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Kent Bruce Waterson — 7 Patents

NSNational Semiconductor: 7 patents #267 of 2,238Top 15%
Everman, TX: #4 of 10 inventorsTop 40%
Texas: #21,608 of 125,132 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #680,018 of 4,157,543Top 20%
7 Patents All Time
Kent Bruce Waterson has been granted 7 US patents while listed as an inventor at National Semiconductor. The first was granted in 1996 and the most recent in July 2002. Kent Bruce Waterson ranks #680,018 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 16.4%). Patent records list Kent Bruce Waterson in Everman, TX, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1996 to 2002Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 1998.peak 21996: 1 patents19961998: 2 patents19982000: 1 patents20002001: 1 patents20012002: 2 patents2002

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–7 of 7 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
6415343 Apparatus and method for initializing a universal serial bus device David J. Fensore, Gregory Lewis Dean, Robert L. Macomber 2002-07-02 $6,932,000
6353866 Apparatus and method for initializing a universal serial bus device David J. Fensore, Gregory Lewis Dean, Robert L. Macomber 2002-03-05 $16,658,000
6205501 Apparatus and method for handling universal serial bus control transfers David Brief, David J. Fensore, Gregory Lewis Dean 2001-03-20 $31,399,000
6157975 Apparatus and method for providing an interface to a compound Universal Serial Bus controller David Brief 2000-12-05 $16,287,000
5774684 Integrated circuit with multiple functions sharing multiple internal signal buses according to distributed bus access and control arbitration Ralph Haines, Dan O'Neill, Stephen C. Pries, William V. Miller, David Scott Weinman +8 more 1998-06-30 $4,201,000
5754764 Combination of input output circuitry and local area network systems Timothy D. Davis, Roman Baker, Dan E. Daugherty, Martin S. Michael, Ahmed Masood +3 more 1998-05-19 $7,992,000
5541935 Integrated circuit with test signal buses and test control circuits 1996-07-30 $4,540,000