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Vinton Coffman — 6 Patents

Intel: 2 patents #13,316 of 30,777Top 45%
DIDiversey: 1 patents #179 of 343Top 55%
TWThe Babcock & Wilcox: 1 patents #416 of 920Top 50%
Pittsburgh, PA: #1,388 of 7,570 inventorsTop 20%
Pennsylvania: #13,718 of 74,527 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #779,687 of 4,157,543Top 20%
6 Patents All Time
Vinton Coffman has been granted 6 US patents while listed as an inventor at Intel. The first was granted in 1997 and the most recent in April 2017. Vinton Coffman ranks #779,687 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 18.8%). Patent records list Vinton Coffman in Pittsburgh, PA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1997 to 2017Bar chart with a peak of 1 patents in 1997.peak 11997: 1 patents19972003: 1 patents20032004: 1 patents20042013: 1 patents20132014: 1 patents20142017: 1 patents2017

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–6 of 6 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
9609991 Methods and systems for movement of an automatic cleaning device using video signal Henry L. Hillman, Jr., David M. Knuth, Jr., Daniel M. Daly, Ralph McCann, Stephen D. Herr +1 more 2017-04-04
8679260 Methods and systems for movement of an automatic cleaning device using video signal Henry L. Hillman, Jr., David M. Knuth, Jr., Daniel M. Daly, Ralph McCann, Stephen D. Herr +1 more 2014-03-25
8423225 Methods and systems for movement of robotic device using video signal Henry L. Hillman, Jr., David M. Knuth, Jr., Daniel M. Daly, Ralph McCann, Stephen D. Herr +1 more 2013-04-16
6760647 Socially interactive autonomous robot Illah Nourbakhsh, Clay Kunz, Carolyn O'Brien, Thomas Willeke 2004-07-06
6539284 Socially interactive autonomous robot Illah Nourbakhsh, Clay Kunz, Carolyn O'Brien, Thomas Willeke 2003-03-25
5689177 Method and apparatus to regulate a voltage controller Michael Hoeg Nielsen, Alan D. Berger 1997-11-18