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Thomas C. Long — 15 Patents

IBM: 9 patents #11,946 of 70,183Top 20%
Intel: 2 patents #13,316 of 30,777Top 45%
Honeywell: 2 patents #6,851 of 16,504Top 45%
Overall (All Time): #307,048 of 4,157,543Top 8%
15 Patents All Time
Thomas C. Long has been granted 15 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1992 and the most recent in June 2025. Thomas C. Long ranks #307,048 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 7.4%). Patent records list Thomas C. Long in Limerick, NY, IE.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1992 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2016.peak 21992: 1 patents19921996: 1 patents2012: 1 patents20122013: 1 patents2014: 1 patents20142016: 2 patents2018: 2 patents20182021: 2 patents2022: 2 patents20222023: 1 patents2025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–15 of 15 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12323333 Software distributed, hardware aggregated hierarchical traffic management Jasvinder Singh, Eoin Walsh, John J. Browne 2025-06-03
11769596 Plasma based protein profiling for early stage lung cancer diagnosis Cherylle Goebel, Christopher Louden 2023-09-26
11537419 Virtual machine migration while maintaining live network links Stephen T. Palermo, Krishnamurthy Jambur Sathyanarayana, Sean Harte, Eliezer Tamir, Hari K. Tadepalli 2022-12-27 $12,365,000
11417044 Advanced delay analysis mechanism 2022-08-16
10956038 Non-volatile memory drive partitions within microcontrollers 2021-03-23 $2,115,000
10891703 Preventing unauthorized use of protected equipment in violation of export regulations Daniel J. Kearney, Budy D. Notohardjono, Steven J. Ahladas, David Bruce Kumhyr 2021-01-12 $3,912,000
9857976 Non-volatile memory drive partitions within microcontrollers 2018-01-02 $1,907,000
9857975 Non-volatile memory drive partitions within microcontrollers 2018-01-02 $1,907,000
9442756 Multi-processor command management in electronic components with multiple microcontrollers 2016-09-13 $4,023,000
9436500 Multi-processor command management in electronic components with multiple microcontrollers 2016-09-06 $4,975,000
8734007 Calibrated airflow sensor facilitating monitoring of electronic system cooling Levi A. Campbell, Robert B. Schlak, Peter A. Wendling 2014-05-27 $4,024,000
8550702 Calibrated airflow sensor facilitating monitoring of electronic system cooling Levi A. Campbell, Robert B. Schlak, Peter A. Wendling 2013-10-08 $7,754,000
8245214 Reliably updating computer firmware while performing command and control functions on a power/thermal component in a high-availability, fault-tolerant, high-performance server Robert Makowicki 2012-08-14 $4,482,000
5550661 Optical phase retardation film Terri R. Clark 1996-08-27 $23,010,000
5139878 Multilayer film constructions Hee-Teck Kim 1992-08-18 $5,634,000