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William E. Atherton — 21 Patents

IBM: 17 patents #6,529 of 70,183Top 10%
LPLenovo (Singapore) Pte.: 4 patents #485 of 1,012Top 50%
Hillsborough, NC: #10 of 252 inventorsTop 4%
North Carolina: #2,157 of 45,564 inventorsTop 5%
Overall (All Time): #201,324 of 4,157,543Top 5%
21 Patents All Time
William E. Atherton has been granted 21 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 2005 and the most recent in April 2019. William E. Atherton ranks #201,324 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.8%). Patent records list William E. Atherton in Hillsborough, NC, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–21 of 21 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10270765 Enabling application functions responsive to biometric input from more than one person 2019-04-23
10049074 PCI-E real-time flow control optimization Dustin Patterson, Sandra Rhodes 2018-08-14
9262284 Single channel memory mirror Jimmy G. Foster, Sr. 2016-02-16
8924644 Extending cache in a multi-processor computer Marcus A. Baker, Sreekanth Konireddygari, Jeffrey B. Williams 2014-12-30
8898416 Storage allocation management in switches utilizing flow control Marcus A. Baker, Eric R. Kern 2014-11-25 $4,405,000
8140730 System reconfiguration of expansion cards 2012-03-20 $2,170,000
8132055 Operating system-firmware interface update recovery Paul Anderson, Tu T. Dang, Michael C. Elles 2012-03-06 $5,131,000
8108179 End of life prediction of flash memory Tara Astigarraga, Michael E. Browne 2012-01-31 $4,013,000
8108180 End of life prediction of flash memory Tara Astigarraga, Michael E. Browne 2012-01-31 $4,013,000
8103993 Structure for dynamically allocating lanes to a plurality of PCI express connectors Marcus A. Baker, Eric R. Kern 2012-01-24 $7,514,000
7809869 Throttling a point-to-point, serial input/output expansion subsystem within a computing system Thomas A. Gregg, Paul J. Mattos 2010-10-05 $4,341,000
7661044 Method, apparatus and program product to concurrently detect, repair, verify and isolate memory failures Tara Astigarraga, Michael E. Browne 2010-02-09 $5,437,000
7657688 Dynamically allocating lanes to a plurality of PCI express connectors Marcus A. Baker, Eric R. Kern 2010-02-02 $8,575,000
7496708 Boot read-only memory (ROM) configuration optimization Richard A. Dayan, Scott N. Dunham, William B. Schwartz 2009-02-24 $4,380,000
7487409 Apparatus, system, and method for accessing system information Fernando A. Lopez, Robert R. Wolford 2009-02-03 $3,057,000
7480757 Method for dynamically allocating lanes to a plurality of PCI Express connectors Marcus A. Baker, Eric R. Kern 2009-01-20 $5,212,000
7356442 End of life prediction of flash memory Tara Astigarraga, Michael E. Browne 2008-04-08 $6,866,000
7284084 ROM scan memory expander Daryl Cromer, Richard A. Dayan, Scott N. Dunham, Eric R. Kern, Howard Locker +2 more 2007-10-16 $5,691,000
7000087 Programmatically pre-selecting specific physical memory blocks to allocate to an executing application Raghunath Reddy Kallem, David J. Rudda, Jr., David Wu 2006-02-14 $5,958,000
6961794 System and method for analyzing and optimizing computer system performance utilizing observed time performance measures Randal L. Bertram, Gregory J. McKnight, William Joseph Piazza 2005-11-01 $6,114,000
6941450 System and method for identifying one or more optimum configurations of a data processing system Gregory J. McKnight, William Joseph Piazza 2005-09-06 $5,379,000