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William Buchanan — 13 Patents

IBM: 6 patents #16,491 of 70,183Top 25%
The Procter & Gamble: 2 patents #6,173 of 10,297Top 60%
LPLenovo (Singapore) Pte.: 1 patents #1,155 of 1,301Top 90%
Houston, TX: #1,702 of 21,073 inventorsTop 9%
Texas: #11,592 of 125,132 inventorsTop 10%
Overall (All Time): #362,438 of 4,157,543Top 9%
13 Patents All Time
William Buchanan has been granted 13 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1981 and the most recent in August 2008. William Buchanan ranks #362,438 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 8.7%). Patent records list William Buchanan in Houston, TX, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1981 to 2008Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2007.peak 31981: 1 patents19811989: 1 patents1990: 1 patents19901995: 1 patents1997: 1 patents19971998: 1 patents2003: 1 patents20032005: 1 patents2006: 1 patents20062007: 3 patents2008: 1 patents2008

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–13 of 13 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7415519 System and method for prevention of boot storms in a computer network Antonio Abbondanzio, Simon Chu, Gregory W. Dake, Stephen W. Murphrey, William Joseph Piazza +2 more 2008-08-19
7213102 Apparatus method and system for alternate control of a RAID array Simon Chu, Linda A. Rledle, Paul Brian Tippett 2007-05-01 $7,088,000
7194659 Method and system for detection and correction of entrance into an improper MBR state in a computer system Simon Chu, Peter Donovan, Benjamin Grimes, Gregory B. Pruett, David B. Rhoades +1 more 2007-03-20 $5,658,000
7171479 Efficient delivery of boot code images from a network server Simon Chu, William Joseph Piazza, David B. Rhoades, Linda Ann Riedle 2007-01-30 $4,520,000
6993583 Dynamically sharing a pool of IP addresses Jeffrey Wayne Anderson, Travis Daren Appleman, Simon Chu, David Green, William Joseph Piazza +2 more 2006-01-31 $6,009,000
6898705 Automatic appliance server re-provision/re-purposing method Akram Abboud, John Michael Brantly, Peter Chin, Simon Chu, Richard A. Dayan +9 more 2005-05-24 $7,850,000
6636958 Appliance server with a drive partitioning scheme that accommodates application growth in size Akram Abboud, John Michael Brantly, Peter Chin, Simon Chu, Richard A. Dayan +8 more 2003-10-21 $7,269,000
5785951 Use of ketorolac for treatment of oral diseases and conditions Gary Robert Kelm, Harvey Marvin Pickrum, Matthew Joseph Doyle 1998-07-28 $48,721,000
5646174 Use of ketorolac for treatment of oral diseases and conditions Gary Robert Kelm, Harvey Marvin Pickrum, Matthew Joseph Doyle 1997-07-08
5464609 Use of ketorolac for treatment of oral diseases and conditions Gary Robert Kelm, Harvey Marvin Pickrum, Matthew Joseph Doyle 1995-11-07 $45,879,000
4967354 Method of preparing customized written examinations 1990-10-30
4815766 Re-usable test booklet 1989-03-28
D258467 Trouble light 1981-03-03