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Robert M. Piper — 5 Patents

IBM: 4 patents #21,783 of 70,183Top 35%
LPLenovo (Singapore) Pte.: 1 patents #1,155 of 1,012Top 115%
Raleigh, NC: #1,630 of 6,378 inventorsTop 30%
North Carolina: #10,126 of 45,564 inventorsTop 25%
Overall (All Time): #907,971 of 4,157,543Top 25%
5 Patents All Time
Robert M. Piper has been granted 5 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 2003 and the most recent in October 2017. Robert M. Piper ranks #907,971 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 21.8%). Patent records list Robert M. Piper in Raleigh, NC, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2003 to 2017Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2013.peak 22003: 1 patents20032012: 1 patents20122013: 2 patents20132017: 1 patents2017

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–5 of 5 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9785595 Multi-channel universal serial bus (USB) to subrate channel systems Daniel Barus, Donald G. Polak 2017-10-10
8589741 Server network diagnostic system David T. Windell, Pravin Patel, James E. Hughes, Christopher C. West, Timothy Schlude 2013-11-19 $3,686,000
8495349 Generating a primary BIOS code memory address and a recovery BIOS code memory address, where the recovery BIOS service code is loaded when the primary BIOS code fails to execute Thomas F. Lewis, Pivithuru S. Perera 2013-07-23 $2,085,000
8291266 Server network diagnostic system David T. Windell, Pravin Patel, James E. Hughes, Christopher C. West, Timothy Schlude 2012-10-16 $3,795,000
6615360 Method and system for controlling a power on sequence in response to monitoring respective components of a computer system with multiple CPU sockets to determine proper functionality Kamran Amini, Robert Joseph Evans, Henry G. McMillan, Michael L. Scollard, Paul M. Smith 2003-09-02 $11,479,000