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Michael L. Gifford — 8 Patents

SCSocket Communications: 5 patents #7 of 19Top 40%
STSandisk Technologies: 2 patents #1,445 of 2,594Top 60%
SMSocket Mobile: 2 patents #15 of 32Top 50%
San Leandro, CA: #77 of 574 inventorsTop 15%
California: #74,834 of 386,348 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #600,572 of 4,157,543Top 15%
8 Patents All Time
Michael L. Gifford has been granted 8 US patents while listed as an inventor at Socket Communications. The first was granted in 2003 and the most recent in June 2010. Michael L. Gifford ranks #600,572 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 14.4%). Patent records list Michael L. Gifford in San Leandro, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2003 to 2010Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2008.peak 22003: 1 patents20032005: 1 patents20052006: 1 patents20062007: 1 patents20072008: 2 patents20082010: 2 patents2010

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–8 of 8 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7735739 Hand scanner cordless adapter John E. Brandon 2010-06-15 $174,000
7680974 Cooperative interconnection and operation of a non-volatile memory card and an input-output card Wesley G. Brewer, Yoram Cedar, Leonard Ott, Robert F. Wallace, Kevin J. Mills +1 more 2010-03-16 $19,492,000
7454541 Removable wireless expansion card having a removable subscriber information module Kevin J. Mills 2008-11-18 $396,000
7343439 Removable modules with external I/O flexibility via an integral second-level removable slot Kevin J. Mills 2008-03-11 $291,000
7194565 Nested removable-removable expansion modules Kevin J. Mills 2007-03-20 $439,000
7107378 Cooperative interconnection and operation of a non-volatile memory card and an input-output card Wesley G. Brewer, Yoram Cedar, Leonard Ott, Robert F. Wallace, Kevin J. Mills +1 more 2006-09-12
6976111 High-density removable expansion module having I/O and second-level removable expansion memory Kevin J. Mills 2005-12-13 $475,000
6599147 High-density removable expansion module having I/O and second-level-removable expansion memory Kevin J. Mills 2003-07-29 $1,855,000