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Eric C. Hill — 5 Patents

Oracle: 5 patents #2,558 of 14,854Top 20%
Palo Alto, CA: #3,748 of 9,675 inventorsTop 40%
California: #107,996 of 386,348 inventorsTop 30%
Overall (All Time): #907,971 of 4,157,543Top 25%
5 Patents All Time
Eric C. Hill has been granted 5 US patents while listed as an inventor at Oracle. The first was granted in 1998 and the most recent in December 2000. Eric C. Hill ranks #907,971 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 21.8%). Patent records list Eric C. Hill in Palo Alto, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1998 to 2000Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 1998.peak 21998: 2 patents19981999: 1 patents19992000: 2 patents2000

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–5 of 5 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
6161121 Generic transfer of exclusive rights Norman Hardy, E. Dean Tribble, Mark S. Miller, John D. Corbett, Christopher T. Hibbert 2000-12-12 $123,675,000
6049838 Persistent distributed capabilities Mark S. Miller, Norman Hardy, E. Dean Tribble, Christopher T. Hibbert 2000-04-11 $160,885,000
5960087 Distributed garbage collection system and method E. Dean Tribble, Mark S. Miller, Norman Hardy, Jacob Y. Levy, Christopher T. Hibbert 1999-09-28 $46,924,000
5852666 Capability security for distributed object systems Mark S. Miller, E. Dean Tribble, Norman Hardy, Christopher T. Hibbert 1998-12-22 $46,178,000
5781633 Capability security for transparent distributed object systems E. Dean Tribble, Mark S. Miller, Norman Hardy, Christopher T. Hibbert 1998-07-14 $24,553,000