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Markus Schäfer — 28 Patents

IBM: 15 patents #7,470 of 70,183Top 15%
WGWirtgen Gmbh: 4 patents #59 of 155Top 40%
AAAudi Ag: 3 patents #476 of 2,982Top 20%
DGDecoma (Germany) Gmbh: 2 patents #4 of 27Top 15%
VTVisteon Global Technologies: 1 patents #779 of 1,929Top 45%
HGHirschmann Electronics Gmbh: 1 patents #20 of 41Top 50%
ANAgfa-Gevaert Nv: 1 patents #972 of 1,819Top 55%
AAAesculap Ag: 1 patents #247 of 481Top 55%
Annaberg-Buchholz, DE: #5 of 173 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #134,628 of 4,157,543Top 4%
28 Patents All Time
Markus Schäfer has been granted 28 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1999 and the most recent in August 2023. Markus Schäfer ranks #134,628 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.2%). Patent records list Markus Schäfer in Annaberg-Buchholz, DE.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 28 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11721362 Tape drive tension management Stefan Wiedemann, Erik Rueger, Robert Beiderbeck, Ole Asmussen 2023-08-08 $10,751,000
11520649 Storage mounting event failure prediction Ole Asmussen, Robert Beiderbeck, Ying Li, Erik Rueger 2022-12-06 $6,201,000
11353100 Differential gear for a motor vehicle Kurt Hornung, Andrej Merz 2022-06-07
11346065 Self-propelled construction machine and method for working ground pavements Stefan Wagner, Markus Bach, Axel Mahlberg, Eduard Fitz 2022-05-31
11324517 Saw blade Uwe Schaz, Uwe Mattes, Elke Moser 2022-05-10
11111640 Self-propelled construction machine Burkhard Frank 2021-09-07
11037588 Increasing tape drive head performance with sectional cleaning using a cartridge memory Stefan Wiedemann, Erik Rueger, Robert Beiderbeck, Ole Asmussen 2021-06-15 $4,393,000
10957356 Data storage tape cartridge Erik Rueger, Stefan Wiedemann, Robert Beiderbeck, Ole Asmussen 2021-03-23 $2,115,000
10896696 Tape drive system with tape surface inspection unit Ole Asmussen, Robert Beiderbeck, Erik Rueger 2021-01-19 $4,840,000
10885938 Tape gripper cartridge cache Stefan Wiedemann, Erik Rueger, Robert Beiderbeck, Ole Asmussen 2021-01-05 $2,293,000
10692524 Magnetic tape drive with a burnishing unit Erik Rueger, Stefan Wiedemann, Robert Beiderbeck, Ole Asmussen 2020-06-23 $2,380,000
10656860 Tape drive library integrated memory deduplication Ole Asmussen, Robert Beiderbeck, Erik Rueger 2020-05-19 $2,035,000
10622016 Tape drive system with tape surface inspection unit Ole Asmussen, Robert Beiderbeck, Erik Rueger 2020-04-14 $1,668,000
10586573 Tape data protection by climate label verification Erik Rueger, Stefan Wiedemann, Robert Beiderbeck, Ole Asmussen 2020-03-10 $1,254,000
10586132 Map and environment based activation of neural networks for highly automated driving Thorsten Wilmer, Martin Pfeifle 2020-03-10 $8,950,000
10472186 Inter-library exchange of a removable medium Erik Rueger, Stefan Wiedemann, Robert Beiderbeck, Ole Asmussen 2019-11-12 $6,929,000
10372681 Tape drive memory deduplication Ole Asmussen, Robert Beiderbeck, Erik Rueger 2019-08-06 $1,880,000
10354686 Magnetic tape drive with a burnishing unit Erik Rueger, Stefan Wiedemann, Robert Beiderbeck, Ole Asmussen 2019-07-16 $4,107,000
10289335 Tape drive library integrated memory deduplication Ole Asmussen, Robert Beiderbeck, Erik Rueger 2019-05-14 $3,761,000
10283924 Method and device for connecting an electrical conductor to an electrical contact part Hans J. Bauer, Hansjörg Wolff 2019-05-07
10109313 Tape drive system with tape surface inspection unit Ole Asmussen, Robert Beiderbeck, Erik Rueger 2018-10-23 $2,704,000
9325135 Device for connecting an electrical connector to an electrical contact part Hans J. Bauer, Georg Seitz, Hans-Peter Fink, Werner O. Haag 2016-04-26
9077135 Bush fitting machine Hansjörg Wolff 2015-07-07
8118316 Operational methods for a road-building machine Christian Berning, Dieter Simons 2012-02-21
7828309 Road-building machine Christian Berning, Dieter Simons 2010-11-09