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Rainer Richter — 36 Patents

IBM: 11 patents #10,022 of 70,183Top 15%
BMW: 9 patents #187 of 5,361Top 4%
B&Behr Gmbh &: 3 patents #48 of 309Top 20%
MAMax-Planck-Gesellschaft: 1 patents #9 of 98Top 10%
SASap Ag: 1 patents #1,847 of 3,812Top 50%
UNUnknown: 1 patents #29,356 of 83,584Top 40%
BKBehr Gmbh & Co. Kg: 1 patents #147 of 336Top 45%
Overall (All Time): #92,222 of 4,157,543Top 3%
36 Patents All Time
Rainer Richter has been granted 36 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1998 and the most recent in October 2025. Rainer Richter ranks #92,222 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.2%). Patent records list Rainer Richter in Munich, CA, DE.

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Showing 1–25 of 36 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12457767 DEPFET transistor Alexander Bähr, Peter Lechner, Jelena Ninkovic, Florian Schopper, Johannes Treis 2025-10-28
12205967 Avalanche photodiode array Florian Schopper, Jelena Ninkovic, Alexander Bähr 2025-01-21
12046674 DEPFET transistor and method of manufacturing a DEPFET transistor Alexander Bähr, Peter Lechner, Jelena Ninkovic, Florian Schopper, Johannes Treis 2024-07-23
11085357 Method and device for ventilating a heat management system of an internal combustion engine Wolfgang Hofmann, Wolfram Enke 2021-08-10
10963432 Scalable and user friendly file virtualization for hierarchical storage Steven V. Kauffman 2021-03-30 $6,181,000
10698867 File index, metadata storage, and file system management for magnetic tape Arnon Amir, David A. Pease 2020-06-30 $3,003,000
10174666 Method for operating a cooling system of an internal combustion engine and protection system in a cooling system Georg Chekaiban, Holger Brandt, Andreas Klemm 2019-01-08
10030572 Coolant circuit for an internal combustion engine Georg Chekaiban, Andreas Klemm, Ulrich Wirth 2018-07-24
10023025 Heat management system for an internal combustion engine Wolfgang Hofmann, Wolfram Enke 2018-07-17
9812475 Detector arrangement and corresponding operating method wherein the detector is a semi-conductor detector which is switchable between collection states with selected subpixel sensitivity Alexander Baehr, Florian Schopper, Johannes Treis 2017-11-07
9430155 File index, metadata storage, and file system management for magnetic tape Arnon Amir, David A. Pease 2016-08-30 $3,867,000
9275678 Primary storage media with associated secondary storage media for efficient data management Arnon Amir, Wayne Isami Imaino, David A. Pease 2016-03-01 $3,006,000
9165015 Scalable and user friendly file virtualization for hierarchical storage Steven V. Kauffman 2015-10-20 $3,961,000
9063666 File index, metadata storage, and file system management for magnetic tape Arnon Amir, David A. Pease 2015-06-23 $4,496,000
8972360 Position invariant compression of files within a multi-level compression scheme Steven V. Kauffman 2015-03-03 $3,627,000
8938946 Exhaust gas system for an internal combustion engine 2015-01-27
8675296 Creating an identical copy of a tape cartridge Arnon Amir, Harald Seipp 2014-03-18 $3,993,000
8630528 Method and system for specifying a selection of content segments stored in different formats Steven V. Kauffman, Jane K. Doong, Lara Marie Lewis, Chiunn-shyong Yeh, John Ying 2014-01-14 $7,408,000
8566185 Managing consistent interfaces for financial instrument business objects across heterogeneous systems Joerg Bartelt, Dirk Endesfelder, Martin Erdelmeier, Manfred Wanninger, Sarah Von Glan 2013-10-22 $1,701,000
8549835 Exhaust gas system for an internal combustion engine 2013-10-08
8418799 Cooling system for a thermoelectric power generator Boris Mazar, Stefan Rueth, Gunter Schroeter, Stefan Muench 2013-04-16
8258594 Avalanche photodiode Ladislav Andricek, Gerhard Lutz 2012-09-04
7992670 Motor vehicle having a unit operated by a cryogenically stored fuel Carsten Schwarz, Michael Schreiner, Johann Tonhauser 2011-08-09
7882708 Flat pipe-shaped heat exchanger Gerrit Wolk, Ralf Bochert, Wolfgang Kramer, Martin Kaspar, Arnold Rehm 2011-02-08
7878283 Vehicle having a thermoelectric generator Andreas Eder 2011-02-01