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Raymond J. Thatcher — 8 Patents

IBM: 7 patents #14,688 of 70,183Top 25%
JUJds Uniphase: 1 patents #393 of 940Top 45%
Rochester, MN: #679 of 3,042 inventorsTop 25%
Minnesota: #9,348 of 52,454 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #600,572 of 4,157,543Top 15%
8 Patents All Time
Raymond J. Thatcher has been granted 8 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1996 and the most recent in August 2002. Raymond J. Thatcher ranks #600,572 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 14.4%). Patent records list Raymond J. Thatcher in Rochester, MN, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1996 to 2002Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 1999.peak 21996: 1 patents19961998: 1 patents19981999: 2 patents19992000: 1 patents20002001: 2 patents20012002: 1 patents2002

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–8 of 8 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
6439781 Data transfer system incorporating optical fiber link module with internal electromagnetic shield David Peter Gaio, Paul John Sendelbach 2002-08-27 $24,263,000
6208152 Redundant resistor matching detector with constant percentage threshold Steven J. Baumgartner, Kevin Paul Demsky 2001-03-27 $29,796,000
6200041 Data transfer system incorporating optical fiber link module with internal electromagnetic shield David Peter Gaio, Paul John Sendelbach 2001-03-13 $29,262,000
6085006 Optical fiber link module with internal electromagnetic shield David Peter Gaio, Paul John Sendelbach 2000-07-04
5999549 Method and apparatus for laser safety Ladd W. Freitag, David W. Siljenberg 1999-12-07 $33,125,000
5901263 Hot pluggable module integrated lock/extraction tool David Peter Gaio, Tim Kerry Murphy, Miles Frank Swain 1999-05-04 $26,914,000
5757998 Multigigabit adaptable transceiver module Mark K. Hoffmeyer, David Peter Gaio, Sukhvinder S. Kang 1998-05-26 $6,589,000
5535035 Optical fiber ring communications system and communications method Steven M. DeFoster, Horst Lebrecht Truestedt 1996-07-09 $6,020,000