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Dirk Westhoff — 7 Patents

Nec: 5 patents #2,841 of 14,502Top 20%
NENec Europe: 2 patents #32 of 106Top 35%
Heidelberg, DE: #296 of 2,101 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #680,018 of 4,157,543Top 20%
7 Patents All Time
Dirk Westhoff has been granted 7 US patents while listed as an inventor at Nec. The first was granted in 2008 and the most recent in August 2013. Dirk Westhoff ranks #680,018 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 16.4%). Patent records list Dirk Westhoff in Heidelberg, DE.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2008 to 2013Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2011.peak 22008: 1 patents20082009: 1 patents20092010: 1 patents20102011: 2 patents20112012: 1 patents20122013: 1 patents2013

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–7 of 7 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
8510550 Method for managing data in a wireless sensor network Joao Girao, Einar Mykletun 2013-08-13
8295491 Method for aggregating data in a network Frederik Armknecht, Joao Girao 2012-10-23
8024573 Method for authentication of elements of a group Joao Girao 2011-09-20
7907548 Method for electing aggregator nodes in a network Frederik Armknecht 2011-03-15
7702905 Method for distributing keys for encrypted data transmission in a preferably wireless sensor network Joao Girao, Mithun P. Acharya 2010-04-20
7609838 Method of transmitting data in a network Joao Girao 2009-10-27
7343489 Low cost packet originator verification for intermediate nodes Bernd Lamparter 2008-03-11