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Bob Mitchell — 15 Patents

NINational Instruments: 11 patents #55 of 690Top 8%
LSLitton Systems: 1 patents #380 of 838Top 50%
Lenoir, NC: #9 of 96 inventorsTop 10%
North Carolina: #3,282 of 45,564 inventorsTop 8%
Overall (All Time): #307,048 of 4,157,543Top 8%
15 Patents All Time
Bob Mitchell has been granted 15 US patents while listed as an inventor at National Instruments. The first was granted in 1996 and the most recent in July 2002. Bob Mitchell ranks #307,048 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 7.4%). Patent records list Bob Mitchell in Lenoir, NC, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1996 to 2002Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 1998.peak 51996: 3 patents19961997: 3 patents19971998: 5 patents19981999: 1 patents19992000: 1 patents20002002: 2 patents2002

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–15 of 15 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
6425033 System and method for connecting peripheral buses through a serial bus Craig M. Conway, Kevin L. Schultz, B. Keith Odom, Glen Sescila, Ross Sabolcik +1 more 2002-07-23 $12,373,000
6418504 System and method for coupling peripheral buses through a serial bus using a split bridge implementation Craig M. Conway, Kevin L. Schultz, B. Keith Odom, Glen Sescila, Ross Sabolcik +1 more 2002-07-09 $6,739,000
6080994 High output reflective optical correlator having a folded optical axis using ferro-electric liquid crystal spatial light modulators David T. Carrott, Barry Dydyk, James P. Karins, John Lucas, Stuart A. Mills 2000-06-27 $10,941,000
5995376 Chassis which includes configurable slot 0 locations Kevin L. Schultz, David Dorr, Timothy Lynn Moor 1999-11-30 $17,629,000
5850571 System and method for converting read cycles into write cycles for improved system performance Brian Keith Odom, Nigel Waites, Pratik M. Mehta, Robert Canik 1998-12-15 $6,924,000
5847955 System and method for controlling an instrumentation system Hugo Andrade, Jogen Pathak, Samson DeKey, Abhay Shah, Todd Brower 1998-12-08 $6,872,000
5724272 Method and apparatus for controlling an instrumentation system Hugo Andrade, Jogen Pathak, Samson DeKey, Abhay Shah, Todd Brower 1998-03-03 $11,482,000
5717614 System and method for handling events in an instrumentation system Abhay Shah, Jogen Pathak, Hugo Andrade, Samson DeKey, Todd Brower 1998-02-10 $9,263,000
5710727 System and method for creating resources in an instrumentation system Hugo Andrade, Jogen Pathak, Samson DeKey, Abhay Shah, Todd Brower 1998-01-20 $8,757,000
5686917 System and method for demultiplexing data in an instrumentation system Brian Keith Odom 1997-11-11 $9,177,000
5659749 System and method for performing efficient hardware context switching in an instrumentation system Brian Keith Odom 1997-08-19 $8,431,000
5627998 System and method for mapping calls to functions in a first driver level library to a session-based instrumentation control driver level system Dan Mondrik 1997-05-06 $5,923,000
D369045 Table 1996-04-23
D368190 Table 1996-03-26
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