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Robert Maher — 45 Patents

NSNational Semiconductor: 12 patents #138 of 2,238Top 7%
CYCyrix: 9 patents #6 of 51Top 15%
NENetrake: 9 patents #1 of 12Top 9%
HLHunt Energy Enterprises, L.L.C.: 6 patents #11 of 26Top 45%
AUAudiocodes: 4 patents #8 of 45Top 20%
VIVia-Cyrix: 1 patents #11 of 30Top 40%
Plano, TX: #110 of 4,842 inventorsTop 3%
Texas: #2,078 of 125,132 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #64,393 of 4,157,543Top 2%
45 Patents All Time
Robert Maher has been granted 45 US patents while listed as an inventor at National Semiconductor. The first was granted in 1991 and the most recent in July 2024. Robert Maher ranks #64,393 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.5%). Patent records list Robert Maher in Plano, TX, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1991 to 2024Bar chart with a peak of 6 patents in 2006.peak 61991: 2 patents19911992: 1 patents1994: 1 patents1995: 2 patents19951997: 3 patents2000: 1 patents2001: 1 patents20012002: 2 patents2003: 1 patents2004: 3 patents20042005: 4 patents2006: 6 patents2007: 2 patents20072008: 2 patents2009: 1 patents2010: 1 patents20102011: 3 patents2012: 1 patents2014: 1 patents20142015: 2 patents2016: 1 patents2022: 2 patents20222024: 2 patents2024

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 45 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12039558 Distributed energy control Daniel Gregory Price, John Allen, Victor Kuang-en Liu 2024-07-16
11943355 Decentralized system and method for mitigation of climate change Ross E. Freeman, Victor Kuang-en Liu, Mark H. Griffin, John Allen 2024-03-26
11539585 System and method of use of extensible network element software agents for state and network verifications in packet or optical transport networks Abhinava Shivakumar Sadasivarao, Loukas Paraschis, Sharfuddin Syed 2022-12-27
11238474 Distributed energy control Daniel Gregory Price, John Allen, Victor Kuang-en Liu 2022-02-01
9466798 Tunable photoactive compounds Michael D. Irwin, Jerred A. Chute 2016-10-11
9136408 Perovskite and other solar cell materials Michael D. Irwin, Jerred A. Chute, Vivek V. Dhas 2015-09-15
9000294 Tunable photoactive compounds Michael D. Irwin, Vivek V. Dhas, Jerred A. Chute 2015-04-07
8889909 Tunable photoactive compounds Michael D. Irwin, Jerred A. Chute 2014-11-18
8090845 Apparatus and method for firewall traversal Aswinkumar Vishanji Rana, Milton Andre Lie, James Deerman 2012-01-03 $1,910,000
7900075 Pipelined computer system with power management control Raul A. Garibay, Jr., Margaret R. Herubin, Mark Bluhm 2011-03-01 $2,434,000
7900076 Power management method for a pipelined computer system Raul A. Garibay, Jr., Margaret R. Herubin, Mark Bluhm 2011-03-01 $2,434,000
7894432 Apparatus and method creating virtual routing domains in an internet protocol network Ashwin V. Rana, Milton Andre Lie, Robert Harold Walls 2011-02-22 $3,156,000
7782902 Apparatus and method for mapping overlapping internet protocol addresses in layer two tunneling protocols James Deerman, Milton Andre Lie, Aswinkumar Vishanji Rana 2010-08-24 $1,245,000
7509512 Instruction-initiated method for suspending operation of a pipelined data processor Raul A. Garibay, Jr., Margaret R. Herubin, Mark Bluhm 2009-03-24 $3,715,000
7471683 Device for enabling trap and trace of internet protocol communications James Deerman, Milton Andre Lie 2008-12-30 $985,000
7406709 Apparatus and method for allowing peer-to-peer network traffic across enterprise firewalls Aswinkumar Vishanji Rana, Milton Andre Lie, James Deerman 2008-07-29 $2,147,000
7272115 Method and apparatus for enforcing service level agreements James Deerman, Milton Andre Lie, Mark W. Hervin 2007-09-18 $1,042,000
7206313 Apparatus and method for using information in one direction of a bi-directional flow in a network to alter characteristics of the return direction flow James Deerman, Milton Andre Lie 2007-04-17
7120810 Instruction-initiated power management method for a pipelined data processor Raul A. Garibay, Jr., Margaret R. Herubin, Mark Bluhm 2006-10-10 $8,434,000
7062666 Signal-initiated method for suspending operation of a pipelined data processor Raul A. Garibay, Jr., Margaret R. Herubin, Mark Bluhm 2006-06-13 $7,075,000
7058974 Method and apparatus for preventing denial of service attacks Victor Bennett 2006-06-06
7031316 Content processor Aswinkumar Vishanji Rana, Milton Andre Lie, Kevin William Brandon, Mark W. Hervin, Corey Alan Garrow 2006-04-18
7002974 Learning state machine for use in internet protocol networks James Deerman, Aswinkumar Vishanji Rana, Milton Andre Lie, Travis Ernest Strother, Jr., Mark W. Hervin +2 more 2006-02-21
7000132 Signal-initiated power management method for a pipelined data processor Raul A. Garibay, Jr., Margaret R. Herubin, Mark Bluhm 2006-02-14 $7,837,000
6978390 Pipelined data processor with instruction-initiated power management control Raul A. Garibay, Jr., Margaret R. Herubin, Mark Bluhm 2005-12-20 $21,444,000