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William E. Dougherty, Jr. — 12 Patents

IBM: 11 patents #10,022 of 70,183Top 15%
Pittsburgh, PA: #651 of 7,570 inventorsTop 9%
Pennsylvania: #6,679 of 74,527 inventorsTop 9%
Overall (All Time): #396,045 of 4,157,543Top 10%
12 Patents All Time
William E. Dougherty, Jr. has been granted 12 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1980 and the most recent in January 2018. William E. Dougherty, Jr. ranks #396,045 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 9.5%). Patent records list William E. Dougherty, Jr. in Pittsburgh, PA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1980 to 2018Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 1980.peak 21980: 2 patents19801981: 2 patents19811983: 1 patents19831984: 1 patents19841986: 2 patents19862008: 1 patents20082010: 1 patents20102012: 1 patents20122018: 1 patents2018

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–12 of 12 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9875326 Addressing coupled noise-based violations with buffering in a batch environment Charles J. Alpert, Zhuo Li, Stephen T. Quay, Ying Zhou 2018-01-23 $4,886,000
8302049 Method for enabling multiple incompatible or costly timing environment for efficient timing closure Frank J. Musante, Nathaniel D. Hieter, Alexander J. Suess 2012-10-30
7810062 Method for eliminating negative slack in a netlist via transformation and slack categorization James J. Curtin, Jose L. Neves, Douglas S. Search 2010-10-05 $4,341,000
7373615 Method for optimization of logic circuits for routability Victor N. Kravets, Prabhakar Kudva, Andrew J. Sullivan 2008-05-13 $14,751,000
4602271 Personalizable masterslice substrate for semiconductor chips Stuart E. Greer, William J. Nestork, William T. Norris 1986-07-22 $23,573,000
4598470 Method for providing improved electrical and mechanical connection between I/O pin and transverse via substrate Stuart E. Greer, Robert W. Sargent 1986-07-08 $22,430,000
4439813 Thin film discrete decoupling capacitor Irving Feinberg, James N. Humenik, Alan Platt 1984-03-27 $14,476,000
4369154 Process for producing smoother ceramic surfaces 1983-01-18 $31,398,000
4259367 Fine line repair technique 1981-03-31 $16,309,000
4255904 Universal positioning support for grinder wheels 1981-03-17
4202007 Multi-layer dielectric planar structure having an internal conductor pattern characterized with opposite terminations disposed at a common edge surface of the layers Stuart E. Greer 1980-05-06 $13,704,000
4193082 Multi-layer dielectric structure 1980-03-11 $27,944,000