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Stephen How — 9 Patents

QLQlogic: 3 patents #56 of 242Top 25%
GIGi: 2 patents #3 of 32Top 10%
A(Alcatel Internetworking, (Pe): 1 patents #13 of 39Top 35%
DGDivicom Gmbh: 1 patents #7 of 19Top 40%
GIGeneral Instrument: 1 patents #417 of 950Top 45%
GDGeneral Instrument Corporation Of Delaware: 1 patents #19 of 67Top 30%
Village of La Jolla, CA: #411 of 2,316 inventorsTop 20%
California: #67,547 of 386,348 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #535,341 of 4,157,543Top 15%
9 Patents All Time
Stephen How has been granted 9 US patents while listed as an inventor at Qlogic. The first was granted in 1995 and the most recent in April 2008. Stephen How ranks #535,341 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 12.9%). Patent records list Stephen How in Village of La Jolla, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1995 to 2008Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 1995.peak 31995: 3 patents19951996: 1 patents19961999: 1 patents19992000: 1 patents20002007: 2 patents20072008: 1 patents2008

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–9 of 9 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7362702 Router with routing processors and methods for virtualization William C. Terrell, Tracy Edmonds, Wayland Joeng, Eric Peterson, Jean Kodama +4 more 2008-04-22 $8,300,000
7292567 Router and methods for distributed virtualization William C. Terrell, Tracy Edmonds, Wayland Joeng, Eric Peterson, Jean Kodama +4 more 2007-11-06 $14,620,000
7200144 Router and methods using network addresses for virtualization William C. Terrell, Tracy Edmonds, Wayland Joeng, Eric Peterson, Jean Kodama +4 more 2007-04-03 $14,949,000
6047024 Device for equalizing channel-distorted signals 2000-04-04 $2,833,000
5920572 Transport stream decoder/demultiplexer for hierarchically organized audio-video streams Emanuel Washington, Mike Perkins, Brian Johnson, Nolan Daines, Tom Ayers +1 more 1999-07-06
5511082 Punctured convolutional encoder Chris Heegard 1996-04-23 $23,268,000
5408502 Apparatus and method for communicating digital data using trellis coded QAM with punctured convolutional codes 1995-04-18 $16,504,000
5398237 Acquisition and tracking of independent quadrature modulated bitstreams Mark Eyer, Paul Moroney, Kent Walker, Harris Simon 1995-03-14 $17,542,000
5396518 Apparatus and method for communicating digital data using trellis coding with punctured convolutional codes 1995-03-07 $33,297,000