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Robert J. Grafe — 8 Patents

IBM: 8 patents #13,181 of 70,183Top 20%
Austin, TX: #3,968 of 18,064 inventorsTop 25%
Texas: #19,067 of 125,132 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #600,572 of 4,157,543Top 15%
8 Patents All Time
Robert J. Grafe has been granted 8 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1984 and the most recent in October 1996. Robert J. Grafe ranks #600,572 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 14.4%). Patent records list Robert J. Grafe in Austin, TX, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1984 to 1996Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 1984.peak 21984: 2 patents19841987: 1 patents19871989: 1 patents19891993: 1 patents19931995: 1 patents19951996: 2 patents1996

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–8 of 8 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
5566332 Method and combination for minimizing data conversions when data is transferred between a first database storing data in a first format and a second database storing data in a second format John G. Adair, Daniel J. Coyle, Jr., Bruce G. Lindsay, Roger A. Reinsch, Robert Peter Resch +2 more 1996-10-15 $13,145,000
5561797 Method for synchronizing transaction processing in a distributed heterogeneous system Robert Gilles, Robert Jackson, Roger A. Reinsch, Richard R. Sanders, Jacob Slonim +1 more 1996-10-01 $9,792,000
5416917 Heterogenous database communication system in which communicating systems identify themselves and convert any requests/responses into their own data format John G. Adair, Daniel J. Coyle, Jr., Bruce G. Lindsay, Roger A. Reinsch, Robert Peter Resch +2 more 1995-05-16 $12,933,000
5257366 Query language execution on heterogeneous database servers using a bind-file bridge between application and database languages John G. Adair, Richard A. Demers, Dusan Ecimovic, Robert Jackson, Bruce G. Lindsay +7 more 1993-10-26 $7,840,000
4864516 Method for implementing an on-line presentation in an information processing system William D. Gaither, Laura T. Giovannetti, Linda Hall, Gregory Phillip Meyer, Steven T. Pancoast 1989-09-05 $33,940,000
4709367 Method and apparatus for distinguishing between diskettes in a diskette drive Steven T. Pancoast 1987-11-24 $40,638,000
4480308 Text processing system with communication data save facility Gary E. Leikam 1984-10-30 $31,092,000
4443863 Timer driven display updating Dennis G. Busch, Gary E. Leikam 1984-04-17 $34,280,000