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Scott Thomas — 9 Patents

IBM: 4 patents #21,783 of 70,183Top 35%
Intel: 2 patents #13,316 of 30,777Top 45%
HBHgst Netherlands, B.V.: 1 patents #510 of 972Top 55%
Apple: 1 patents #12,397 of 18,612Top 70%
Gilbert, AZ: #261 of 1,739 inventorsTop 20%
Arizona: #4,088 of 32,909 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #535,341 of 4,157,543Top 15%
9 Patents All Time
Scott Thomas has been granted 9 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 2002 and the most recent in August 2021. Scott Thomas ranks #535,341 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 12.9%). Patent records list Scott Thomas in Gilbert, AZ, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2002 to 2021Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2021.peak 22002: 1 patents20022004: 1 patents20042005: 1 patents20052006: 1 patents20062007: 1 patents20072013: 1 patents20132019: 1 patents20192021: 2 patents2021

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–9 of 9 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11079484 Communication device and a method for localization Mi Sun Park, Lei Yang, Jung Woo, Addicam V. Sanjay 2021-08-03 $263,472,000
10950105 Autonomous sensor placement discovery method and apparatus Daniel Gutwein, John Belstner, Daniel P. Stokes 2021-03-16 $38,556,000
10467873 Privacy-preserving behavior detection Ke-Yu Chen, Shao-Wen Yang, Chieh-Yih Wan, Rahul C. Shah, Addicam V. Sanjay 2019-11-05 $22,190,000
8390962 Lapping method and station to achieve tight dimension controls for both read and write elements of magnetic recording heads and magnetic storage device formed thereby Jeffrey P. Gunder, Ian Robson McFadyen, Darrick T. Smith, Xiao Z. Wu 2013-03-05
7236323 Method and apparatus for providing combined radial and timing multislot self-servowrite propagation Blake Finstad, Gary Herbst, Kishan K. Kumbia, Mark D. Schultz, Satoshi Yamamoto 2007-06-26 $246,000
7079347 Method and apparatus for providing a marker for adaptive formatting via a self-servowrite process Paul M. Cisewski, Blake Finstad, Peter Ho, Kishan K. Kumbla, Daniel James Malone, Sr. 2006-07-18 $4,124,000
6940677 Writing distinct servo patterns on individual transducers according to transducer read/write head characteristics in a data storage device Craig Fukushima 2005-09-06 $5,379,000
6735032 Servo write timing generation in a multi-actuator disk drive George A. Dunn 2004-05-11 $7,887,000
6456449 Disk drive with wide servo burst pattern and wide servo sensing element Karl A. Belser, Wayne Leung Cheung, Dave Anthony Freitas, Ju-Hi J. Hong, Mohamad Towfik Krounbi +1 more 2002-09-24 $8,983,000