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William Proulx — 4 Patents

NENetapp: 4 patents #664 of 1,969Top 35%
Sanbornville, NH: #2 of 6 inventorsTop 35%
New Hampshire: #3,425 of 12,181 inventorsTop 30%
Overall (All Time): #1,080,739 of 4,157,543Top 30%
4 Patents All Time
William Proulx has been granted 4 US patents while listed as an inventor at Netapp. The first was granted in 2007 and the most recent in June 2010. William Proulx ranks #1,080,739 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 26.0%). Patent records list William Proulx in Sanbornville, NH, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2007 to 2010Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2007.peak 22007: 2 patents20072008: 1 patents20082010: 1 patents2010

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–4 of 4 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7742489 Multi-protocol network interface card Stephen R. Chinn, Gene M. Ciancaglini, Michael M. Garofalo, James A. Hart, Michael Lupinacci +7 more 2010-06-22 $16,006,000
7406029 Fault tolerant optical data communication network having auto discovery Gene M. Ciancaglini, Michael M. Garofalo, James A. Hart, Steven Lumetta, Muriel Medard +4 more 2008-07-29 $24,050,000
7289499 Integrated system and method for controlling telecommunication network data communicated over a local area network and storage data communicated over a storage area network Stephen R. Chinn, Gene M. Ciancaglini, Michael M. Garofalo, James A. Hart, Steven Lumetta +9 more 2007-10-30 $47,494,000
7239642 Multi-protocol network interface card Stephen R. Chinn, Gene M. Ciancaglini, Michael M. Garofalo, James A. Hart, Michael Lupinacci +7 more 2007-07-03 $77,168,000