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Thomas Freund — 32 Patents

IBM: 26 patents #4,017 of 70,183Top 6%
PGPepperl+Fuchs Gmbh: 4 patents #6 of 102Top 6%
PSPepperl+Fuchs Se: 1 patents #5 of 24Top 25%
Longmont, CO: #70 of 2,039 inventorsTop 4%
Colorado: #956 of 40,980 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #110,428 of 4,157,543Top 3%
32 Patents All Time
Thomas Freund has been granted 32 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1982 and the most recent in October 2021. Thomas Freund ranks #110,428 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.7%). Patent records list Thomas Freund in Longmont, CO, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1982 to 2021Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 1999.peak 41982: 1 patents19821988: 1 patents1992: 1 patents19921994: 1 patents1995: 1 patents19951998: 2 patents1999: 4 patents19992000: 3 patents2001: 2 patents20012003: 1 patents2004: 1 patents20042007: 1 patents2008: 1 patents20082011: 2 patents2012: 1 patents20122013: 1 patents2014: 3 patents20142015: 1 patents2020: 3 patents20202021: 1 patents2021

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 32 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11143300 Clamping device with inductive monitoring unit Enrico Schulz 2021-10-12
10710205 Query unit for toggle lever clamp 2020-07-14
10688626 Sensor for power clamp 2020-06-23
10536530 Networked gate machines gaging the condition of unmanned platforms 2020-01-14
9065835 Redirecting web content Travis M. Grigsby, Albert A. Lamb, Lee M. Surprenant 2015-06-23 $4,496,000
8903548 Position finding system Timo Galm 2014-12-02
8850556 Interactive video captcha Travis M. Grisby, Albert A. Lamb, Lee M. Surprenant 2014-09-30 $5,320,000
8726079 Handling of messages in a message system Ian S. Robinson 2014-05-13 $6,724,000
8429451 Method of handling a message Ian S. Robinson 2013-04-23 $7,839,000
8285775 Expedited transaction failure handling by leveraging a reliable message transport protocol to assist detection of discarded processing Ian S. Robinson 2012-10-09 $6,551,000
8006900 Price guarantee tracking service Travis M. Grigsby, Albert A. Lamb, Lee M. Surprenant 2011-08-30 $4,619,000
7979538 Redirecting web downloads Travis M. Grigsby, Albert A. Lamb, Lee M. Surprenant 2011-07-12 $4,098,000
7349970 Workload management of stateful program entities Andrew Simon Clement, Ann Eleanor Dalton, Barry L. Dickinson, Jonathan Peter Hoare Lawrence, Ian J. Mitchell +3 more 2008-03-25 $5,860,000
7245121 Device and method for determining the path of a target Heiko Hoebel 2007-07-17
6829575 Enterprise javabeans container R. Anthony Storey 2004-12-07 $6,343,000
6505250 Apparatus and method for scheduling and dispatching queued client requests within a server in a client/server computer system Iain Stuart Caldwell Houston 2003-01-07 $16,905,000
6317773 System and method for creating an object oriented transaction service that interoperates with procedural transaction coordinators Edward Ellis Cobb, Simon Antony James Holdsworth, Iain Stuart Caldwell Houston, Stanley Alan Smith 2001-11-13 $32,487,000
6289343 Apparatus and method for performing semantic concurrency control in dispatching client requests within a server in a client/server computer system Iain Stuart Caldwell Houston 2001-09-11
6161145 Updating server-related data at a client Andrew Bainbridge, Stephen James Cocks, Donald F. Ferguson, Avraham Leff, Glyn Normington +2 more 2000-12-12 $56,886,000
6138169 System and method for creating an object oriented transaction service that achieves interoperability with encina procedural transactions Simon Anthony James Holdsworth, Stanley Alan Smith 2000-10-24 $26,546,000
6014700 Workload management in a client-server network with distributed objects Andrew Bainbridge, Stephen James Cocks, Donald F. Ferguson, Avraham Leff, Glyn Normington +2 more 2000-01-11 $34,320,000
5956506 System and method for functionally enhancing procedural software using objects Edward Ellis Cobb, Simon Anthony James Holdsworth, Iain Stuart Caldwell Houston, Stanley Alan Smith 1999-09-21 $27,467,000
5925098 Apparatus and method for dispatching client method calls within a server computer system Simon Antony James Holdsworth, Iain Stuart Caldwell Houston 1999-07-20 $27,822,000
5923833 Restart and recovery of OMG-compliant transaction systems Simon Antony James Holdsworth, Iain Stuart Caldwell Houston, Robert Anthony Storey 1999-07-13 $29,937,000
5893912 Thread context manager for relational databases, method and computer program product for implementing thread context management for relational databases Robert Howard High, Jr., Gordon D. Hutchison, Martin Mulholland, Charlie James Redlin, Peter J. Schommer +1 more 1999-04-13 $29,035,000