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Stephen D. Thomas — 8 Patents

IBM: 4 patents #21,783 of 70,183Top 35%
Microsoft: 4 patents #10,758 of 40,388Top 30%
Bellevue, WA: #1,425 of 6,950 inventorsTop 25%
Washington: #13,119 of 76,902 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #600,572 of 4,157,543Top 15%
8 Patents All Time
Stephen D. Thomas has been granted 8 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1999 and the most recent in November 2014. Stephen D. Thomas ranks #600,572 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 14.4%). Patent records list Stephen D. Thomas in Bellevue, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1999 to 2014Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 1999.peak 21999: 2 patents19992000: 1 patents20002006: 2 patents20062008: 1 patents20082009: 1 patents20092014: 1 patents2014

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–8 of 8 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8887164 Manufacturing process prioritization based on applying rules to task-based data Gregory S. Conner 2014-11-11 $15,773,000
7613801 System and method for monitoring server performance using a server Joseph Pierre Cote, Steve Masters 2009-11-03 $22,743,000
7434185 Method and apparatus for parallel data preparation and processing of integrated circuit graphical design data Daria R. Dooling, Kenneth T. Settlemyer, Jr., Jacek G. Smolinski, Ralph J. Williams 2008-10-07 $9,641,000
7136798 Method and apparatus to manage multi-computer demand Gary S. Ditlow, Daria R. Dooling, David E. Moran, Ralph J. Williams 2006-11-14 $5,090,000
7051307 Autonomic graphical partitioning Gary S. Ditlow, Daria R. Dooling, Timothy G. Dunham, William C. Leipold, Ralph J. Williams 2006-05-23 $5,226,000
6021262 System and method for detection of, notification of, and automated repair of problem conditions in a messaging system Joseph Paul-Emile Pierre Cote 2000-02-01 $784,161,000
5938729 System and method for monitoring server performance at a client computer Joseph Paul-Emile Pierre Cote 1999-08-17 $776,169,000
5870556 Monitoring a messaging link Joseph Paul-Emile Pierre Cote 1999-02-09 $713,279,000