>
>I have a single patent to my name
><http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=%22International+Business+Machines%22.ASNM.&s2=Norcutt.INNM.&OS=AN/>
>It's assigned to IBM as owner (my employer at the time) but I and my two
>co-inventors are listed as the inventors. I conceived the basic idea,
>Ted Waldron did the really difficult task of implementing it in a real
>system and Khoa Huynh did the performance verification to prove that it
>really worked. But it should be clear that IBM gave credit where due.
>Incidentally, if you read the patent and don't understand it don't be
>concerned. Even though the basic idea was mine I hardly understand the
>language of the patent myself after the patent attorney's got through
>with the wording. :-)
>
I have six, all of which were filed when I was either unemployed or
underemployed, and I paid for them out of my own pocket so that nobody had even
the least amount of claim:
6,140,849
6,172,563
6,242,964
6,271,721
6,393,267
6,400,936
Chris
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