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William Bittles — 14 Patents

IBM: 13 patents #8,610 of 70,183Top 15%
Globalfoundries: 1 patents #2,221 of 4,424Top 55%
Winchester, GB: #48 of 924 inventorsTop 6%
Overall (All Time): #332,869 of 4,157,543Top 9%
14 Patents All Time
William Bittles has been granted 14 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 2012 and the most recent in April 2024. William Bittles ranks #332,869 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 8.0%). Patent records list William Bittles in Winchester, GB.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2012 to 2024Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2013.peak 32012: 2 patents20122013: 3 patents20132014: 2 patents20142017: 2 patents20172018: 2 patents20182019: 2 patents20192024: 1 patents2024

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–14 of 14 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11956300 Message switching David Granshaw, John Brian Pickering 2024-04-09 $10,928,000
10412146 Message switching David Granshaw, John Brian Pickering 2019-09-10 $4,978,000
10395171 Providing event-processing rules Jonathan P. Bond, David Granshaw, Daniel J. McGinnes 2019-08-27 $1,335,000
9954777 Data processing Simon Davitt, Christopher Leonard 2018-04-24 $2,845,000
9948555 Data processing Simon Davitt, Christopher Leonard 2018-04-17 $1,989,000
9632884 Maintaining computer system operability Andrew Martin, Timothy F. McCarthy 2017-04-25 $7,864,000
9569285 Method and system for message handling David Granshaw, John Brian Pickering 2017-02-14 $1,939,000
8898641 Managing transactions within a middleware container Martin E. D. Adams, John W. Duffell, Yue Wang 2014-11-25 $4,405,000
8805860 Processing encoded data elements using an index stored in a file Lucas W. Partridge 2014-08-12 $3,643,000
8539508 Message ordering using dynamically updated selectors Simon R. Gormley, Chris Matthewson, Paul Titheridge 2013-09-17 $4,204,000
8495587 Method, apparatus or software for selectively activating a trace function Paul Titheridge, David John Vines 2013-07-23 $2,085,000
8417765 Method and apparatus to enable protocol verification Jason C. Edmeades, Simon R. Gormley, John Brian Pickering, Paul Titheridge 2013-04-09 $4,611,000
8250115 Method, apparatus and software for processing data encoded as one or more data elements in a data format Lucas W. Partridge 2012-08-21 $4,162,000
8200765 Preserving message order using a message ordering manager Simon R. Gormley, Christopher Matthewson, Paul Titheridge 2012-06-12 $5,600,000