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Robert Lai — 5 Patents

IBM: 4 patents #21,783 of 70,183Top 35%
San Jose, CA: #10,871 of 32,062 inventorsTop 35%
California: #107,996 of 386,348 inventorsTop 30%
Overall (All Time): #907,971 of 4,157,543Top 25%
5 Patents All Time
Robert Lai has been granted 5 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1996 and the most recent in September 2007. Robert Lai ranks #907,971 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 21.8%). Patent records list Robert Lai in San Jose, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1996 to 2007Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 1998.peak 21996: 1 patents19961998: 2 patents19982003: 1 patents20032007: 1 patents2007

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–5 of 5 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7266622 Method, computer program product, and system for automatic application buffering John Kevin Flanigan, Haley Hoi Lee Fung, Judith Eleanor Hill, Gerald Dean Hughes, Steve T. Kuo +2 more 2007-09-04 $5,939,000
6571270 Timeout detection facility Richard Schneider 2003-05-27 $11,691,000
5794418 Pallet stretch wrapping machine 1998-08-18
5706429 Transaction processing system and method Robert Millar, Harry Otto Radke 1998-01-06 $19,122,000
5544325 System and method for generating messages for use in transaction networks George S. Denny, Sherry Li, Joseph F. Murphy, Hoang Nguyen, Mark Neal Ziebarth 1996-08-06 $6,901,000