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Michael W. Dotson — 6 Patents

IBM: 6 patents #16,491 of 70,183Top 25%
Binghamton, NY: #68 of 500 inventorsTop 15%
New York: #23,374 of 115,490 inventorsTop 25%
Overall (All Time): #779,687 of 4,157,543Top 20%
6 Patents All Time
Michael W. Dotson has been granted 6 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1998 and the most recent in September 2011. Michael W. Dotson ranks #779,687 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 18.8%). Patent records list Michael W. Dotson in Binghamton, NY, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1998 to 2011Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2011.peak 21998: 1 patents19981999: 1 patents19992001: 1 patents20012007: 1 patents20072011: 2 patents2011

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–6 of 6 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8020134 Method and apparatus for parallel processing of semiconductor chip designs Anthony DeGroff Drumm, Dazhuang J. Ma, Ruchir Puri, Louise H. Trevillyan 2011-09-13 $4,804,000
7934188 Legalization of VLSI circuit placement with blockages using hierarchical row slicing Charles J. Alpert, Gi-Joon Nam, Shyam Ramji, Natarajan Viswanathan 2011-04-26 $6,102,000
7203916 System, method and program product for positioning I/O pads on a chip Matthew D. Wise 2007-04-10 $7,482,000
6263374 Apparatus for coupling a bus-based architecture to a switch network Howard Thomas Olnowich, James William Feeney, Michael Hans Fisher, John D. Jabusch, Robert Francis Lusch +1 more 2001-07-17 $23,321,000
5922063 Automatic hardware message header generator Howard Thomas Olnowich, James William Feeney, Robert Francis Lusch, Michael Anthony Maniguet 1999-07-13 $29,937,000
5742761 Apparatus for adapting message protocols for a switch network and a bus Howard Thomas Olnowich, James William Feeney, Michael Hans Fisher, John D. Jabusch, Robert Francis Lusch +1 more 1998-04-21 $18,070,000