Compaq Honors West Coast Inventors and Patent Holders; Annual Event Created to Recognize Compaq Inventors.CUPERTINO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 28, 1999-- Recognizing the outstanding achievements and contributions to Compaq's Patent Portfolio, Compaq Computer Corporation (company) Compaq Computer Corporation - The largest US manufacturer and vendor of IBM PC compatible personal computers and servers. Compaq was started in 1982 by three ex-Texas Instruments employees. Quarterly sales $2499M, profits $210M (Aug 1994). http://compaq.com/. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CPQ CPQ Compaq CPQ Conseil du Patronat du Québec (Canada) CPQ Configure-Price-Quote CPQ Conseil de Presse du Québec (Québec Press Council, Canada) CPQ Companion Parrot Quarterly ) recently honored its West Coast-based inventors and patent holders at its Inventors Awards Dinner on Sept. 27, 1999. More than 80 employees were honored at the first West Coast event for being granted patents between 1997 and 1998. Special awards for multiple patent holders were given to 12 employees who were awarded a total of 95 patents. "At this event, we celebrated the individuals that have made substantial, and in some cases world-changing, technical contributions to Compaq that represent the creativity and innovation that will drive our company to success in the years to come," said Bob Iannucci, Vice President, Corporate Research for Compaq. Four honorees at the West Coast event were designated key patent holders. A key patent is one that is identified as having particular strategic significance to Compaq. Key patents recognized include the invention of a World Wide Web index and search engine that is the basis of the Alta Vista See AltaVista. (World-Wide Web) Alta Vista - A World-Wide Web site provided by Digital which features a very fast Web and Usenet search engine. As of April 1996 its word index is 33GB in size. search engine. Other key patents recognized include inventions relating to relating to relate prep → concernant relating to relate prep → bezüglich +gen, mit Bezug auf +acc the fundamentals of Superscalar A CPU architecture that allows more than one instruction to be executed in one clock cycle. See pipeline processing. (architecture) superscalar - A superscalar architecture is a uniprocessor that can execute two or more scalar operations in parallel. processor design -- inventions currently used in many microprocessors today. A similar event was held in Houston in July and one is planned for later this year in Boston to honor local inventors. Company-wide, more than 400 Compaq employees were honored for patents received since 1997. About Compaq Compaq Computer Corporation, a Fortune Global 100 company, is the second largest computer company in the world and the largest global supplier of computer systems. Compaq develops and markets hardware, software, solutions and services, including industry-leading enterprise computing Refers to information technology in the larger company. See enterprise data and enterprise networking. solutions, fault-tolerant business-critical solutions, enterprise and network storage solutions, commercial desktop and portable products and consumer PCs. The company is an industry leader in environmentally friendly Environmentally friendly, also referred to as nature friendly, is a term used to refer to goods and services considered to inflict minimal harm on the environment.[1] programs and business practices. Compaq products are sold and supported in more than 100 countries through a network of authorized Compaq marketing partners. Customer support and information about Compaq and its products are available at http://www.compaq.com. Compaq, NonStop, Himalaya, Registered U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Product names mentioned herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective companies. |
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