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Ronald E. Freking — 16 Patents

IBM: 16 patents #6,980 of 70,183Top 10%
Issaquah, WA: #159 of 1,767 inventorsTop 9%
Washington: #6,223 of 76,902 inventorsTop 9%
Overall (All Time): #284,196 of 4,157,543Top 7%
16 Patents All Time
Ronald E. Freking has been granted 16 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 2009 and the most recent in March 2016. Ronald E. Freking ranks #284,196 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 6.8%). Patent records list Ronald E. Freking in Issaquah, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2009 to 2016Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2015.peak 42009: 1 patents20092010: 1 patents20102011: 1 patents20112012: 2 patents20122013: 2 patents20132014: 3 patents20142015: 4 patents20152016: 2 patents2016

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–16 of 16 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9292460 Versatile lane configuration using a PCIe PIE-8 interface Elizabeth A. McGlone, Daniel R. Spach, Curtis C. Wollbrink 2016-03-22 $2,974,000
9292462 Broadcast for a distributed switch network Elizabeth A. McGlone, Daniel R. Spach, Curtis C. Wollbrink 2016-03-22 $2,974,000
9122604 External settings that reconfigure the error handling behavior of a distributed PCIe switch Elizabeth A. McGlone, Nicholas V. Tram, Curtis C. Wollbrink 2015-09-01 $3,766,000
9087162 Using a PCI standard hot plug controller to modify the hierarchy of a distributed switch Elizabeth A. McGlone, Daniel R. Spach, Curtis C. Wollbrink 2015-07-21 $2,242,000
9043526 Versatile lane configuration using a PCIe PIe-8 interface Elizabeth A. McGlone, Daniel R. Spach, Curtis C. Wollbrink 2015-05-26 $2,909,000
8949499 Using a PCI standard hot plug controller to modify the hierarchy of a distributed switch Elizabeth A. McGlone, Daniel R. Spach, Curtis C. Wollbrink 2015-02-03 $3,062,000
8898359 Bandwidth limiting on generated PCIe packets from debug source Elizabeth A. McGlone, Daniel R. Spach, Curtis C. Wollbrink 2014-11-25 $4,405,000
8793539 External settings that reconfigure the error handling behavior of a distributed PCIe switch Elizabeth A. McGlone, Nicholas V. Tram, Curtis C. Wollbrink 2014-07-29 $5,690,000
8706938 Bandwidth limiting on generated PCIE packets from debug source Elizabeth A. McGlone, Daniel R. Spach, Curtis C. Wollbrink 2014-04-22 $7,961,000
8549217 Spacing periodic commands to a volatile memory for increased performance and decreased collision Herman L. Blackmon, Ryan Scott Haraden, Joseph A. Kirscht 2013-10-01 $5,042,000
8397100 Managing memory refreshes H. Lee Blackmon, Ryan Scott Haraden, Joseph A. Kirscht, Elizabeth A. McGlone 2013-03-12 $9,153,000
8271710 Moving ownership of a device between compute elements William J. Armstrong, Scott N. Dunham, David R. Engebretsen, Mehul M. Shah, Steven M. Thurber +1 more 2012-09-18 $5,189,000
8266331 Transmitting retry request associated with non-posted command via response credit channel Elizabeth A. McGlone, John L. Pike, Curtis C. Wollbrink 2012-09-11 $6,476,000
7941633 Hash optimization system and method Marcy E. Byers, Ryan Scott Haraden, David A. Shedivy 2011-05-10 $6,699,000
7660917 System and method of implementing multiple internal virtual channels based on a single external virtual channel Curtis C. Wollbrink 2010-02-09 $5,437,000
7496707 Dynamically scalable queues for performance driven PCI express memory traffic Philip Hillier, Curtis C. Wollbrink 2009-02-24 $4,380,000