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James L. Apple — 6 Patents

STStorage Technology: 6 patents #78 of 682Top 15%
Nederland, CO: #33 of 124 inventorsTop 30%
Colorado: #7,724 of 40,980 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #779,687 of 4,157,543Top 20%
6 Patents All Time
James L. Apple has been granted 6 US patents while listed as an inventor at Storage Technology. The first was granted in 1985 and the most recent in December 2000. James L. Apple ranks #779,687 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 18.8%). Patent records list James L. Apple in Nederland, CO, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–6 of 6 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
6158942 Tape cartridge access port Roger H. Grow 2000-12-12 $8,496,000
6011669 Pass thru mechanism for transferring magnetic tape cartridges between automated cartridge library systems Paul Kummli, Arthur Francis Fry 2000-01-04 $25,999,000
5278708 Single tape cartridge access port Ronald L. Campbell 1994-01-11 $6,587,000
5258882 Single tape cartridge access port Ronald L. Campbell 1993-11-02 $16,611,000
5247406 Tape cartridge magazine Ronald L. Campbell, Paul Kummli 1993-09-21 $8,768,000
4550884 Tape drive having swing arm buffers and automatic threading Ronald Permut, Robert Cope, August P. Epina, Frederick G. Munro 1985-11-05 $672,000