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Home
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2017
›
IBM
›
Michael J. Spisak
MS
Michael J. Spisak
— 9 Patents in 2017
IBM
:
9
patents
#517
of
10,852
Top 5%
East Northport, NY
:
#2
of
12
inventors
Top 20%
New York
:
#357
of
12,278
inventors
Top 3%
Overall
(2017):
#8,737
of
506,227
Top 2%
9
Patents 2017
Issued Patents
2017
Showing
1–9
of
9
patents
Patent #
Title
Co-Inventors
Date
Approx Value ⓘ
9846768
Relating code with intellectual property assets
Pamela A. Nesbitt
,
Lisa M. Chavez
,
David Bruce Kumhyr
,
Rhonda L. Childress
2017-12-19
$7,368,000
9785477
Providing a policy hierarchy in an enterprise data processing system
Rhonda L. Childress
,
David Bruce Kumhyr
2017-10-10
$2,342,000
9754432
Wireless communication protocol based lock management
Michael Bender
,
Rhonda L. Childress
,
David Bruce Kumhyr
2017-09-05
$2,785,000
9721370
Kinetic sequencer for IoT devices
John Behnken
,
Rhonda L. Childress
,
David Bruce Kumhyr
2017-08-01
$1,638,000
9563913
Luggage contents recommendations and tracking
Michael Bender
,
Rhonda L. Childress
,
David Bruce Kumhyr
2017-02-07
$2,910,000
9563896
Kinetic tracking in manufacturing to predict and prevent defects
Michael Bender
,
Rhonda L. Childress
2017-02-07
$2,910,000
9559920
Management of decommissioned server assets in a shared data environment
Rhonda L. Childress
,
David Bruce Kumhyr
2017-01-31
$3,813,000
9558161
Providing a recovery placeholder within an application
Lisa M. Chavez
,
Rhonda L. Childress
,
David Bruce Kumhyr
2017-01-31
$3,813,000
9535957
Electronic file management based on user affinity
Lisa M. Chambers
,
Rhonda L. Childress
,
David Bruce Kumhyr
2017-01-03
$2,646,000
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