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Tom Black — 16 Patents

SWSimple Works: 11 patents #1 of 4Top 25%
Cisco: 2 patents #5,546 of 13,007Top 45%
Libertyville, IL: #101 of 868 inventorsTop 15%
Illinois: #5,176 of 84,256 inventorsTop 7%
Overall (All Time): #284,196 of 4,157,543Top 7%
16 Patents All Time
Tom Black has been granted 16 US patents while listed as an inventor at Simple Works. The first was granted in 2003 and the most recent in July 2020. Tom Black ranks #284,196 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 6.8%). Patent records list Tom Black in Libertyville, IL, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2003 to 2020Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2015.peak 22003: 1 patents20032007: 1 patents2009: 1 patents20092012: 1 patents2013: 1 patents20132015: 2 patents2016: 2 patents20162017: 1 patents2018: 2 patents20182019: 2 patents2020: 2 patents2020

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–16 of 16 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10715248 System and method for communicating over an 802.15.4 network Dale Mason, Robert Schneider, Paul Bricketto 2020-07-14
10547376 System and method for communicating over an 802.15.4 network Dale Mason, Robert Schneider, Paul Bricketto 2020-01-28
10382122 System and method for communicating over an 802.15.4 network Dale Mason, Robert Schneider, Paul Bricketto 2019-08-13
10205515 System and method for communicating over an 802.15.4 network Dale Mason, Robert Schneider, Paul Bricketto 2019-02-12
10069561 System and method for communicating over an 802.15.4 network Dale Mason, Robert Schneider, Paul Bricketto 2018-09-04
9948382 System and method for communicating over an 802.15.4 network Dale Mason, Robert Schneider, Paul Bricketto 2018-04-17
9806796 System and method for communicating over an 802.15.4 network Dale Mason, Robert Schneider, Paul Bricketto 2017-10-31
9461735 System and method for communicating over an 802.15.4 network Dale Mason, Robert Schneider, Paul Bricketto 2016-10-04
9319459 Services controlled session based flow interceptor Arivu Ramasamy, Jim P. Ervin, Martin Cieslak, Zach Seils, Venkataraman Anand 2016-04-19 $24,878,000
9130866 Transparent flow based application navigator Jim P. Ervin, Arivu Ramasamy, Venkataraman Anand, Scott Alexander, Steven Rempe 2015-09-08 $28,347,000
8976767 System and method for communicating over an 802.15.4 network Dale Mason, Robert Schneider, Paul Bricketto 2015-03-10
8358639 System and method for communicating over an 802.15.4 network Dale Mason, Robert Schneider, Paul Bricketto 2013-01-22
8172578 Systems, program products, and methods of organizing and managing curriculum information Elizabeth Clark, John Mathis, David Lambson, Linda Helbach, Darla Pollard +1 more 2012-05-08
7636340 System and method for communicating over an 802.15.4 network Dale Mason, Robert Schneider, Paul Bricketto 2009-12-22
D554009 Grade leveling device for placement atop a ground stake — 2007-10-30
6508006 Apparatus for producing a horizontal foundation for a masonry wall — 2003-01-21

Frequent Collaborators

Robert Schneider11 shared
Paul Bricketto11 shared
Dale Mason11 shared
Arivu Ramasamy2 shared
Jim P. Ervin2 shared
Venkataraman Anand2 shared

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