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Robert A. Ross — 42 Patents

IBM: 21 patents #5,188 of 70,183Top 8%
ELElectrawatch: 3 patents #2 of 5Top 40%
VSVirginia Semiconductor: 2 patents #4 of 15Top 30%
Illinois Tool Works: 2 patents #1,637 of 4,311Top 40%
UVUniversity of Virginia: 1 patents #483 of 1,170Top 45%
Charlottesville, VA: #14 of 1,304 inventorsTop 2%
Virginia: #391 of 34,511 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #72,062 of 4,157,543Top 2%
42 Patents All Time
Robert A. Ross has been granted 42 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1986 and the most recent in June 2024. Robert A. Ross ranks #72,062 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.7%). Patent records list Robert A. Ross in Charlottesville, VA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 42 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12007517 Signal tape Ryan C. Dunn, Bryan D. Wright, Joshua M. Parman, Donald A. Tubbs, Paul A. Bell 2024-06-11
9906172 Multiple induction electric motor and vehicle 2018-02-27
9835586 Portable electrochemical cell with temperature control and surface morphology independence Ryan C. Dunn, Guy D. Davis, Paul A. Bell 2017-12-05
9806587 System and method for stator construction of an electric motor 2017-10-31
9778168 Coating monitor for evaluating the effectiveness of protective coatings Guy D. Davis, Ryan C. Dunn 2017-10-03
9599588 Portable electrochemical cells Ryan C. Dunn, Guy D. Davis, Paul A. Bell 2017-03-21
9568121 Passive alarm to prevent buried infrastructure damage Ryan C. Dunn, Guy D. Davis, Paul A. Bell, Nathaniel Brakeley, Emily A. Schechter +1 more 2017-02-14
8950529 Multiple induction electric motor and vehicle 2015-02-10
8550196 Multiple induction electric motor and vehicle 2013-10-08
8397866 Enclosed track system for a fall protection system Andy Townend 2013-03-19
7878126 Pallet sheet with upwardly angled edge portions with oppositely oriented cleats for enhanced gripping Gary G. Markert, Ronald R. Schoenberg, Paul H. Beauregard, Robert F. Flynn 2011-02-01 $16,553,000
7787948 Energy efficient therapeutic pulse generator system Josef K. Hudson 2010-08-31
7638204 Tier sheet Owen J. McGarel, Ronald R. Schoenberg, Philip B. LoPresti 2009-12-29 $20,740,000
D605825 Enclosed track Andy Townend 2009-12-08
6969843 Light standard for microscopy James Melvin Beach, Josef K. Hudson 2005-11-29
6915385 Apparatus for unaligned cache reads and methods therefor Terry Lee Leasure, George McNeil Lattimore, Gus Yeung 2005-07-05 $5,545,000
6690182 Embeddable corrosion monitoring-instrument for steel reinforced structures Robert G. Kelly, Josef K. Hudson, Stephen H. Jones 2004-02-10
6195280 Memory system having a unidirectional bus and method for communicating therewith George McNeil Lattimore, Younes Lotfi, Gus Yeung 2001-02-27 $24,775,000
6191620 Sense amplifier/comparator circuit and data comparison method George McNeil Lattimore, Terry Lee Leasure, Younes Lotfi, Gus Yeung 2001-02-20 $23,750,000
6081458 Memory system having a unidirectional bus and method for communicating therewith George McNeil Lattimore, Younes Lotfi, Gus Yeung 2000-06-27 $38,700,000
6058065 Memory in a data processing system having improved performance and method therefor George McNeil Lattimore, Terry Lee Leasure, Gus Yeung 2000-05-02 $31,039,000
6057924 Optical system for measuring and inspecting partially transparent substrates Stephen H. Jones 2000-05-02
6011726 Four device SRAM cell with single bitline Kevin A. Batson 2000-01-04 $40,662,000
6002626 Method and apparatus for memory cell array boost amplifier George McNeil Lattimore, Gus Yeung 1999-12-14 $24,869,000
5982692 Bit line boost amplifier George McNeil Lattimore, Gus Yeung 1999-11-09 $24,477,000