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Thomas Kirk — 23 Patents

ATAT&T: 16 patents #1,060 of 18,772Top 6%
NONordson: 5 patents #193 of 1,063Top 20%
Ncr: 2 patents #1,435 of 3,019Top 50%
Hastings, MN: #8 of 173 inventorsTop 5%
Minnesota: #2,936 of 52,454 inventorsTop 6%
Overall (All Time): #178,160 of 4,157,543Top 5%
23 Patents All Time
Thomas Kirk has been granted 23 US patents while listed as an inventor at AT&T. The first was granted in 1997 and the most recent in December 2025. Thomas Kirk ranks #178,160 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.3%). Patent records list Thomas Kirk in Hastings, MN, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1997 to 2023Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2019.peak 31997: 2 patents19971998: 2 patents2001: 1 patents20012014: 1 patents2015: 1 patents20152017: 2 patents2018: 2 patents20182019: 3 patents2020: 3 patents20202021: 1 patents2022: 1 patents20222023: 3 patents2023

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–23 of 23 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12488369 Dynamic machine-readable codes Thomas Killian, Christopher Rice 2025-12-02
11784877 Systems and methods to control operation of virtualized networks David Crawford Gibbon, Behzad Shahraray, John F. Murray, Mazin Gilbert 2023-10-10 $133,546,000
11615425 Method and apparatus for autonomous services composition Rittwik Jana, Syed Anwar Aftab, John F. Murray, Mazin Gilbert, Shu Shi +2 more 2023-03-28 $80,531,000
11595254 Systems and methods to control operation of virtualized networks David Crawford Gibbon, Behzad Shahraray, John F. Murray, Mazin Gilbert 2023-02-28 $32,028,000
11222343 Method and apparatus for autonomous services composition Rittwik Jana, Syed Anwar Aftab, John F. Murray, Mazin Gilbert, Shu Shi +2 more 2022-01-11 $72,293,000
11188938 Dynamic machine-readable codes Thomas Killian, Christopher W. Rice 2021-11-30 $29,619,000
10846706 Method and apparatus for autonomous services composition Rittwik Jana, Syed Anwar Aftab, John F. Murray, Mazin Gilbert, Shu Shi +2 more 2020-11-24 $87,605,000
10812329 Systems and methods to control operation of virtualized networks David Crawford Gibbon, Behzad Shahraray, John F. Murray, Mazin Gilbert 2020-10-20 $20,559,000
10580013 Method and apparatus for autonomous services composition Rittwik Jana, Syed Anwar Aftab, John F. Murray, Mazin Gilbert, Shu Shi +2 more 2020-03-03 $34,224,000
10515119 Sequential recommender system for virtualized network services Rittwik Jana, Mazin Gilbert, John F. Murray, Tan Xu 2019-12-24 $53,929,000
10413683 Device and method for discharging a reactive liquid Bradley D. Robb, Todd W. Sharratt 2019-09-17 $36,842,000
10325282 Dynamic machine-readable codes Thomas Killian, Christopher W. Rice 2019-06-18 $64,333,000
10037536 Method and apparatus for autonomous services composition Rittwik Jana, Syed Anwar Aftab, John F. Murray, Mazin Gilbert, Shu Shi +2 more 2018-07-31 $87,023,000
9925305 Apparatus and method for hydrating a particulate biomaterial with a liquid biomaterial Benjamin B. Anderson, Kevin C. Geppert, Huadong Lou, Mark Stevenson 2018-03-27 $11,387,000
9707319 Device and method for improving hydration of a biomaterial Kevin C. Geppert 2017-07-18 $11,573,000
9592321 Apparatus and method for hydrating a particulate biomaterial with a liquid biomaterial Benjamin B. Anderson, Kevin C. Geppert, Huadong Lou, Mark Stevenson 2017-03-14 $41,365,000
9174001 Device and method for discharging a reactive liquid Bradley D. Robb, Todd W. Sharratt 2015-11-03 $8,051,000
8862582 System and method of organizing images Charles Douglas Blewett, Enrico Bocchieri, Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, Donnie Henderson, Thomas Killian +2 more 2014-10-14 $15,819,000
6175842 System and method for providing dynamic three-dimensional multi-user virtual spaces in synchrony with hypertext browsing Peter Gilman Selfridge 2001-01-16
5806060 Interactive data analysis employing a knowledge base Alexander Tiberiu Borgida, Ronald J. Brachman, Peter Gilman Selfridge, Loren Gilbert Terveen 1998-09-08 $9,611,000
5768578 User interface for information retrieval system Alon Levy 1998-06-16 $23,386,000
5659724 Interactive data analysis apparatus employing a knowledge base Alexander Tiberiu Borgida, Ronald J. Brachman, Peter Gilman Selfridge, Loren Gilbert Terveen 1997-08-19 $14,472,000
5655116 Apparatus and methods for retrieving information Alon Levy, Divesh Srivastava 1997-08-05 $29,387,000