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Virgil E. Long — 5 Patents

TETekelec: 3 patents #48 of 199Top 25%
SCStentor Resource Centre: 1 patents #9 of 32Top 30%
Raleigh, NC: #1,630 of 6,378 inventorsTop 30%
North Carolina: #10,126 of 45,564 inventorsTop 25%
Overall (All Time): #907,971 of 4,157,543Top 25%
5 Patents All Time
Virgil E. Long has been granted 5 US patents while listed as an inventor at Tekelec. The first was granted in 1999 and the most recent in July 2008. Virgil E. Long ranks #907,971 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 21.8%). Patent records list Virgil E. Long in Raleigh, NC, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1999 to 2008Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 1999.peak 21999: 2 patents19992000: 1 patents20002005: 1 patents20052008: 1 patents2008

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–5 of 5 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7401360 Methods and systems for identifying and mitigating telecommunications network security threats Venkataramaiah Ravishankar, Apirux Bantukul 2008-07-15 $6,912,000
6965592 Distributed signaling system 7 (SS7) message routing gateway Robert John Tinsley, Peter J. Marsico, Lee B. Smith, Gregory Allen Hunt 2005-11-15 $10,163,000
6167129 Method and apparatus for signal mediation in a common channel signaling network Gerald W. Fikis, H. Stewart Patch, Michael J. Mueller, Venkat Ravishankar, Dean D. Glenn +3 more 2000-12-26 $37,327,000
5974052 Frame relay access device and method for transporting SS7 information between signaling points Bruce E. Johnson, Michael J. Mueller, Craig C. Pedersen, Venkataramaiah Ravishankar, Jesse Sherwood 1999-10-26
5953404 Method and system for providing mediated access between signaling networks Gerald W. Fikis, H. Stewart Patch, Michael J. Muelifr, Venkat Ravishankar, Dean D. Glenn +1 more 1999-09-14