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Michael Thomas Wheatley — 15 Patents

IBM: 14 patents #8,031 of 70,183Top 15%
MIMueller International: 1 patents #144 of 196Top 75%
Guntersville, AL: #4 of 70 inventorsTop 6%
Alabama: #378 of 10,951 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #307,048 of 4,157,543Top 8%
15 Patents All Time
Michael Thomas Wheatley has been granted 15 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1988 and the most recent in October 2019. Michael Thomas Wheatley ranks #307,048 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 7.4%). Patent records list Michael Thomas Wheatley in Guntersville, AL, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1988 to 2019Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2001.peak 51988: 1 patents19881990: 1 patents19901991: 1 patents19911996: 1 patents19961998: 1 patents19981999: 1 patents19992000: 3 patents20002001: 5 patents20012019: 1 patents2019

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–15 of 15 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10428966 Hydrant stem coupling with ribs Alan B. Channell 2019-10-01
6332168 Method of, system for, and computer program product for providing a run time subsystem for run time libraries Daniel Edward House, Eric Porter, Robert M. Smith 2001-12-18 $52,171,000
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, Mark David Nicholas, Henry Y. Saade +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, Mark David Nicholas, Henry Y. Saade +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, Mark David Nicholas, Henry Y. Saade +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, Mark David Nicholas, Henry Y. Saade +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, Mark David Nicholas, Henry Y. Saade +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, Mark David Nicholas, Henry Y. Saade +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, Mark David Nicholas, Henry Y. Saade +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, Mark David Nicholas, Henry Y. Saade +4 more 1999-12-14 $24,869,000
5754855 System and method for managing control flow of computer programs executing in a computer system Stephen Miller, Timothy Osborn, Robert M. Smith 1998-05-19 $15,430,000
5581769 Multipurpose program object linkage protocol for upward compatibility among different compilers William David Wallace 1996-12-03 $20,817,000
5062039 Sharing of workspaces in interactive processing using workspace name tables for linking of workspaces James A. Brown 1991-10-29 $24,273,000
4949255 Message interface and method for recursive calling between interpretive and compiled computer processes John Alan Gerth 1990-08-14 $14,475,000
4736321 Communication method between an interactive language processor workspace and external processes James A. Brown, John Alan Gerth 1988-04-05 $28,481,000