Patents by Inventor John Anthony Bracchitta

John Anthony Bracchitta has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Intellectual property management method and apparatus
    Patent number: 7630915
    Abstract: An intellectual property management facility for proactively creating, developing and managing an intellectual property portfolio includes: determining available resource capacity for an intellectual property activity in a tracking system; assigning technical attributes to the activity in the tracking system; apportioning resource capacity for the activity by technical attribute based on the value assigned to each of the technical attributes and based on available resource capacity; obtaining actual resource usage by technical attribute from the tracking system; and managing resource allocation for the intellectual property activity by determining the difference between the actual resource usage and the resource allocation by technical attribute.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2009
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: John Anthony Bracchitta, Patricia McGuiness Marmillion, Bernadette Ann Pierson, Henry Charles Rickers, Howard J. Walter, Jr.
  • Intellectual property management method and apparatus
    Patent number: 7089192
    Abstract: An intellectual property management facility for proactively creating, developing and managing an intellectual property portfolio includes: determining available resource capacity for an intellectual property activity in a tracking system; assigning technical attributes to the activity in the tracking system; apportioning resource capacity for the activity by technical attribute based on the value assigned to each of the technical attributes and based on available resource capacity; obtaining actual resource usage by technical attribute from the tracking system; and managing resource allocation for the intellectual property activity by determining the difference between the actual resource usage and the resource allocation by technical attribute.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2006
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: John Anthony Bracchitta, Patricia McGuinness Marmillion, Bernadette Ann Pierson, Henry Charles Rickers, Howard J. Walter, Jr.
  • Soft latch circuit having sharp-cornered hysteresis characteristics
    Patent number: 5949265
    Abstract: A soft latch circuit having a first and second inverter is disclosed. The output of the first inverter is connected to the input of the second inverter, and the output of the second inverter is connected to the input of the first inverter. The first inverter includes a complimentary pair of field-effect transistors (FETs). The second inverter includes either a complimentary pair of current mirrors, or a current mirror and a complimentary FET, the latter providing improved noise immunity characteristics when the soft latch is set in only one direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 7, 1999
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: John Anthony Bracchitta, Michel Salib Michail, Wilbur David Pricer