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William C. Rapp — 29 Patents

IBM: 29 patents #3,540 of 70,183Top 6%
Rochester, MN: #194 of 3,042 inventorsTop 7%
Minnesota: #2,087 of 52,454 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #127,851 of 4,157,543Top 4%
29 Patents All Time
William C. Rapp has been granted 29 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1993 and the most recent in August 2021. William C. Rapp ranks #127,851 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.1%). Patent records list William C. Rapp in Rochester, MN, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1993 to 2021Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2012.peak 31993: 2 patents19931994: 1 patents1995: 1 patents19951999: 1 patents2004: 1 patents20042005: 2 patents2008: 2 patents20082009: 1 patents2011: 2 patents20112012: 3 patents2013: 2 patents20132014: 2 patents2015: 2 patents20152016: 1 patents2017: 2 patents20172018: 1 patents2019: 2 patents20192021: 1 patents2021

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 29 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11080335 Concept-based autosuggest based on previously identified items Daniel Weber, Nathaniel E. Rykal, David A. Christenson 2021-08-03 $4,187,000
10460239 Generation of inferred questions for a question answering system John E. Petri, Michael D. Pfeifer 2019-10-29 $4,364,000
10268688 Corpus-scoped annotation and analysis Joel C. Dubbels, Mark G. Megerian 2019-04-23 $3,141,000
10055410 Corpus-scoped annotation and analysis Joel C. Dubbels, Mark G. Megerian 2018-08-21 $2,787,000
9773044 Multi-dimensional feature merging for supporting evidence in a question and answering system Joel C. Dubbels, Thomas J. Eggebraaten, Mark G. Megerian, Richard J. Stevens, Patrick M. Wildt +1 more 2017-09-26 $3,108,000
9753986 Multi-dimensional feature merging for supporting evidence in a question and answering system Joel C. Dubbels, Thomas J. Eggebraaten, Mark G. Megerian, Richard J. Stevens, Patrick M. Wildt +1 more 2017-09-05 $2,785,000
9257052 Evaluating candidate answers to questions in a target knowledge domain Richard J. Stevens, Eric W. Will 2016-02-09 $2,307,000
9141927 Determining costs for workflows John E. Petri, Richard J. Stevens 2015-09-22 $4,871,000
9104985 Processing system using metadata for administering a business transaction Travis M. Drucker, Joel C. Dubbels, Richard J. Stevens, David A. Wall 2015-08-11 $2,160,000
8630959 Determining costs for workflows John E. Petri, Richard J. Stevens 2014-01-14 $7,408,000
8627233 Radial menu with overshoot, fade away, and undo capabilities Brian J. Cragun, Bradley J. Erickson, Michael J. Fork 2014-01-07 $4,729,000
8578295 Placement of items in cascading radial menus Paul R. Chmielewski, Brian J. Cragun, Michael J. Fork 2013-11-05 $5,290,000
8468466 Radial menu selection with gestures Brian J. Cragun, Bradley J. Erickson, Michael J. Fork 2013-06-18 $7,677,000
8140964 Annotation validity using partial checksums Brian J. Cragun 2012-03-20 $2,170,000
8112382 Process for data driven application integration for B2B Terrence Ross O'Brien, Richard J. Stevens 2012-02-07 $8,176,000
8095497 Process for data driven application integration for B2B Terrence Ross O'Brien, Richard J. Stevens 2012-01-10 $7,380,000
7962514 Attaching and displaying annotations to changing data views Brian J. Cragun, Douglas R. Fish, Cale T. Rath, Hoa T. Tran 2011-06-14 $3,503,000
7870152 Attaching and displaying annotations to changing data views Brian J. Cragun, Douglas R. Fish, Cale T. Rath, Hoa T. Tran 2011-01-11 $2,856,000
7475081 Method for data driven application integration for B2B Terrence Ross O'Brien, Richard J. Stevens 2009-01-06 $2,860,000
7392267 Annotation validity using partial checksums Brian J. Cragun 2008-06-24 $7,053,000
7373349 Process for data driven application integration for B2B Terrence Ross O'Brien, Richard J. Stevens 2008-05-13 $14,751,000
6938257 Apparatus and method to provide persistence for application interfaces Kristiann J. Schultz 2005-08-30 $6,623,000
6898711 User authentication system and method for multiple process applications Mark Bauman, Patrick S. Botz 2005-05-24 $7,850,000
6816865 Process for data driven application integration for B2B Terrence Ross O'Brien, Richard J. Stevens 2004-11-09 $4,707,000
5970498 Object oriented framework mechanism for metering objects Dana M. Duffield, Eric Leonard Fosdick 1999-10-19 $17,852,000