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Michael J. Kelly — 58 Patents

IBM: 21 patents #5,188 of 70,183Top 8%
ATAT&T: 5 patents #3,621 of 18,772Top 20%
IMImation: 3 patents #110 of 622Top 20%
GPGeneral Electric Company, P.L.C.: 3 patents #8 of 217Top 4%
DMDesktop Metal: 2 patents #54 of 86Top 65%
GLGte Automatic Electric Labs: 2 patents #23 of 73Top 35%
NANyegaard & Co. A/S: 2 patents #6 of 15Top 40%
Lam Research: 2 patents #1,028 of 2,128Top 50%
3M: 2 patents #5,350 of 11,543Top 50%
UEUS Dept of Energy: 2 patents #577 of 5,099Top 15%
Microsoft: 2 patents #17,644 of 40,388Top 45%
RTX (Raytheon): 1 patents #8,290 of 15,912Top 55%
AGAgere Systems Guardian: 1 patents #274 of 810Top 35%
DEDepartment Of Energy: 1 patents #41 of 740Top 6%
GEGec-Marconi: 1 patents #45 of 186Top 25%
IFInternational Technology Center Fzc: 1 patents #12 of 27Top 45%
MGMas-Hamilton Group: 1 patents #21 of 33Top 65%
GE: 1 patents #19,940 of 36,430Top 55%
ASAgere Systems: 1 patents #984 of 1,849Top 55%
Raleigh, NC: #81 of 6,378 inventorsTop 2%
North Carolina: #432 of 45,564 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #41,319 of 4,157,543Top 1%
58 Patents All Time
Michael J. Kelly has been granted 58 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1981 and the most recent in August 2022. Michael J. Kelly ranks #41,319 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.99%). Patent records list Michael J. Kelly in Raleigh, NC, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1981 to 2022Bar chart with a peak of 7 patents in 2014.peak 71981: 3 patents19811983: 3 patents1987: 1 patents1988: 1 patents19881989: 1 patents1991: 4 patents1992: 1 patents19921993: 2 patents1994: 2 patents1996: 1 patents19961998: 1 patents1999: 1 patents2000: 4 patents20002001: 1 patents2002: 2 patents2003: 2 patents20032004: 1 patents2005: 2 patents2007: 2 patents20072008: 1 patents2009: 1 patents2010: 1 patents20102011: 3 patents2013: 3 patents2014: 7 patents20142016: 4 patents2020: 2 patents2022: 1 patents2022

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 58 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11420254 Method of forming an object using 3D printing Tomek Brzezinski, Michael Andrew Gibson 2022-08-23 $25,394,000
10690267 Adjustable holding assembly Pellegrino J. Pisacreta 2020-06-23 $35,627,000
10625337 Adhesion to build plate in 3D printer Tomek Brzezinski, Michael Andrew Gibson 2020-04-21 $2,272,000
9414478 Self-tuned dielectric barrier discharge Brian D. Schultz, William M. Hooke 2016-08-09
9306745 Secure key management Todd W. Arnold, Elizabeth A. Dames, Carsten D. Frehr, Kenneth B. Kerr, Richard V. Kisley +2 more 2016-04-05 $4,230,000
9288051 Secure key management Todd W. Arnold, Elizabeth A. Dames, Thomas J. Dewkett, Carsten D. Frehr, Kenneth B. Kerr +3 more 2016-03-15 $3,165,000
9264230 Secure key management Todd W. Arnold, Elizabeth A. Dames, Thomas J. Dewkett, Carsten D. Frehr, Kenneth B. Kerr +3 more 2016-02-16 $2,821,000
8856520 Secure key management Todd W. Arnold, Elizabeth A. Dames, Carsten D. Frehr, Kenneth B. Kerr, Richard V. Kisley +2 more 2014-10-07 $3,450,000
8789210 Key usage policies for cryptographic keys Todd W. Arnold, Elizabeth A. Dames, Carsten D. Frehr, Kenneth B. Kerr, Richard V. Kisley +2 more 2014-07-22 $5,473,000
8755527 Key management policies for cryptographic keys Todd W. Arnold, Elizabeth A. Dames, Carsten D. Frehr, Kenneth B. Kerr, Richard V. Kisley +2 more 2014-06-17 $4,121,000
8739297 Key usage policies for cryptographic keys Todd W. Arnold, Elizabeth A. Dames, Carsten D. Frehr, Kenneth B. Kerr, Richard V. Kisley +2 more 2014-05-27 $4,024,000
8713709 Key management policies for cryptographic keys Todd W. Arnold, Elizabeth A. Dames, Carsten D. Frehr, Kenneth B. Kerr, Richard V. Kisley +2 more 2014-04-29 $5,775,000
8645715 Configuring host settings to specify an encryption setting and a key label referencing a key encryption key to use to encrypt an encryption key provided to a storage drive to use to encrypt data from the host Erika M. Dawson, Richard Henry Guski, Cecelia Carranza Lewis, Jon A. Lynds, Wayne Erwin Rhoten +1 more 2014-02-04 $4,435,000
8634561 Secure key management Todd W. Arnold, Elizabeth A. Dames, Carsten D. Frehr, Kenneth B. Kerr, Richard V. Kisley +2 more 2014-01-21 $5,923,000
8566913 Secure key management Todd W. Arnold, Elizabeth A. Dames, Carsten D. Frehr, Kenneth B. Kerr, Richard V. Kisley +2 more 2013-10-22 $5,163,000
8498418 Conversion of cryptographic key protection Klaus Meissner, Bernd Nerz, Phil C. Yeh, Peter G. Sutton 2013-07-30 $15,502,000
8484378 Receiving a version-specific result responsive to a query Matthew Gauthier 2013-07-09 $26,872,000
8065522 Method and system for virtualization of trusted platform modules Steven A. Bade, Linda N. Betz, Andrew G. Kegel, William Lee Terrell 2011-11-22 $22,584,000
7991891 Version-specific content searching Matthew Gauthier 2011-08-02 $22,196,000
7908474 Method for improved key management for ATMs and other remote devices Todd W. Arnold, Elizabeth A. Dames, Carsten D. Frehr, Kurt S. Jacobsen, Mark D. Marik +1 more 2011-03-15 $6,222,000
7779258 Method for controlling security function execution with a flexible, extendable, and non-forgable block Todd W. Arnold, Elizabeth A. Dames, Carsten D. Frehr, Kurt S. Jacobsen, Mark D. Marik +1 more 2010-08-17 $4,695,000
7499552 Cipher method and system for verifying a decryption of an encrypted user data key Andrew Nelson Wilt 2009-03-03 $5,705,000
7380119 Method and system for virtualization of trusted platform modules Steven A. Bade, Linda N. Betz, Andrew G. Kegel, William Lee Terrell 2008-05-27 $8,304,000
7291286 Methods for removing black silicon and black silicon carbide from surfaces of silicon and silicon carbide electrodes for plasma processing apparatuses Enrico Magni, Robert C. Hefty, Michelle Lupan 2007-11-06 $43,055,000
7226869 Methods for protecting silicon or silicon carbide electrode surfaces from morphological modification during plasma etch processing Kenji Takeshita, Tsuyoshi Aso, Seiji Kawaguchi, Thomas McClard, Wan-Lin Chen +3 more 2007-06-05 $15,368,000