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Dale E. Blue — 35 Patents

IBM: 35 patents #2,786 of 70,183Top 4%
Poughkeepsie, NY: #108 of 1,613 inventorsTop 7%
New York: #3,243 of 115,490 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #96,288 of 4,157,543Top 3%
35 Patents All Time
Dale E. Blue has been granted 35 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 2004 and the most recent in September 2025. Dale E. Blue ranks #96,288 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.3%). Patent records list Dale E. Blue in Poughkeepsie, NY, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2004 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 17 patents in 2021.peak 172004: 1 patents20042009: 1 patents20092011: 1 patents20112013: 2 patents20132014: 1 patents20142021: 17 patents20212022: 6 patents20222023: 5 patents20232025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 35 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12417166 Self diagnosing test suite using a double pair-wise combinatorial test solution Andrew C. M. Hicks, Ryan Thomas Rawlins, Eitan Farchi 2025-09-16
11836060 System testing infrastructure with hidden variable, hidden attribute, and hidden value detection Andrew C. M. Hicks, Kevin Minerley, Ryan Thomas Rawlins, Daniel Nicolas Gisolfi 2023-12-05 $10,759,000
11663113 Real time fault localization using combinatorial test design techniques and test case priority selection Andrew C. M. Hicks, Ryan Thomas Rawlins, Brian Mo 2023-05-30 $4,328,000
11636028 Stress test impact isolation and mapping Andrew C. M. Hicks, Ryan Thomas Rawlins, Jacob Thomas Snyder 2023-04-25 $8,760,000
11609842 System testing infrastructure for analyzing and preventing soft failure in active environment Andrew C. M. Hicks, Ryan Thomas Rawlins, Kevin Minerley 2023-03-21 $41,358,000
11593256 System testing infrastructure for detecting soft failure in active environment Andrew C. M. Hicks, Ryan Thomas Rawlins, Kevin Minerley 2023-02-28 $9,133,000
11436132 Stress test impact isolation and mapping Andrew C. M. Hicks, Ryan Thomas Rawlins, Jacob Thomas Snyder 2022-09-06 $10,660,000
11422924 Customizable test set selection using code flow trees Andrew C. M. Hicks, Ryan Thomas Rawlins 2022-08-23 $8,523,000
11379352 System testing infrastructure with hidden variable, hidden attribute, and hidden value detection Andrew C. M. Hicks, Kevin Minerley, Ryan Thomas Rawlins, Daniel Nicolas Gisolfi 2022-07-05 $7,280,000
11307975 Machine code analysis for identifying software defects Brian Mo, Andrew C. M. Hicks, Ryan Thomas Rawlins 2022-04-19 $6,872,000
11263116 Champion test case generation Andrew C. M. Hicks, Ryan Thomas Rawlins 2022-03-01 $6,542,000
11232020 Fault detection using breakpoint value-based fingerprints of failing regression test cases Andrew C. M. Hicks, Ryan Thomas Rawlins, Steven M. Partlow 2022-01-25 $25,023,000
11204848 System testing infrastructure with hidden variable, hidden attribute, and hidden value detection Andrew C. M. Hicks, Kevin Minerley, Ryan Thomas Rawlins, Daniel Nicolas Gisolfi 2021-12-21 $5,237,000
11194704 System testing infrastructure using combinatorics Andrew C. M. Hicks, Ryan Thomas Rawlins, Jacob Thomas Snyder 2021-12-07 $3,115,000
11194703 System testing infrastructure for analyzing soft failures in active environment Andrew C. M. Hicks, Ryan Thomas Rawlins 2021-12-07 $3,115,000
11188453 Verification of software test quality using hidden variables Andrew C. M. Hicks, Kevin Minerley, Ryan Thomas Rawlins, Daniel Nicolas Gisolfi 2021-11-30 $2,996,000
11176026 Assignment of test case priorities based on combinatorial test design model analysis Andrew C. M. Hicks, Ryan Thomas Rawlins, Brian Mo 2021-11-16 $1,912,000
11132273 System testing infrastructure with hidden variable, hidden attribute, and hidden value detection Andrew C. M. Hicks, Kevin Minerley, Ryan Thomas Rawlins, Daniel Nicolas Gisolfi 2021-09-28 $6,479,000
11113167 System testing infrastructure with hidden variable, hidden attribute, and hidden value detection Andrew C. M. Hicks, Daniel Nicolas Gisolfi, Ryan Thomas Rawlins 2021-09-07 $7,685,000
11106567 Combinatoric set completion through unique test case generation Andrew C. M. Hicks, Ryan Thomas Rawlins, Eitan Farchi 2021-08-31 $6,618,000
11099975 Test space analysis across multiple combinatoric models Andrew C. M. Hicks, Ryan Thomas Rawlins 2021-08-24 $4,861,000
11086768 Identifying false positives in test case failures using combinatorics Andrew C. M. Hicks, Ryan Thomas Rawlins, Brian Mo 2021-08-10 $4,960,000
11036624 Self healing software utilizing regression test fingerprints Andrew C. M. Hicks, Ryan Thomas Rawlins, Rachel Brill, Deborah A. Furman 2021-06-15 $4,393,000
11010285 Fault detection and localization to generate failing test cases using combinatorial test design techniques Andrew C. M. Hicks, Ryan Thomas Rawlins, Rachel Brill 2021-05-18 $4,116,000
11010282 Fault detection and localization using combinatorial test design techniques while adhering to architectural restrictions Andrew C. M. Hicks, Ryan Thomas Rawlins, Rachel Brill 2021-05-18 $4,116,000