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Michael E. Locke — 16 Patents

TITexas Instruments: 6 patents #2,415 of 12,488Top 20%
RSRolm Systems: 2 patents #2 of 38Top 6%
SNSiemens Information And Communication Networks: 2 patents #50 of 240Top 25%
IBM: 2 patents #32,909 of 70,183Top 50%
ALAvago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited: 1 patents #504 of 1,094Top 50%
Broadcom: 1 patents #5,859 of 9,346Top 65%
Santa Clara, CA: #1,055 of 9,301 inventorsTop 15%
California: #37,952 of 386,348 inventorsTop 10%
Overall (All Time): #284,196 of 4,157,543Top 7%
16 Patents All Time
Michael E. Locke has been granted 16 US patents while listed as an inventor at Texas Instruments. The first was granted in 1991 and the most recent in May 2019. Michael E. Locke ranks #284,196 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 6.8%). Patent records list Michael E. Locke in Santa Clara, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1991 to 2019Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 1991.peak 31991: 3 patents19911992: 1 patents1996: 2 patents19962000: 2 patents2003: 1 patents20032006: 1 patents2007: 1 patents20072010: 2 patents2011: 1 patents20112016: 1 patents2019: 1 patents2019

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–16 of 16 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10291785 Data unit retransmission 2019-05-14
9306733 Method of synchronizing a communication system Kevin Zhifang Du, Brian Wiese, Richard Glentworth Greenfield 2016-04-05
7929626 Variable power communications including rapid switching between coding constellations of various sizes 2011-04-19 $5,406,000
7787558 Rapid re-synchronization of communication channels 2010-08-31 $3,848,000
7782930 Optimized short initialization after low power mode for digital subscriber line (DSL) communications 2010-08-24 $6,220,000
7190717 System and method for tone ordering in discrete multi-tone (DMT) modems Channamallesh G. Hiremath, Udayan Dasgupta, Zigang Yang, Umashanker S. Iyer 2007-03-13 $13,003,000
6993099 Communications receiver architectures and algorithms permitting hardware adjustments for optimizing performance Thomas Zogakis, Brian Wiese 2006-01-31 $17,572,000
6598188 Error-corrected codeword configuration and method Kapil Gulati 2003-07-22 $20,451,000
6088126 Fax overflow loopback prevention Joseph F. Khouri, Jeffrey Blohm 2000-07-11
6021178 System and method for detecting types of signals in messaging systems Daniel T. Lai 2000-02-01
5588045 Voice/data transfer method and apparatus utilizing an alternate line 1996-12-24
5528663 DTMF detection for voice processing equipment Morteza Hagh-Panah 1996-06-18
5172406 DTMF signal detection apparatus 1992-12-15
5073941 Multifrequency detection 1991-12-17 $28,648,000
5031218 Redundant message processing and storage Claude Galand, Daniel T. Lai 1991-07-09 $11,976,000
5003573 Self-diagnosis of loop start and ground start trunk interfaces Michael D. Agah 1991-03-26