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Bruce A. Smith — 28 Patents

IBM: 24 patents #4,444 of 70,183Top 7%
Honda Motor Co.: 1 patents #12,035 of 21,052Top 60%
TPThe Panda Project: 1 patents #14 of 30Top 50%
LPLenovo (Singapore) Pte.: 1 patents #1,155 of 1,012Top 115%
Austin, TX: #1,113 of 18,064 inventorsTop 7%
Texas: #4,355 of 125,132 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #134,628 of 4,157,543Top 4%
28 Patents All Time
Bruce A. Smith has been granted 28 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1984 and the most recent in January 2021. Bruce A. Smith ranks #134,628 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.2%). Patent records list Bruce A. Smith in Austin, TX, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1984 to 2021Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2012.peak 41984: 1 patents19841988: 1 patents1990: 1 patents19901994: 1 patents1996: 2 patents19961997: 1 patents1998: 1 patents19982000: 1 patents2004: 1 patents20042005: 3 patents2012: 4 patents20122013: 2 patents2015: 2 patents20152016: 4 patents2018: 2 patents20182021: 1 patents2021

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 28 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10897832 Fan control based on a time-variable rate of current Jenseng JS Chen, Jung-Tai Chen, Tsung-Yu Chen, Edward Yu-Chen Kung, Tzongli Lin 2021-01-19 $4,840,000
10149407 Fan control method for a computer system based on a time variable rate of current Jenseng JS Chen, Jung-Tai Chen, Tsung-Yu Chen, Edward Yu-Chen Kung, Tzongli Lin 2018-12-04 $4,080,000
10130007 Fan control system for a computer system based on a time variable rate of current Jenseng JS Chen, Jung-Tai Chen, Tsung-Yu Chen, Edward Yu-Chen Kung, Tzongli Lin 2018-11-13 $2,931,000
9513684 Efficiency adjustments in power supply system Jenseng JS Chen, Jung-Tai Chen, Tzongli Lin, Yu-Chen Lin 2016-12-06 $2,582,000
9348653 Virtual machine management among networked servers Nils Peter Joachim Hansson, Edward S. Suffern, James L. Wooldridge 2016-05-24 $3,942,000
9342373 Virtual machine management among networked servers Nils Peter Joachim Hansson, Edward S. Suffern, James L. Wooldridge 2016-05-17 $3,602,000
9317097 Efficiency adjustments in power supply system Jenseng JS Chen, Jung-Tai Chen, Tzongli Lin, Yu-Chen Lin 2016-04-19 $3,648,000
9003407 Dynamically provisioning virtual machines James J. Bozek, Edward S. Suffern, James L. Wooldridge 2015-04-07 $3,806,000
8963465 Multi-pressure-quantity fan control system and computer system having the same Charlie C C Chiu, Edward YC Kung, Tzongli Lin 2015-02-24
8495208 Migrating virtual machines among networked servers upon detection of degrading network link operation Nils Peter Joachim Hansson, Edward S. Suffern, James L. Wooldridge 2013-07-23 $2,085,000
8352953 Dynamically provisioning virtual machines James J. Bozek, Edward S. Suffern, James L. Wooldridge 2013-01-08 $4,312,000
8341091 Computer system for managing orders for and deliveries of goods Chuck Hamilton, Stephen D. Osborne, Tony E. Gomes, Kathy Howell, Steven M. Bailey +25 more 2012-12-25
8311032 Dynamically provisioning virtual machines Edward S. Suffern, James L. Wooldridge 2012-11-13 $6,514,000
8276139 Provisioning virtual machine placement James J. Bozek, Edward S. Suffern, James L. Wooldridge 2012-09-25 $5,997,000
8224957 Migrating virtual machines among networked servers upon detection of degrading network link operation Nils Peter Joachim Hansson, Edward S. Suffern, James L. Wooldridge 2012-07-17 $11,706,000
6952672 Audio source position detection and audio adjustment 2005-10-04 $13,353,000
6925529 Data storage on a multi-tiered disk system Patrick J. Bohrer, Elmootazbellah Nabil Elnozahy, Charles R. Lefurgy, Ramakrishnan Rajamony 2005-08-02 $7,293,000
6848034 Dense server environment that shares an IDE drive David L. Cohn 2005-01-25 $10,247,000
6792515 System for addressing processors connected to a peripheral bus 2004-09-14 $5,712,000
6092139 Passive backplane capable of being configured to a variable data path width corresponding to a data size of the pluggable CPU board Stanford W. Crane, Jr., Edward Robert Vanderslice 2000-07-18
5765008 Personal computer with riser card PCI and Micro Channel interface Dhruv M. Desai, Robert R. Wolford, Akitoshi Katoh 1998-06-09 $6,285,000
5655106 Personal computer with riser connector for expansion bus and alternate master 1997-08-05 $24,205,000
D377009 Computer cabinet with extending speakers Stanford W. Crane, Jr., Aaron Lown, Jon P. Otis, Richard J. Schneebeli, Jr., Stephen Burks 1996-12-31
5524252 Personal computer system combined with an adapter for networks having varying characteristics, and adapter for coupling a personal computer to such networks Dhruv M. Desai, Lloyd H. Massman 1996-06-04 $9,892,000
5293493 Preemption control for central processor with cache Loc Tien Tran 1994-03-08 $7,931,000