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William E. Earnshaw — 22 Patents

Qualcomm: 9 patents #2,233 of 12,104Top 20%
Intel: 7 patents #5,443 of 30,777Top 20%
ACAtheros Communications: 3 patents #34 of 114Top 30%
MSModular Computer Systems: 2 patents #1 of 12Top 9%
SSStmicroelectronics Sa: 1 patents #3,591 of 1,676Top 215%
HCHisilicon Technologies Co.: 1 patents #2 of 34Top 6%
Panasonic: 1 patents #13,316 of 21,108Top 65%
Fort Lauderdale, FL: #60 of 1,290 inventorsTop 5%
Florida: #2,069 of 67,251 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #189,202 of 4,157,543Top 5%
22 Patents All Time
William E. Earnshaw has been granted 22 US patents while listed as an inventor at Qualcomm. The first was granted in 1990 and the most recent in April 2015. William E. Earnshaw ranks #189,202 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.6%). Patent records list William E. Earnshaw in Fort Lauderdale, FL, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–22 of 22 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9013989 Medium access control layer that encapsulates data from a plurality of received data units into a plurality of independently transmittable blocks Lawrence W. Yonge, III, Srinivas Katar, Stanley J. Kostoff, II, Bart W. Blanchard, Timothy R. Gargrave 2015-04-21 $9,982,000
8964819 Asymmetric mixed-mode powerline communication transceiver Arun Avudainayagam, Syed Adil Hussain, Anthony James Cowan 2015-02-24 $8,767,000
8913629 Managing coexistence on a shared power line medium Lawrence W. Yonge, III, Srinivas Katar, Stefano Galli, Akio Kurobe, Hisao Koga +5 more 2014-12-16
8654635 Medium access control layer that encapsulates data from a plurality of received data units into a plurality of independently transmittable blocks Lawrence W. Yonge, III, Srinivas Katar, Stanley J. Kostoff, II, Bart W. Blanchard, Timothy R. Gargrave 2014-02-18 $13,556,000
8520696 Terminal selection diversity for powerline communications Celestino A. Corral, Gregory Allen Magin, Stanley J. Kostoff, II, John Fraser Chappel, Ehab Tahir +2 more 2013-08-27 $7,643,000
8520683 Managing communications over a shared medium Michael B. Ryan, Maulik R. Bhatt, Stanley J. Kostoff, II, Treina Cresse 2013-08-27 $7,643,000
8295301 Managing coexistence among signaling protocols on a shared medium Lawrence W. Yonge, III, Srinivas Katar, Stefano Galli, Akio Kurobe, Hisao Koga +5 more 2012-10-23 $15,174,000
8149703 Powerline network bridging congestion control Stanley J. Kostoff, II, Brian E. Markwalter, James Philip Patella 2012-04-03 $16,312,000
8090857 Medium access control layer that encapsulates data from a plurality of received data units into a plurality of independently transmittable blocks Lawrence W. Yonge, III, Srinivas Katar, Stanley J. Kostoff, II, Bart W. Blanchard, Timothy R. Gargrave 2012-01-03 $19,514,000
7916746 Media access control protocol with priority and contention-free intervals Lawrence W. Yonge, III, Brian E. Markwalter, Stanley J. Kostoff, II, James Philip Patella 2011-03-29 $27,505,000
7826466 Communication buffer scheme optimized for VoIP, QoS and data networking over a power line James Philip Patella, Stanley J. Kostoff, II, William Williams, Timothy R. Gargrave 2010-11-02 $6,163,000
7715425 Channel adaptation synchronized to periodically varying channel Lawrence W. Yonge, III, Srinivas Katar, Stanley J. Kostoff, II, Bart W. Blanchard, Hassan Kaywan Afkhamie +1 more 2010-05-11 $18,084,000
7623542 Contention-free access intervals on a CSMA network Lawrence W. Yonge, III, Srinivas Katar, Stanley J. Kostoff, II 2009-11-24 $5,319,000
7352770 Media access control protocol with priority and contention-free intervals Lawrence W. Yonge, III, Brian E. Markwalter, Stanley J. Kostoff, II, James Philip Patella 2008-04-01 $1,867,000
7298691 Method and protocol to adapt each unique connection in a multi-node network to a maximum data rate Lawrence W. Yonge, III, Brian E. Markwalter, Stanley J. Kostoff, II, James Philip Patella 2007-11-20
7120847 Powerline network flood control restriction Stanley J. Kostoff, II 2006-10-10
6909723 Segment bursting with priority pre-emption and reduced latency Lawrence W. Yonge, III, Brian E. Markwalter, Stanley J. Kostoff, II, James Philip Patella 2005-06-21
6907044 Method and protocol to support contention-free intervals and QoS in a CSMA network Lawrence W. Yonge, III, Brian E. Markwalter, Stanley J. Kostoff, II, James Philip Patella 2005-06-14
6034988 Spread spectrum apparatus and method for network RF data communications having extended communication channels James E. VanderMey, James Philip Patella, Bart W. Blanchard, Gregory Allen Magin 2000-03-07
5050072 Semaphore memory to reduce common bus contention to global memory with localized semaphores in a multiprocessor system Steven J. McKinney 1991-09-17
4942575 Error connection device for parity protected memory systems Jay Howell, Paul B. Ripy 1990-07-17
4924380 Dual rotating priority arbitration method for a multiprocessor memory bus Steven J. McKinney 1990-05-08