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Thomas D. Erickson — 41 Patents

IBM: 36 patents #2,703 of 70,183Top 4%
Apple: 2 patents #9,294 of 18,612Top 50%
OFOwens-Corning Fiberglas: 2 patents #298 of 488Top 65%
TETechnische Universiteit Eindhoven: 1 patents #55 of 201Top 30%
Minneapolis, MN: #77 of 6,114 inventorsTop 2%
Minnesota: #1,240 of 52,454 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #75,001 of 4,157,543Top 2%
41 Patents All Time
Thomas D. Erickson has been granted 41 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1980 and the most recent in July 2021. Thomas D. Erickson ranks #75,001 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.8%). Patent records list Thomas D. Erickson in Minneapolis, MN, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1980 to 2021Bar chart with a peak of 9 patents in 2018.peak 91980: 2 patents19801993: 1 patents1994: 1 patents19942003: 1 patents2005: 2 patents20052007: 1 patents2011: 2 patents20112012: 1 patents2014: 2 patents20142015: 1 patents2016: 1 patents20162017: 1 patents2018: 9 patents20182019: 9 patents2020: 6 patents20202021: 1 patents2021

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 41 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11075992 System and method for providing medical attention Clifford A. Pickover, Maja Vukovic, Komminist Weldemariam 2021-07-27 $4,187,000
10831197 Personality sharing among drone swarm Kala Fleming, Clifford A. Pickover, Komminist Weldemariam 2020-11-10 $848,000
10696399 Maintenance of a machine Kala Fleming, Clifford A. Pickover, Komminist Weldemariam 2020-06-30 $3,003,000
10691505 Software bot conflict-resolution service agent Clifford A. Pickover, Komminist Weldemariam 2020-06-23 $2,380,000
10683088 Unmanned aerial vehicle for crowd visual feedback Clifford A. Pickover, Maja Vukovic 2020-06-16 $3,682,000
10678266 Method and system for continued navigation of unmanned aerial vehicles beyond restricted airspace boundaries Clifford A. Pickover, Maja Vukovic 2020-06-09 $2,264,000
10569872 Maintenance of a machine Kala Fleming, Clifford A. Pickover, Komminist Weldemariam 2020-02-25 $1,919,000
10394861 Natural language processor for providing natural language signals in a natural language output Robert G. Farrell 2019-08-27 $1,335,000
10394963 Natural language processor for providing natural language signals in a natural language output Robert G. Farrell 2019-08-27 $1,335,000
10345825 Detecting an illumination need Clifford A. Pickover, Maja Vukovic, Komminist Weldemariam 2019-07-09 $2,201,000
10335952 Monitoring and controlling the movement of mobile robots Ashish Kundu, Clifford A. Pickover, Maja Vukovic 2019-07-02 $3,331,000
10331497 Software bot conflict-resolution service agent Clifford A. Pickover, Komminist Weldemariam 2019-06-25 $2,152,000
10324466 Personality sharing among drone swarm Kala Fleming, Clifford A. Pickover, Komminist Weldemariam 2019-06-18 $3,033,000
10289456 Software bot conflict-resolution service agent Clifford A. Pickover, Komminist Weldemariam 2019-05-14
10287014 Unmanned aerial vehicle coupling apparatus for drone coupling with vehicles Michael S. Gordon, Clifford A. Pickover, Maja Vukovic 2019-05-14 $3,761,000
10249194 Modifying behavior of autonomous vehicle based on advanced predicted behavior analysis of nearby drivers Clifford A. Pickover, Aisha Walcott, Komminist Weldemariam 2019-04-02 $2,364,000
10163355 Dynamic management system, method, and recording medium for cognitive drone-swarms Rogerio S. Feris, Clifford A. Pickover 2018-12-25
10140987 Aerial drone companion device and a method of operating an aerial drone companion device Clifford A. Pickover, Komminist Weldemariam 2018-11-27 $2,773,000
10082802 Method and system for continued navigation of unmanned aerial vehicles beyond restricted airspace boundaries Clifford A. Pickover, Maja Vukovic 2018-09-25 $2,527,000
10077110 Monitoring for movement disorders using unmanned aerial vehicles Michael S. Gordon, Clifford A. Pickover, Maja Vukovic 2018-09-18 $3,379,000
10040551 Drone delivery of coffee based on a cognitive state of an individual Rogerio S. Feris, Clifford A. Pickover, Maja Vukovic 2018-08-07 $1,950,000
10035555 Cognitive stabilizer wheels for vehicles Minkyong Kim, Clifford A. Pickover, Maja Vukovic 2018-07-31 $5,084,000
10009568 Displaying the simulated gazes of multiple remote participants to participants collocated in a meeting space Jason B. Ellis, KARIN NIEMANTSVERDRIET, Bin Xu 2018-06-26 $3,428,000
9881171 Privacy protecting sensing devices Rachel K. E. Bellamy 2018-01-30 $2,622,000
9875592 Drone used for authentication and authorization for restricted access via an electronic lock Kala Fleming, Clifford A. Pickover, Komminist Weldemariam 2018-01-23 $4,886,000