Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025
MP

Michael D. Pfeifer — 28 Patents

IBM: 28 patents #3,689 of 70,183Top 6%
Rochester, MN: #202 of 3,042 inventorsTop 7%
Minnesota: #2,190 of 52,454 inventorsTop 5%
Overall (All Time): #134,628 of 4,157,543Top 4%
28 Patents All Time
Michael D. Pfeifer has been granted 28 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1992 and the most recent in March 2022. Michael D. Pfeifer ranks #134,628 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.2%). Patent records list Michael D. Pfeifer in Rochester, MN, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1992 to 2022Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2016.peak 51992: 1 patents19921994: 1 patents2002: 1 patents20022005: 3 patents2009: 1 patents20092010: 1 patents2012: 1 patents20122013: 3 patents2014: 4 patents20142016: 5 patents2018: 4 patents20182019: 1 patents2021: 1 patents20212022: 1 patents2022

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 28 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11269929 Combining semantic relationship information with entities and non-entities for predictive analytics in a cognitive system William Scott Spangler, Richard L. Martin, David Martinez Iraola, Daniel Pierce, Sheng Hua Bao +1 more 2022-03-08 $4,244,000
10885025 Answer management in a question-answering environment Kevin S. Barker, Thomas J. Eggebraaten, Mark G. Megerian, John E. Petri 2021-01-05 $2,293,000
10460239 Generation of inferred questions for a question answering system John E. Petri, William C. Rapp 2019-10-29 $4,364,000
10043024 Intelligent governance controls based on real-time contexts Adam T. Clark, John S. Mysak, Aspen L. Payton, John E. Petri 2018-08-07 $1,950,000
9923898 Resource management in a presentation environment Adam T. Clark, John S. Mysak, Aspen L. Payton, John E. Petri 2018-03-20 $2,525,000
9888006 Resource management in a presentation environment Adam T. Clark, John S. Mysak, Aspen L. Payton, John E. Petri 2018-02-06 $2,625,000
9886591 Intelligent governance controls based on real-time contexts Adam T. Clark, John S. Mysak, Aspen L. Payton, John E. Petri 2018-02-06 $2,625,000
9525693 Resource management in a presentation environment Adam T. Clark, John S. Mysak, Aspen L. Payton, John E. Petri 2016-12-20 $6,917,000
9519719 Resource management in a presentation environment Adam T. Clark, John S. Mysak, Aspen L. Payton, John E. Petri 2016-12-13 $6,265,000
9396157 Stream application performance monitoring metrics Ryan K. Cradick, John M. Santosuosso 2016-07-19 $4,161,000
9396158 Stream application performance monitoring metrics Ryan K. Cradick, John M. Santosuosso 2016-07-19 $4,161,000
9389918 Job plan selection for reducing instability of a job within a heterogeneous stream processing application Zachary Adam Garbow 2016-07-12 $3,552,000
8856766 Generating layouts for graphs of data flow applications Andrew Lawrence Frenkiel, Henrique Andrade, Bugra Gedik, Wim De Pauw 2014-10-07 $3,450,000
8776062 Determining desired job plan based on previous inquiries in a stream processing framework Zachary Adam Garbow 2014-07-08 $4,236,000
8732300 Application monitoring in a stream database environment Eric L. Barsness, Ryan K. Cradick, John M. Santosuosso 2014-05-20 $10,035,000
8656369 Tracing flow of data in a distributed computing application Paul V. Allen, Henrique Andrade, Wim De Pauw, Bugra Gedik, Andy L. Frenkiel 2014-02-18 $4,910,000
8600976 Invalidating streams in an operator graph Ryan K. Cradick, John M. Santosuosso 2013-12-03 $7,507,000
8601477 Reducing instability within a heterogeneous stream processing application Zachary Adam Garbow 2013-12-03 $7,507,000
8452756 Database execution detail repository Mark J. Anderson, Robert Joseph Bestgen, Daniel E. Beuch, Curtis Boger, James Michael Flanagan +3 more 2013-05-28 $7,454,000
8327337 Stream based debugging techniques Eric L. Barsness, Ryan K. Cradick, John M. Santosuosso 2012-12-04 $3,998,000
7743052 Method and apparatus for projecting the effect of maintaining an auxiliary database structure for use in executing database queries Robert Joseph Bestgen, James Michael Flanagan 2010-06-22 $6,664,000
7584200 Graphical database navigator with relation level control 2009-09-01 $20,741,000
6978269 Apparatus and method for generating and displaying a schema diagram for a database Peter J. Johnson 2005-12-20 $8,568,000
6915298 User-defined relationships for diagramming user-defined database relations Michael W. Cain, Peter J. Johnson, Kenton R. Milligan 2005-07-05 $5,545,000
6842878 Method to document relations between objects using a graphical interface tree component Peter J. Johnson 2005-01-11 $11,104,000