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W. Thomas Blank — 3 Patents

MCMaspar Computer: 3 patents #4 of 14Top 30%
Palo Alto, CA: #4,891 of 9,675 inventorsTop 55%
California: #150,760 of 386,348 inventorsTop 40%
Overall (All Time): #1,328,092 of 4,157,543Top 35%
3 Patents All Time
W. Thomas Blank has been granted 3 US patents while listed as an inventor at Maspar Computer. The first was granted in 1994 and the most recent in January 1997. W. Thomas Blank ranks #1,328,092 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 31.9%). Patent records list W. Thomas Blank in Palo Alto, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1994 to 1997Bar chart with a peak of 1 patents in 1994.peak 11994: 1 patents19941996: 1 patents19961997: 1 patents1997

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–3 of 3 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
5598408 Scalable processor to processor and processor to I/O interconnection network and method for parallel processing arrays John R. Nickolls, John Zapisek, Won Kim, Jeffrey C. Kalb, Jr., Eliot Leonard Wegbreit +1 more 1997-01-28
5581777 Parallel processor memory transfer system using parallel transfers between processors and staging registers and sequential transfers between staging registers and memory Won Kim, David M. Bulfer, John R. Nickolls, Hannes Figel 1996-12-03
5280474 Scalable processor to processor and processor-to-I/O interconnection network and method for parallel processing arrays John R. Nickolls, John Zapisek, Won Kim, Jeffery C. Kalb, Eliot Leonard Wegbreit +1 more 1994-01-18