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Michael D. Elder — 40 Patents

IBM: 40 patents #2,353 of 70,183Top 4%
Durham, NC: #79 of 4,103 inventorsTop 2%
North Carolina: #831 of 45,564 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #78,057 of 4,157,543Top 2%
40 Patents All Time
Michael D. Elder has been granted 40 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 2006 and the most recent in March 2023. Michael D. Elder ranks #78,057 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.9%). Patent records list Michael D. Elder in Durham, NC, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 40 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11599768 Cooperative neural network for recommending next user action Kai Niu, Jiali Huang, Christopher Doan 2023-03-07 $13,230,000
11086661 Container chaining for automated process completion Geoffrey W. Corey, Michael McKay, Daniel D. K. Stratton 2021-08-10 $4,960,000
10628128 Discovery and modeling of deployment actions for multiple deployment engine providers Daniel C. Berg, Yulia Gaponenko, Indrajit Poddar, Yuri Pravosud 2020-04-21 $2,793,000
10623248 Assessing computing environment changes using specification documents Saurabh Agarwal, Steven P. Barbieri, Brad L. Blancett, Chad M. Holliday, John A. Page +2 more 2020-04-14 $1,668,000
10387199 Container chaining for automated process completion Geoffrey W. Corey, Michael McKay, Daniel D. K. Stratton 2019-08-20 $1,949,000
10135680 Assessing computing environment changes using specification documents Saurabh Agarwal, Steven P. Barbieri, Brad L. Blancett, Chad M. Holliday, John A. Page +2 more 2018-11-20 $2,951,000
9996223 Displaying a contextual organization chart with awareness Marijane Zeller, Oliver Heinz, Andrew L. Schirmer 2018-06-12 $1,886,000
9977653 Discovery and modeling of deployment actions for multiple deployment engine providers Indrajit Poddar, Daniel C. Berg, Yulia Gaponenko, Yuri Pravosud 2018-05-22 $7,737,000
9940103 Discovery and modeling of deployment actions for multiple deployment engine providers Daniel C. Berg, Yulia Gaponenko, Indrajit Poddar, Yuri Pravosud 2018-04-10 $2,135,000
9921826 Visualizing a congruency of versions of an application across phases of a release pipeline Sara Russell, Lucinio Santos, John-Mason P. Shackelford, John E. Swanke 2018-03-20 $2,525,000
9916156 Visualizing a congruency of versions of an application across phases of a release pipeline Sara Russell, Lucinio Santos, John-Mason P. Shackelford, John E. Swanke 2018-03-13 $2,527,000
9417869 Visualizing a congruency of versions of an application across phases of a release pipeline Sara Russell, Lucinio Santos, John-Mason P. Shackelford, John E. Swanke 2016-08-16 $3,753,000
9411577 Visualizing a congruency of versions of an application across phases of a release pipeline Sara Russell, Lucinio Santos, John-Mason P. Shackelford, John E. Swanke 2016-08-09 $4,722,000
9256968 Method for modeling using sketches Daniel C. Berg, John E. Swanke 2016-02-09 $2,307,000
9235909 Simplifying the presentation of a visually complex semantic model within a graphical modeling application Daniel C. Berg, Brad L. Blancett, Chad M. Holliday, Narinder Makin, John E. Swanke 2016-01-12 $5,327,000
9230042 Displaying a contextual organization chart with awareness Marijane Zeller, Oliver Heinz, Andrew L. Schirmer 2016-01-05 $2,535,000
9015593 Managing advisories for complex model nodes in a graphical modeling application Daniel C. Berg, Brad L. Blancett, Chad M. Holliday, Alexander V. Konstantinou, Narinder Makin +2 more 2015-04-21 $6,169,000
8849987 Automated discovery of a topology of a distributed computing environment Daniel C. Berg, Brad L. Blancett, Chad M. Holliday, Michael H. Kalantar, Alexander V. Konstantinou +3 more 2014-09-30 $5,320,000
8799203 Method and system for encapsulation and re-use of models Daniel C. Berg, Brad L. Blancett, Chad M. Holliday, Alexander V. Konstantinou, Narinder Makin +2 more 2014-08-05 $3,332,000
8762937 Model driven deployment of composite applications Daniel C. Berg, Brad L. Blancett, Chad M. Holliday, Alexander V. Konstantinou, Timothy A. Pouyer +3 more 2014-06-24 $6,231,000
8677317 Simplified deployment modeling William C. Arnold, Daniel C. Berg, Brad L. Blancett, Tamar Eilam, Chad M. Holliday +9 more 2014-03-18 $3,993,000
8595693 Model driven deployment of composite applications Daniel C. Berg, Brad L. Blancett, Chad M. Holliday, Alexander V. Konstantinou, Timothy A. Pouyer +3 more 2013-11-26 $4,812,000
8438468 Annotation management Daniel C. Berg, Timothy M. Francis, Patrick James Kelley, Jr., John David Lanuti, Narinder Makin +4 more 2013-05-07 $10,737,000
8402381 Automatically arranging widgets of a model within a canvas using iterative region based widget relative adjustments Daniel C. Berg, Brad L. Blancett, Chad M. Holliday, Narinder Makin, John E. Swanke 2013-03-19 $8,741,000
8369527 Access control over multicast Boaz Carmeli, John J. Duigenan, Gidon Gershinsky 2013-02-05 $5,221,000