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Michael Combs — 6 Patents

IBM: 5 patents #18,770 of 70,183Top 30%
Cisco: 1 patents #7,948 of 13,007Top 65%
Santa Clara, CA: #2,690 of 9,301 inventorsTop 30%
California: #94,478 of 386,348 inventorsTop 25%
Overall (All Time): #779,687 of 4,157,543Top 20%
6 Patents All Time
Michael Combs has been granted 6 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1992 and the most recent in September 2025. Michael Combs ranks #779,687 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 18.8%). Patent records list Michael Combs in Santa Clara, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–6 of 6 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12417090 Software development observability platform David Shanley, Mikhael Zharov, Jacob Davis, Matthew Vernon Hanson, Thomas Beardsley Bender +4 more 2025-09-16
7222274 Testing and repair methodology for memories having redundancy Dale B. Grosch, Toshiharu Saitoh, Guy M. Vanzo 2007-05-22 $11,321,000
7010733 Parametric testing for high pin count ASIC Robert W. Bassett, Garrett S Christensen, L. Farnsworth, Pamela S. Gillis 2006-03-07 $6,870,000
6931346 Method and apparatus for reduced pin count package connection verification Donald L. Wheater 2005-08-16 $6,237,000
6724210 Method and apparatus for reduced pin count package connection verification Donald L. Wheater 2004-04-20 $6,170,000
5127011 Per-pin integrated circuit test system having n-bit interface Algirdas J. Gruodis, Dale E. Hoffman, Charles A. Puntar, Kurt Paul Szabo 1992-06-30 $28,972,000