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Stephen Sauer — 8 Patents

IBM: 7 patents #14,688 of 70,183Top 25%
CACapro: 1 patents #4 of 13Top 35%
Overall (All Time): #600,572 of 4,157,543Top 15%
8 Patents All Time
Stephen Sauer has been granted 8 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1998 and the most recent in August 2018. Stephen Sauer ranks #600,572 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 14.4%). Patent records list Stephen Sauer in Puteaux, TX, FR.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1998 to 2018Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2017.peak 21998: 1 patents19982013: 1 patents20132014: 1 patents20142015: 1 patents20152016: 1 patents20162017: 2 patents20172018: 1 patents2018

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–8 of 8 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10045247 Load balancing traffic in a MPLS network Lionel Denecheau, Ludovic Hazard 2018-08-07 $1,950,000
9762495 Weighted distribution across paths of degraded quality Hsiu Lan Chen, Robert K. Floyd, III, James W. Ling, Liviu Tudorache 2017-09-12 $1,776,000
9749896 Load balancing traffic in a MPLS network Lionel Denecheau, Ludovic Hazard 2017-08-29 $2,195,000
9374312 Load balancing traffic in a MPLS network Lionel Denecheau, Ludovic Hazard 2016-06-21 $3,815,000
9185041 Load balancing traffic in a MPLS network Lionel Denecheau, Ludovic Hazard 2015-11-10 $5,091,000
8811150 Dynamic error dampening in a network system Frederic Bauchot, Lionel Denecheau, Ludovic Hazard 2014-08-19 $3,895,000
8422358 Best-path evaluation based on reliability of network interface layers Frederic Bauchot, Lionel Denecheau, Ludovic Hazard 2013-04-16 $3,567,000
5803654 Control cable mounting system Arthur L. Spease, James Ryan, Bernard Driggers, William H. Grojean 1998-09-08 $2,590,000