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Robert A. Kohtz — 27 Patents

ZSZenith Data Systems: 9 patents #2 of 84Top 3%
HPHand Held Products: 8 patents #111 of 724Top 20%
PNPackard Bell Nec: 6 patents #5 of 93Top 6%
IIIntermec Ip: 3 patents #95 of 391Top 25%
Nec: 1 patents #7,928 of 14,502Top 55%
Cedar Rapids, IA: #56 of 1,358 inventorsTop 5%
Iowa: #369 of 15,303 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #142,059 of 4,157,543Top 4%
27 Patents All Time
Robert A. Kohtz has been granted 27 US patents while listed as an inventor at Zenith Data Systems. The first was granted in 1990 and the most recent in September 2024. Robert A. Kohtz ranks #142,059 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.4%). Patent records list Robert A. Kohtz in Cedar Rapids, IA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1990 to 2024Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 1997.peak 41990: 1 patents19901991: 1 patents1992: 1 patents19921994: 2 patents1996: 1 patents19961997: 4 patents1998: 2 patents19981999: 3 patents2000: 1 patents20002008: 2 patents2015: 1 patents20152017: 1 patents2018: 2 patents20182019: 1 patents2020: 2 patents20202022: 1 patents2024: 1 patents2024

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 27 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12085621 Methods for estimating a number of workflow cycles able to be completed from a remaining battery capacity Rickey G. Austin 2024-09-10
11428744 Methods for estimating a number of workflow cycles able to be completed from a remaining battery capacity Rickey G. Austin 2022-08-30
10791213 Managing energy usage in mobile devices Mark Howe, Thomas Schuster 2020-09-29
10732226 Methods for estimating a number of workflow cycles able to be completed from a remaining battery capacity Rickey G. Austin 2020-08-04
10331609 System for exchanging information between wireless peripherals and back-end systems via a peripheral hub Ryan McMahan, Jason Schoon 2019-06-25
10097681 Managing energy usage in mobile devices Mark Howe, Rickey G. Austin 2018-10-09
9990784 Dynamic identification badge Ryan McMahan, Jason Schoon, Eric P. Mielke 2018-06-05
9852102 System for exchanging information between wireless peripherals and back-end systems via a peripheral hub Ryan McMahan, Jason Schoon 2017-12-26
9088281 Trigger device for mobile computing device Rickey G. Austin, Joseph Cook 2015-07-21
7451931 Detecting barcodes on two-dimensional images using frequency domain data Michael Dant 2008-11-18 $3,739,000
7392951 Methods, apparatuses and articles for automatic data collection devices, for example barcode readers, in cluttered environments Jim Ray, Michael Dant, Jeffrey Mark Hunt 2008-07-01 $5,647,000
6161162 Multiprocessor system for enabling shared access to a memory David T. DeRoo, Mark D. Nicol, David J. DeLisle, Richard Ball, Saifuddin Fakhruddin +2 more 2000-12-12 $91,000
6009495 Protected address range in an electrically erasable programmable read only memory David T. DeRoo, Mark D. Nicol, David J. DeLisle, Saifuddin Fakhruddin, Lloyd W. Gauthier 1999-12-28 $27,000
5872967 Method for warm boot from reset David T. DeRoo, Mark D. Nicol, David J. DeLisle, Michael P. Krau, Saifuddin Fakhruddin +1 more 1999-02-16 $19,000
5867655 Method to store privileged data within the primary CPU memory space David T. DeRoo, Mark D. Nicol, David J. DeLisle, Michael P. Krau, Saifuddin Fakhruddin +1 more 1999-02-02 $22,000
5822601 Apparatus to allow a CPU to control the relocation of code blocks for other CPUs David T. DeRoo, Mark D. Nicol, David J. DeLisle, Saifuddin Fakhruddin, Lloyd W. Gauthier 1998-10-13 $9,000
5752063 Write inhibited registers David T. DeRoo, Mark D. Nicol, David J. DeLisle, Michael P. Krau, Saifuddin Fakhruddin +1 more 1998-05-12 $12,000
5696987 Hardware based interface for emulation of a standard system control processor David J. DeLisle, Saifuddin Fakhruddin, Lloyd W. Gauthier 1997-12-09 $17,000
5636348 Control system for a multiple mode standard parallel port for a personal computer Clark L. Buxton 1997-06-03 $7,314,000
RE35480 Hardware based interface for mode switching to access memory above one megabyte David J. DeLisle, Saifuddin Fakhruddin, Lloyd W. Gauthier 1997-03-18
5596713 Method to prevent data loss in an electrically erasable read only memory David T. DeRoo, Mark D. Nicol, David J. DeLisle, Saifuddin Fakhruddin, Lloyd W. Gauthier 1997-01-21 $10,075,000
5498971 Method and control circuit for measuring the temperature of an integrated circuit Robert R. Turnbull, David J. DeLisle 1996-03-12 $4,008,000
5291588 Control system and method for multiple rate disk drive data transfer with a single oscillator Mark D. Nicol 1994-03-01 $1,269,000
5283889 Hardware based interface for mode switching to access memory above one megabyte David J. DeLisle, Saifee Fakhruddin, Lloyd W. Gauthier 1994-02-01 $1,811,000
5123092 External expansion bus interface Clark L. Buxton, Saifee Fakruddin, Mark J. Foster, Jeff Schindler 1992-06-16 $2,458,000