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Eric R. Kern — 108 Patents

IBM: 90 patents #685 of 70,183Top 1%
LPLenovo (Singapore) Pte.: 11 patents #221 of 1,301Top 20%
LSLenovo Global Technology (United States): 3 patents #9 of 83Top 15%
LPLenovo Pte.: 3 patents #3 of 75Top 4%
Chapel Hill, NC: #11 of 1,999 inventorsTop 1%
North Carolina: #131 of 45,564 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #12,416 of 4,157,543Top 1%
108 Patents All Time
Eric R. Kern has been granted 108 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 2000 and the most recent in October 2025. Eric R. Kern ranks #12,416 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.30%). Patent records list Eric R. Kern in Chapel Hill, NC, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 108 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12438886 Preventing unregistered electronic devices from accessing a secure area Paola Martinez Morales, Drew S. Johnson, Christopher K. Scullion 2025-10-07
12414274 Measuring utilization to adjust water flow for cooling of servers and server components Paola Martinez Morales, Jerrod K. Buterbaugh, Florin Cazacu, Fadel Matar 2025-09-09
12354141 Allocation metering for virtual machines and containers Robert Furda, Brian E. Finley, Firoz Rangwalla, Paola Martinez Morales, Asmaa El Andaloussi 2025-07-08
11954693 Dynamic test suite creation using event communications from customers Paola Martinez Morales, Robert Furda, Asmaa El Andaloussi, Firoz Rangwalla, Brian E. Finley 2024-04-09
11949523 Data storage metering and billing Brian E. Finley, Robert Furda, Asmaa El Andaloussi, Paola Martinez Morales 2024-04-02
11734099 Correlating server power and server utilization for deriving billing from power consumption data James Patrick Sigmon 2023-08-22
11461161 Using server power to predict failures James Patrick Sigmon 2022-10-04
9476929 Propagating pin corrections through physically mating devices Keith M. Campbell, Caroline M. Metry 2016-10-25
9367362 Administration of virtual machine affinity in a cloud computing environment 2016-06-14 $6,457,000
9288147 Dynamically balancing resources in a server farm William G. Pagan 2016-03-15 $3,165,000
9003007 Administration of virtual machine affinity in a data center 2015-04-07 $3,806,000
8958784 Telephone call co-processing in for mobile telephones Jordan Chin, Luke D. Remis, Sarah E. Smith, Timothy M. Wiwel 2015-02-17 $5,211,000
8898416 Storage allocation management in switches utilizing flow control William E. Atherton, Marcus A. Baker 2014-11-25 $4,405,000
8868628 Sharing computer data among computers Shane Lardinois 2014-10-21 $3,429,000
8862709 Remote management of boot application Daryl Cromer, Richard A. Dayan, Joseph Wayne Freeman, Steven Dale Goodman, Howard Locker +1 more 2014-10-14 $3,785,000
8839339 Blade center KVM distribution Gerhard Nikolaus Buckler, Johnny Nieves 2014-09-16 $3,547,000
8769812 Propagating pin corrections through physically mating devices Keith M. Campbell, Caroline M. Metry 2014-07-08 $4,236,000
8677117 Remote management of boot application Daryl Cromer, Richard A. Dayan, Joseph Wayne Freeman, Steven Dale Goodman, Howard Locker +1 more 2014-03-18 $3,993,000
8572612 Autonomic scaling of virtual machines in a cloud computing environment 2013-10-29 $6,299,000
8458324 Dynamically balancing resources in a server farm William G. Pagan 2013-06-04 $4,195,000
8380826 Migrating port-specific operating parameters during blade server failover Gregory W. Dake, Andrew B. McNeill, Jr., Norman C. Strole, Theodore B. Vojnovich 2013-02-19 $3,959,000
8255508 Administration of virtual machine affinity in a data center 2012-08-28 $8,752,000
8214467 Migrating port-specific operating parameters during blade server failover Gregory W. Dake, Andrew B. McNeill, Jr., Norman C. Strole, Theodore B. Vojnovich 2012-07-03 $4,930,000
8108503 Dynamic load balancing between chassis in a blade center William G. Pagan 2012-01-31 $4,013,000
8103993 Structure for dynamically allocating lanes to a plurality of PCI express connectors William E. Atherton, Marcus A. Baker 2012-01-24 $7,514,000