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Robert D. Gordon — 8 Patents

IBM: 7 patents #14,688 of 70,183Top 25%
Sunnyvale, CA: #3,440 of 14,302 inventorsTop 25%
California: #74,834 of 386,348 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #600,572 of 4,157,543Top 15%
8 Patents All Time
Robert D. Gordon has been granted 8 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1990 and the most recent in March 2012. Robert D. Gordon ranks #600,572 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 14.4%). Patent records list Robert D. Gordon in Sunnyvale, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1990 to 2012Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 1992.peak 21990: 1 patents19901992: 2 patents19921993: 1 patents19931995: 2 patents19951996: 1 patents19962012: 1 patents2012

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–8 of 8 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8135603 Method for formulating a plan to secure access to limited deliverable resources 2012-03-13
5491778 System and method for providing visual display transition effects Joseph Sinnott, Lonnie S. Walling 1996-02-13 $8,744,000
5414805 Visual display transition effects using sorted table of display cells Joseph Sinnott, Lonnie S. Walling 1995-05-09 $8,374,000
5390289 Anti-alias font generation Bradley J. Beitel, Joseph B. Witherspoon, III 1995-02-14 $10,210,000
5274758 Computer-based, audio/visual creation and presentation system and method Bradley J. Beitel, Mark S. Bishop, Nancy A. Burns, John J. Deacon, Charles L. Haug +4 more 1993-12-28 $10,686,000
5150312 Animation processor method and apparatus Bradley J. Beitel 1992-09-22 $13,073,000
5119474 Computer-based, audio/visual creation and presentation system and method Bradley J. Beitel, Mark S. Bishop, John J. Deacon, Kenneth Buckley Smith, Lonnie S. Walling +4 more 1992-06-02 $7,916,000
4937760 Method for sharing common values implicitly among communicating generative objects Bradley J. Beitel, Ming C. Hao, Steven V. Kauffman, Ronald L. Obermarck, Arthur M. Sherman +3 more 1990-06-26 $19,404,000