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Michael J. Fork — 23 Patents

IBM: 23 patents #4,699 of 70,183Top 7%
Gibsonburg, OH: #1 of 16 inventorsTop 7%
Ohio: #2,717 of 73,341 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #178,160 of 4,157,543Top 5%
23 Patents All Time
Michael J. Fork has been granted 23 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 2012 and the most recent in February 2020. Michael J. Fork ranks #178,160 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.3%). Patent records list Michael J. Fork in Gibsonburg, OH, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2012 to 2020Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2015.peak 52012: 1 patents20122013: 2 patents20132014: 3 patents20142015: 5 patents20152016: 5 patents20162017: 4 patents20172018: 2 patents20182020: 1 patents2020

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–23 of 23 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10560426 Securing applications on public facing systems Christopher Thomas Gloe, Kevin G. Paterson 2020-02-11 $2,410,000
10122707 User impersonation/delegation in a token-based authentication system Vincent Edmund Price 2018-11-06 $3,429,000
10057332 Preemptive extraction of data from long latency storage in a cloud computing environment Lance Bragstad, Mathew R. Odden, Adam D. Reznechek 2018-08-21 $2,787,000
9798483 Object storage power consumption optimization Egan F. Ford 2017-10-24 $3,030,000
9749291 Securing applications on public facing systems Christopher Thomas Gloe, Kevin G. Paterson 2017-08-29 $2,195,000
9632662 Placement of items in radial menus Paul R. Chmielewski, Brian J. Cragun 2017-04-25 $1,937,000
9588707 Object storage power consumption optimization Egan F. Ford 2017-03-07 $2,625,000
9497184 User impersonation/delegation in a token-based authentication system Vincent Edmund Price 2016-11-15 $2,170,000
9450841 Streaming state data for cloud management Bin Cao, Jim C. Chen 2016-09-20 $4,565,000
9436380 Radial menus with variable selectable item areas Paul R. Chmielewski, Brian J. Cragun 2016-09-06 $4,975,000
9383897 Spiraling radial menus in computer systems Brian J. Cragun 2016-07-05 $5,294,000
9298823 Identifying core content based on citations Brian J. Cragun 2016-03-29 $2,226,000
9130831 Streaming state data for cloud management Bin Cao, Jim C. Chen 2015-09-08 $6,618,000
9104457 Virtual machine-to-image affinity on a physical server Salman A. Baset, Alexei Karve, Sambit Sahu 2015-08-11 $2,160,000
9104455 Virtual machine-to-image affinity on a physical server Salman A. Baset, Alexei Karve, Sambit Sahu 2015-08-11 $2,160,000
9008433 Object tag metadata and image search Rick A. Hamilton, II, Kevin G. Paterson, James W. Seaman 2015-04-14 $3,567,000
8983197 Object tag metadata and image search Rick A. Hamilton, II, Kevin G. Paterson, James R. Seaman 2015-03-17 $4,972,000
8811797 Switching between time order and popularity order sending of video segments Chris Mwarabu, Kevin G. Paterson, Theodore J. L. Shrader 2014-08-19 $3,895,000
8677282 Multi-finger touch adaptations for medical imaging systems Brian J. Cragun 2014-03-18 $3,993,000
8627233 Radial menu with overshoot, fade away, and undo capabilities Brian J. Cragun, Bradley J. Erickson, William C. Rapp 2014-01-07 $4,729,000
8578295 Placement of items in cascading radial menus Paul R. Chmielewski, Brian J. Cragun, William C. Rapp 2013-11-05 $5,290,000
8468466 Radial menu selection with gestures Brian J. Cragun, Bradley J. Erickson, William C. Rapp 2013-06-18 $7,677,000
8319801 Magnifying content on a graphical display Brian J. Cragun 2012-11-27 $10,542,000