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Robert Allan Faust — 21 Patents

IBM: 21 patents #5,188 of 70,183Top 8%
Austin, TX: #1,550 of 18,064 inventorsTop 9%
Texas: #6,491 of 125,132 inventorsTop 6%
Overall (All Time): #201,324 of 4,157,543Top 5%
21 Patents All Time
Robert Allan Faust has been granted 21 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 2000 and the most recent in May 2010. Robert Allan Faust ranks #201,324 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.8%). Patent records list Robert Allan Faust in Austin, TX, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2000 to 2010Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2001.peak 52000: 1 patents20002001: 5 patents20012004: 5 patents20042005: 1 patents20052006: 3 patents20062008: 2 patents20082009: 3 patents20092010: 1 patents2010

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–21 of 21 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7711993 JTAGchain bus switching and configuring device Mike C. Duron, Forrest Clifton Gray, Ajay Kumar Mahajan, Glenn Rueban Miles 2010-05-04 $4,679,000
7579896 Method and apparatus for generating multiple analog signals using a single microcontroller output pin John Daniel Upton 2009-08-25 $21,245,000
7498801 Apparatus, method, and computer program product for monitoring and controlling a microcomputer using a single existing pin 2009-03-03 $5,705,000
7477176 Method and apparatus for generating multiple analog signals using a single microcontroller output pin John Daniel Upton 2009-01-13 $4,505,000
7454664 JTAGchain bus switching and configuring device Mike C. Duron, Forrest Clifton Gray, Ajay Kumar Mahajan, Glenn Rueban Miles 2008-11-18 $4,805,000
7355384 Apparatus, method, and computer program product for monitoring and controlling a microcomputer using a single existing pin 2008-04-08 $6,866,000
7085863 I2C device including bus switches and programmable address Michael Anton Barenys, Stephan Otis Broyles, Joel Gerard Goodwin 2006-08-01 $2,070,000
7076708 Method and apparatus for diagnosis and behavior modification of an embedded microcontroller John Daniel Upton 2006-07-11 $5,175,000
7010726 Method and apparatus for saving data used in error analysis Kevin Gene Kehne, Sayileela Nulu, Gary Lee Ruzek 2006-03-07 $6,870,000
6976197 Apparatus and method for error logging on a memory module Joel Gerard Goodwin 2005-12-13 $5,273,000
6769078 Method for isolating an I2C bus fault using self bus switching device Michael Anton Barenys, Joel Gerald Goodwin 2004-07-27 $9,809,000
6745270 Dynamically allocating I2C addresses using self bus switching device Michael Anton Barenys, Joel Gerald Goodwin 2004-06-01 $8,295,000
6725320 I2C bus switching devices interspersed between I2C devices Michael Anton Barenys, Joel Gerald Goodwin 2004-04-20 $6,170,000
6715110 External debug card sharing a communication bus William Eldred Beebe, Joel Gerald Goodwin 2004-03-30 $9,421,000
6675293 Auxiliary processor manages firmware personalities while borrowing host system resources William Eldred Beebe, Christopher L. Canestaro, Craig Henry Shempert 2004-01-06 $7,683,000
6334165 Address type determination for an I2C EEPROM Michael Anton Barenys, William Eldred Beebe, Joel Gerard Goodwin 2001-12-25
6308289 Method and system for environmental sensing and control within a computer system George Henry Ahrens, Mike C. Duron, Charles Andrew McLaughlin, Craig Henry Shempert, Kurt Paul Szabo 2001-10-23 $31,841,000
6281860 Cues for status information George Henry Ahrens, Mike C. Duron, Forrest Clifton Gray, Kurt Paul Szabo 2001-08-28 $18,210,000
6205504 Externally provided control of an I2C bus John C. Kennel 2001-03-20 $35,881,000
6182199 System and method for granting permission to modify a memory area 2001-01-30 $13,187,000
6148419 System diagnostic location codes George Henry Ahrens, Mike C. Duron, Forrest Clifton Gray, Kurt Paul Szabo 2000-11-14 $46,730,000