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Robert C. Edwards — 34 Patents

IBM: 18 patents #6,142 of 70,183Top 9%
AMAmoco: 9 patents #77 of 1,251Top 7%
S(Standard Oil Company (Indiana): 7 patents #29 of 576Top 6%
Naperville, IL: #74 of 3,051 inventorsTop 3%
Illinois: #1,647 of 84,256 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #100,737 of 4,157,543Top 3%
34 Patents All Time
Robert C. Edwards has been granted 34 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1983 and the most recent in July 2022. Robert C. Edwards ranks #100,737 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.4%). Patent records list Robert C. Edwards in Naperville, IL, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1983 to 2022Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 1987.peak 41983: 1 patents19831985: 3 patents1986: 1 patents19861987: 4 patents1988: 2 patents19881989: 4 patents1990: 1 patents19902003: 1 patents2008: 2 patents20082009: 2 patents2010: 2 patents20102011: 3 patents2012: 2 patents20122013: 2 patents2017: 2 patents20172020: 1 patents2022: 1 patents2022

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 34 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11385970 Backing-up blocks from virtual disks in different virtual machine environments having different block lengths to a common data format block length David George Derk, Michael S. Fruchtman, Avishai H. Hochberg, Vadzim I. Piletski, Delbert B. Hoobler, III +1 more 2022-07-12 $10,906,000
10545836 Hypervisor agnostic interchangeable backup recovery and file level recovery from virtual disks David George Derk, Michael S. Fruchtman, Avishai H. Hochberg, Vadzim I. Piletski, Delbert B. Hoobler, III +1 more 2020-01-28 $1,679,000
9800569 Data protection backup agent management Avishai H. Hochberg, Jawed Iqbal, Tai Woo Nam, Joanne T. Nguyen, Neil Gregory Rasmussen +3 more 2017-10-24 $3,030,000
9684567 Hypervisor agnostic interchangeable backup recovery and file level recovery from virtual disks David George Derk, Michael S. Fruchtman, Avishai H. Hochberg, Vadzim L. Piletski, Delbert B. Hoobler, III +1 more 2017-06-20 $2,315,000
8554744 Elimination of redundant objects in storage systems David M. Cannon, Colin S. Dawson 2013-10-08 $7,754,000
8352434 Performing scheduled backups of a backup node associated with a plurality of agent nodes David George Derk, Glen Hattrup, Avisbai Haim Hochberg, Thomas Franklin Ramke, Jr., James P. Smith 2013-01-08 $4,312,000
8131669 Management of redundant objects in storage systems David M. Cannon, Colin S. Dawson, Michael Allen Kaczmarski, Christopher Zaremba 2012-03-06 $5,131,000
8117169 Performing scheduled backups of a backup node associated with a plurality of agent nodes David George Derk, Glen Hattrup, Avisbai Haim Hochberg, Thomas Franklin Ramke, Jr., James P. Smith 2012-02-14 $8,403,000
7958152 Elimination of redundant objects in storage systems David M. Cannon, Colin S. Dawson 2011-06-07 $3,978,000
7895165 Management of redundant object in storage systems David M. Cannon, Colin S. Dawson, Michael Allen Kaczmarski, Christopher Zaremba 2011-02-22 $3,876,000
7882549 Systems for authenticating a user's credentials against multiple sets of credentials Michael Allen Kaczmarski, Omar Vargas 2011-02-01 $3,711,000
7747577 Management of redundant objects in storage systems David M. Cannon, Colin S. Dawson, Michael Allen Kaczmarski, Christopher Zaremba 2010-06-29 $6,113,000
7730122 Authenticating a node requesting another node to perform work on behalf of yet another node Glen Hattrup, Avishai H. Hochberg, Neil Gregory Rasmussen, James P. Smith 2010-06-01 $6,263,000
7539735 Multi-session no query restore Barry Fruchtman, Omar Vargas 2009-05-26 $7,976,000
7506033 System and method for remotely accessing a client in a client server environment Douglas Robert Case, David George Derk, James Michael Dile, Avishai H. Hochberg, David T. Kwan +6 more 2009-03-17 $4,806,000
7461102 Method for performing scheduled backups of a backup node associated with a plurality of agent nodes David George Derk, Glen Hattrup, Avishai H. Hochberg, Thomas Franklin Ramke, Jr., James P. Smith 2008-12-02 $5,263,000
7403949 Elimination of redundant objects in storage systems David M. Cannon, Colin S. Dawson 2008-07-22 $9,818,000
6584497 Method, system, and program for returning a file requested through a network connection Douglas Robert Case, Lori Christine Simcox 2003-06-24 $21,997,000
4918201 Process for preparation of maleic anhydride 1990-04-17 $25,006,000
4861738 Process for regenerating and stabilizing phosphorus-vanadium-oxygen complex catalysts 1989-08-29 $8,490,000
4845241 Process for the manufacture of maleic William S. Eryman 1989-07-04
4824819 Vanadium coated phosphorus-vandium oxide and phosphorus-vanadium oxide co-metal catalyst and process for the manufacture of maleic anhydride William S. Eryman 1989-04-25 $13,515,000
4810803 Process for improving phosphorus-vanadium oxide and phosphorus vanadium-co-metal oxide catalysts in the oxidation of -butane to maleic anhydride 1989-03-07 $17,006,000
4780548 Process for the manufacture of maleic anhydride utilizing catalysts reactivated with an ester of orthophosphoric acid in the presence of water Carl A. Udovich 1988-10-25 $39,575,000
4732885 Process for the preparation of catalysts useful for the manufacture of maleic anhydride Bernard L. Meyers 1988-03-22 $49,383,000