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Thomas D. Needham — 9 Patents

IBM: 9 patents #11,946 of 70,183Top 20%
Poughkeepsie, NY: #414 of 1,613 inventorsTop 30%
New York: #16,392 of 115,490 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #535,341 of 4,157,543Top 15%
9 Patents All Time
Thomas D. Needham has been granted 9 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 2007 and the most recent in November 2013. Thomas D. Needham ranks #535,341 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 12.9%). Patent records list Thomas D. Needham in Poughkeepsie, NY, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2007 to 2013Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2013.peak 52007: 1 patents20072008: 1 patents20082009: 1 patents20092010: 1 patents20102013: 5 patents2013

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–9 of 9 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8589834 Using direct memory access to initialize a programmable logic device Andrew R. Ranck 2013-11-19 $3,686,000
8516177 Avoiding non-posted request deadlocks in devices by holding the sending of requests Carl A. Bender, Jeffrey C. Hanscom 2013-08-20 $3,918,000
8495265 Avoiding non-posted request deadlocks in devices by holding the sending of requests Carl A. Bender, Jeffrey C. Hanscom 2013-07-23 $2,085,000
8495545 Using direct memory access to initialize a programmable logic device Andrew R. Ranck 2013-07-23 $2,085,000
8407658 Methods, systems, and computer program products for using direct memory access to initialize a programmable logic device Andrew R. Ranck 2013-03-26 $5,395,000
7747902 Synchronizing cross checked processors during initialization by miscompare Bryan K. Tanoue, Jeffrey M. Turner 2010-06-29 $6,113,000
7546596 Non-disruptive method, system and program product for overlaying a first software module with a second software module 2009-06-09 $8,207,000
7392432 Synchronizing cross checked processors during initialization by miscompare Bryan K. Tanoue, Jeffrey M. Turner 2008-06-24 $7,053,000
7167952 Method and system for performing a memory-mode write to cache Krishna Desai, Anil S. Keste, Tin-Chee Lo, Yuk-Ming Ng, Jeffrey M. Turner 2007-01-23 $10,875,000