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Robert M. Bunce — 22 Patents

IBM: 15 patents #7,470 of 70,183Top 15%
Qualcomm: 3 patents #4,553 of 12,104Top 40%
SLSupply Point Systems Limited: 2 patents #4 of 13Top 35%
Disney: 2 patents #2,704 of 6,686Top 45%
Cary, NC: #266 of 3,681 inventorsTop 8%
North Carolina: #2,027 of 45,564 inventorsTop 5%
Overall (All Time): #189,202 of 4,157,543Top 5%
22 Patents All Time
Robert M. Bunce has been granted 22 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1997 and the most recent in July 2025. Robert M. Bunce ranks #189,202 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.6%). Patent records list Robert M. Bunce in Cary, NC, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1997 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 1997.peak 31997: 3 patents19971998: 3 patents2004: 2 patents20042005: 1 patents2006: 2 patents20062007: 1 patents2008: 1 patents20082010: 2 patents2018: 1 patents20182019: 2 patents2021: 1 patents20212022: 1 patents2025: 2 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–22 of 22 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12353764 Single cycle request arbiter 2025-07-08
12273269 Selective mesh routing through non-adjacent nodes Nir Ofir 2025-04-08
11502989 Method of configuring a storage system Christopher Marriott, Christopher Benwell 2022-11-15
11160369 Shelving system Christopher Marriott, Iain Clark, David Owen Prior, Christopher Benwell, Nathan Nicholson 2021-11-02
10411873 Clock data recovery broadcast for multi-lane SerDes Brian J. Schuh, Michael R. Trombley, Carrie E. Cox 2019-09-10 $12,596,000
10218391 Systems and methods providing a low-power mode for serial links Carrie E. Cox, Victor Moy 2019-02-26 $8,408,000
9935762 Apparatus and method for centering clock signal in cumulative data eye of parallel data in clock forwarded links 2018-04-03 $7,863,000
7739427 Dynamic memory allocation between inbound and outbound buffers in a protocol handler Mark R. Bilak, Steven C. Parker, Brian J. Schuh 2010-06-15 $4,416,000
7675966 On-chip detection and measurement of data lock in a high-speed serial data link William R. Kelly, Kevin G. Kramer, Dinesh B. Nair 2010-03-09 $6,686,000
7457895 Dynamic memory allocation between inbound and outbound buffers in a protocol handler Mark R. Bilak, Steven C. Parker, Brian J. Schuh 2008-11-25 $6,627,000
7249206 Dynamic memory allocation between inbound and outbound buffers in a protocol handler Mark R. Bilak, Steven C. Parker, Brian J. Schuh 2007-07-24 $9,916,000
7072970 Programmable network protocol handler architecture Christos J. Georgiou, Monty M. Denneau, Valentina Salapura 2006-07-04
6987761 Inbound data stream controller with pre-recognition of frame sequence Louis T. Fasano, Christos J. Georgiou, Kevin G. Kramer, Brian J. Schuh 2006-01-17 $9,394,000
6877048 Dynamic memory allocation between inbound and outbound buffers in a protocol handler Mark R. Bilak, Steven C. Parker, Brian J. Schuh 2005-04-05 $5,479,000
6836808 Pipelined packet processing Christos J. Georgiou, Valentina Salapura 2004-12-28 $11,084,000
6834365 Integrated real-time data tracing with low pin count output Thomas J. Bardsley, Timothy Michael Kemp, Brian J. Schuh 2004-12-21 $10,287,000
5757682 Parallel calculation of exponent and sticky bit during normalization Eric M. Schwarz, Leon Sigal, Hung C. Ngo 1998-05-26 $6,589,000
5742536 Parallel calculation of exponent and sticky bit during normalization Eric M. Schwarz, Leon Sigal, Hung C. Ngo 1998-04-21 $18,070,000
5742535 Parallel calculation of exponent and sticky bit during normalization Eric M. Schwarz, Leon Sigal, Hung C. Ngo 1998-04-21 $18,070,000
5654911 Carry select and input select adder for late arriving data Eric M. Schwarz 1997-08-05 $24,205,000
5627774 Parallel calculation of exponent and sticky bit during normalization Eric M. Schwarz, Leon Sigal, Hung C. Ngo 1997-05-06 $20,309,000
5619443 Carry select and input select adder for late arriving data Eric M. Schwarz 1997-04-08 $14,871,000