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Stephen S. Harding — 5 Patents

IBM: 5 patents #18,770 of 70,183Top 30%
Charlotte, NC: #878 of 4,868 inventorsTop 20%
North Carolina: #10,126 of 45,564 inventorsTop 25%
Overall (All Time): #907,971 of 4,157,543Top 25%
5 Patents All Time
Stephen S. Harding has been granted 5 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1989 and the most recent in August 2020. Stephen S. Harding ranks #907,971 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 21.8%). Patent records list Stephen S. Harding in Charlotte, NC, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1989 to 2020Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2018.peak 21989: 1 patents19891996: 1 patents19962018: 2 patents20182020: 1 patents2020

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–5 of 5 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10754954 Securely exchanging information during application startup Rayne Anderson, Alpeshkumar Patel, Jiafu Yu 2020-08-25 $2,454,000
10025935 Securely exchanging information during application startup Rayne Anderson, Alpeshkumar Patel, Jiafu Yu 2018-07-17 $3,360,000
10013560 Securely exchanging information during application startup Rayne Anderson, Alpeshkumar Patel, Jiafu Yu 2018-07-03 $3,207,000
5572207 Method and apparatus for numeric-to-string conversion Jody Lynn Mace, Edward Raymond Swiatek 1996-11-05 $15,326,000
4867059 Impact printer print mechanism and method of manufacture Richard A. Halbeisen, Robert A. Sebrosky 1989-09-19 $10,311,000