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Thomas D. Kidd — 16 Patents

IBM: 16 patents #6,980 of 70,183Top 10%
Stewartville, MN: #6 of 58 inventorsTop 15%
Minnesota: #4,638 of 52,454 inventorsTop 9%
Overall (All Time): #284,196 of 4,157,543Top 7%
16 Patents All Time
Thomas D. Kidd has been granted 16 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1995 and the most recent in November 2019. Thomas D. Kidd ranks #284,196 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 6.8%). Patent records list Thomas D. Kidd in Stewartville, MN, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1995 to 2019Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2012.peak 21995: 1 patents19951996: 1 patents1998: 1 patents19981999: 1 patents2000: 1 patents20002001: 1 patents2006: 1 patents20062011: 1 patents2012: 2 patents20122015: 1 patents2016: 2 patents20162017: 1 patents2018: 1 patents20182019: 1 patents2019

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–16 of 16 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10479322 Wiper control mechanism John R. Dangler 2019-11-19 $5,772,000
10150449 Wiper control mechanism John R. Dangler 2018-12-11 $6,670,000
9554474 Debug probing device and technique for use with flexible rework device Gerald K. Bartley, David J. Braun, John R. Dangler, Matthew S. Doyle 2017-01-24 $6,164,000
9421946 Wiper control mechanism John R. Dangler 2016-08-23 $3,302,000
9265155 Flexible rework device Gerald K. Bartley, David J. Braun, John R. Dangler, Matthew S. Doyle 2016-02-16 $2,821,000
9032617 Method for manufacturing split flex cable David J. Braun, Mark G. Clark, John R. Dangler, Matthew S. Doyle, Jason T. Stoll 2015-05-19 $4,677,000
8251749 Implementing impedance gradient connector for board-to-board applications John R. Dangler, Matthew S. Doyle, Joseph Kuczynski, Kevin A. Splittstoesser, Timothy J. Tofil 2012-08-28 $8,752,000
8106300 Split flex cable David J. Braun, Mark G. Clark, John R. Dangler, Matthew S. Doyle, Jason T. Stoll 2012-01-31 $4,013,000
7977582 Flexible multilayer printed circuit assembly with reduced EMI emissions Mark G. Clark, John R. Dangler, Matthew S. Doyle, Timothy L. McMillan, Jason T. Stoll 2011-07-12 $4,098,000
7086869 Flexible cable interconnect with integrated EMC shielding John R. Dangler, Matthew S. Doyle, Bradley L. Martin, Kevin J. Przybylski, Jason T. Stoll 2006-08-08 $2,377,000
6224395 Flex cables with increased three-dimensional conformity and design flexibility Paul Eric Dahlen, John R. Dangler, Miles Frank Swain 2001-05-01 $28,625,000
6024580 High performance pad on pad connector for flex circuit packaging John R. Dangler, Mark K. Hoffmeyer, Miles Frank Swain 2000-02-15 $27,373,000
5873512 Application of low temperature metallurgical paste to form a bond structure to attach an electronic component to a carrier James D. Bielick, Mark K. Hoffmeyer, Phillip Duane Isaacs, David Allen Sluzewski 1999-02-23 $8,993,000
5806753 Application of low temperature metallurgical paste to form a bond structure to attach an electronic component to a carrier James D. Bielick, Mark K. Hoffmeyer, Phillip Duane Isaacs, David Allen Sluzewski 1998-09-15 $10,805,000
5513073 Optical device heat spreader and thermal isolation apparatus Timothy R. Block, David Peter Gaio, Charles J. Guenther, Dennis L. Karst, Michael W. Leddige 1996-04-30 $14,964,000
5446960 Alignment apparatus and method for placing modules on a circuit board Phillip Duane Isaacs, Bradley H. Redfield, Jeffrey Stone 1995-09-05 $5,794,000