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Herwig Elfering — 11 Patents

IBM: 11 patents #10,022 of 70,183Top 15%
Eppelheim, DE: #78 of 568 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #435,149 of 4,157,543Top 15%
11 Patents All Time
Herwig Elfering has been granted 11 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 2004 and the most recent in July 2021. Herwig Elfering ranks #435,149 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 10.5%). Patent records list Herwig Elfering in Eppelheim, DE.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2004 to 2021Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2015.peak 42004: 1 patents20042006: 1 patents20062009: 1 patents20092010: 1 patents20102015: 4 patents20152018: 1 patents20182020: 1 patents20202021: 1 patents2021

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–11 of 11 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11061666 Distributing computing tasks to individual computer systems Thomas Pohl, Martin Tröster, Angel Nunez Mencias, Jakob C. Lang 2021-07-13 $4,436,000
10552190 Precise error injection for driver testing Thomas Glaesser, Karlo Petri, Bernd Simmet 2020-02-04 $2,135,000
9971783 Data de-duplication for disk image files Dirk Bolte, Susanne Friedhilde Heisser, Juergen Nowak, Thomas Pohl, Martin Troester 2018-05-15 $2,944,000
9195488 Image deployment in a cloud environment Dirk Bolte, Thomas Pohl, Martin Troester 2015-11-24 $3,572,000
9195489 Image deployment in a cloud environment Dirk Bolte, Thomas Pohl, Martin Troester 2015-11-24 $3,572,000
9081787 Customizable file-type aware cache mechanism Dirk Bolte, Thomas Pohl, Martin Troester 2015-07-14 $7,900,000
9081788 Customizable file-type aware cache mechanism Dirk Bolte, Thomas Pohl, Martin Troester 2015-07-14 $7,900,000
7725612 Method and system for personalized I/O device initialization Janko Boehm, Thomas Hess, Daniel Metz 2010-05-25 $4,007,000
7624318 Method and apparatus for automatically identifying multiple combinations of operational and non-operational components on integrated circuit chips with a single part number Andreas Bieswanger, James Stephen Fields, Jr., Andrew Geissler, Alan Hlava, Scott Barnett Swaney 2009-11-24 $13,674,000
7085967 Method and apparatus for formatting vital component data in a field replaceable unit of a computer system Fritz Freier, Stephen Igel, David Otto Lewis 2006-08-01 $2,070,000
6760839 Automatic application restart in an embedded environment Janko Boehm, Thomas Hess, Daniel Metz 2004-07-06 $6,814,000