assisted windowing solution to the year 2000 problem for computer programs William Augustus Carter, Alan Roeder Elderon, Timothy David Magee, Henry Y. Saade, Grant Sutherland +4 more 2001-05-22 $28,959,000
6233728 Compiler-assisted or interpreter-assisted solution to the year 2000 problem with debugging option for computer programs William Augustus Carter, Alan Roeder Elderon, Timothy David Magee, Henry Y. Saade, Grant Sutherland +4 more 2001-05-15 $34,251,000
6226791 Compiler-assisted or interpreter-assisted compression solution to the year 2000 problem for computer programs William Augustus Carter, Alan Roeder Elderon, Timothy David Magee, Henry Y. Saade, Grant Sutherland +4 more 2001-05-01 $28,625,000
6185571 Compiler-assisted or interpreter-assisted solution to the year 2000 problem with flagging option for computer programs William Augustus Carter, Alan Roeder Elderon, Timothy David Magee, Henry Y. Saade, Grant Sutherland +4 more 2001-02-06 $23,051,000
6081655 Compiler-assisted or interpreter-assisted expansion solution to the year 2000 problem for computer programs William Augustus Carter, Alan Roeder Elderon, Timothy David Magee, Henry Y. Saade, Grant Sutherland +4 more 2000-06-27 $38,700,000
6078734 Compiler-assisted solution to the year 2000 problem for computer programs William Augustus Carter, Alan Roeder Elderon, Timothy David Magee, Henry Y. Saade, Grant Sutherland +4 more 2000-06-20 $29,799,000
6064817 Compiler-assisted or interpreter-assisted solution to the year 2000 problem for computer programs William Augustus Carter, Alan Roeder Elderon, Timothy David Magee, Henry Y. Saade, Grant Sutherland +4 more 2000-05-16 $24,852,000
6002873 Compiler-assisted or interpreter-assisted windowing solution to the year 2000 problem for computer programs William Augustus Carter, Alan Roeder Elderon, Timothy David Magee, Henry Y. Saade, Grant Sutherland +4 more 1999-12-14 $24,869,000