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Robert Frank Maddock — 12 Patents

IBM: 12 patents #9,258 of 70,183Top 15%
Southampton, GB: #57 of 980 inventorsTop 6%
Overall (All Time): #396,045 of 4,157,543Top 10%
12 Patents All Time
Robert Frank Maddock has been granted 12 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1985 and the most recent in August 2010. Robert Frank Maddock ranks #396,045 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 9.5%). Patent records list Robert Frank Maddock in Southampton, GB.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1985 to 2010Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2007.peak 31985: 1 patents19852003: 1 patents20032005: 1 patents20052007: 3 patents20072008: 3 patents20082009: 2 patents20092010: 1 patents2010

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–12 of 12 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7788523 Method and apparatus for relating device name to physical location of device on a network Reginald Beer, Paul Nicholas Cashman, Paul Hooton, Ian David Judd, Neil Morris +3 more 2010-08-31 $3,369,000
7518989 Method and apparatus for recovery from faults in a loop network Reginald Beer, Paul Nicholas Cashman, Paul Hooton, Ian David Judd, Robert B. Nicholson +1 more 2009-04-14 $4,368,000
7506187 Methods, apparatus and controllers for a raid storage system — 2009-03-17 $4,806,000
7443788 Method and apparatus for improving performance of a loop network Paul Nicholas Cashman, Robert B. Nicholson, Michael A. Veal 2008-10-28 $6,235,000
7415559 Data processing systems and method for processing work items in such systems Henry Esmond Butterworth, Carlos F. Fuente 2008-08-19 $14,278,000
7398415 Method and apparatus for relating device name to physical location of device on a network Reginald Beer, Paul Nicholas Cashman, Paul Hooton, Ian David Judd, Neil Morris +3 more 2008-07-08 $9,414,000
7274673 Method and apparatus for detection of port name in a loop network Reginald Beer, Paul Nicholas Cashman, Paul Hooton, Neil Morris, Robert B. Nicholson 2007-09-25 $7,894,000
7203161 Method and apparatus for recovery from faults in a loop network Reginald Beer, Paul Nicholas Cashman, Paul Hooton, Ian David Judd, Robert B. Nicholson +1 more 2007-04-10 $7,482,000
7200108 Method and apparatus for recovery from faults in a loop network Reginald Beer, Paul Nicholas Cashman, Paul Hooton, Ian David Judd, Neil Morris +2 more 2007-04-03 $7,379,000
6954882 Method and apparatus for fault location in a loop network Reginald Beer, Paul Nicholas Cashman, Paul Hooton, Ian David Judd, Neil Morris +2 more 2005-10-11 $11,788,000
6657534 Remote power control Reginald Beer, Michael A. Veal 2003-12-02 $4,756,000
4513391 Text processing apparatus with two-stage formatting of text — 1985-04-23 $13,548,000

Frequent Collaborators

Paul Nicholas Cashman8 shared
Reginald Beer8 shared
Robert B. Nicholson8 shared
Paul Hooton7 shared
Ian David Judd6 shared
Neil Morris5 shared

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