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Michael L. Williams — 7 Patents

IBM: 4 patents #21,783 of 70,183Top 35%
RTX (Raytheon): 3 patents #3,886 of 15,912Top 25%
Seabrook, TX: #44 of 291 inventorsTop 20%
Texas: #21,608 of 125,132 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #680,018 of 4,157,543Top 20%
7 Patents All Time
Michael L. Williams has been granted 7 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 2002 and the most recent in June 2013. Michael L. Williams ranks #680,018 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 16.4%). Patent records list Michael L. Williams in Seabrook, TX, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2002 to 2013Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2002.peak 22002: 2 patents20022010: 1 patents20102011: 2 patents20112013: 2 patents2013

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–7 of 7 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8468246 System and method for allocating resources in a distributed computing system James J. Mays, Michael L. Forsman 2013-06-18 $6,593,000
8442873 Order processing system, method and program product Douglas N. Breaux, Michael F. Cipriani, Richard C. Jaworski, Steven L. Martin 2013-05-14 $10,375,000
8005956 System for allocating resources in a distributed computing system Michael L. Forsman, James J. Mays 2011-08-23 $5,681,000
7912956 Service level agreement based control of a distributed computing system Michael L. Forsman, Michael W. Smith 2011-03-22 $8,424,000
7853646 Assured validation for facade method invocations Amanda Black, Steven L. Martin, Christopher I. Schmidt 2010-12-14 $5,212,000
6499053 Master/slave architecture for a distributed chat application in a bandwidth constrained network Brian Marquette, Mark B. Stevens, John D. Wilson 2002-12-24 $23,154,000
6438548 Method of and system for managing documents in a bandwidth constrained environment Clifton E. Grim, III, Brian Marquette, Christopher B. Plock, Mark B. Stevens, John D. Wilson 2002-08-20 $9,830,000