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G. William Walster — 29 Patents

Oracle: 29 patents #240 of 14,854Top 2%
Cupertino, CA: #544 of 6,989 inventorsTop 8%
California: #18,137 of 386,348 inventorsTop 5%
Overall (All Time): #127,851 of 4,157,543Top 4%
29 Patents All Time
G. William Walster has been granted 29 US patents while listed as an inventor at Oracle. The first was granted in 2003 and the most recent in November 2007. G. William Walster ranks #127,851 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.1%). Patent records list G. William Walster in Cupertino, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2003 to 2007Bar chart with a peak of 11 patents in 2005.peak 112003: 4 patents20032004: 4 patents20042005: 11 patents20052006: 5 patents20062007: 5 patents2007

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 29 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7296047 Method and apparatus for solving overdetermined systems of interval linear equations Eldon R. Hansen 2007-11-13 $6,703,000
7289122 Method and apparatus for approximating an arbitrary shape with a closed Bezier curve 2007-10-30 $8,948,000
7222145 Method and apparatus for solving systems of equations in fixed-point form Ramon E. Moore 2007-05-22 $14,240,000
7222146 Method and apparatus for facilitating exception-free arithmetic in a computer system Eldon R. Hansen 2007-05-22 $14,240,000
7171343 Computing interval parameter bounds from fallible measurements using systems of nonlinear equations Eldon R. Hansen 2007-01-30 $7,238,000
7099851 Applying term consistency to an equality constrained interval global optimization problem Eldon R. Hansen 2006-08-29 $6,750,000
7062524 Method and apparatus for solving an inequality constrained global optimization problem Eldon R. Hansen 2006-06-13 $5,924,000
7028016 Applying term consistency to the solution of unconstrained interval global optimization problems Eldon R. Hansen 2006-04-11 $6,283,000
7028065 Applying term consistency to an inequality constrained interval global optimization problem Eldon R. Hansen 2006-04-11 $6,283,000
6993548 Method and apparatus for bounding the solution set of a system of linear equations Eldon R. Hansen 2006-01-31 $6,905,000
6976048 Method and apparatus solving problems having interval parameters Eldon R. Hansen 2005-12-13 $5,227,000
6961743 Method and apparatus for solving an equality constrained global optimization problem Eldon R. Hansen 2005-11-01 $4,720,000
6950844 Method and apparatus for solving systems of linear inequalities Eldon R. Hansen 2005-09-27 $6,256,000
6922713 Method and apparatus for solving an unconstrained global optimization problem Eldon R. Hansen 2005-07-26 $12,662,000
6920472 Termination criteria for the interval version of Newton's method for solving systems of non-linear equations Eldon R. Hansen 2005-07-19 $9,116,000
6915320 Termination criteria for the one-dimensional interval version of newton's method Eldon R. Hansen 2005-07-05 $5,994,000
6915321 Method and apparatus for solving systems of nonlinear equations using interval arithmetic Eldon R. Hansen 2005-07-05 $5,994,000
6895574 Method and apparatus for automatically producing efficient code for computing derivatives 2005-05-17 $6,732,000
6895422 Method and apparatus for computing roots of a polynomial equation with interval coefficients Eldon R. Hansen 2005-05-17 $6,732,000
6859817 Solving systems of nonlinear equations using interval arithmetic and term consistency Eldon R. Hansen 2005-02-22 $10,970,000
6842764 Minimum and maximum operations to facilitate interval multiplication and/or interval division 2005-01-11 $9,104,000
6823352 Solving a nonlinear equation through interval arithmetic and term consistency Eldon R. Hansen 2004-11-23 $14,625,000
6779006 Performing dependent subtraction on arithmetic intervals within a computer system Dmitri Chiriaev 2004-08-17 $8,933,000
6751638 Min and max operations for multiplication and/or division under the simple interval system 2004-06-15 $7,959,000
6728953 Selectively enabling expression folding during program compilation 2004-04-27 $10,685,000