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Thomas Hess — 17 Patents

IBM: 16 patents #6,980 of 70,183Top 10%
General Motors: 1 patents #9,441 of 18,328Top 55%
Overall (All Time): #263,971 of 4,157,543Top 7%
17 Patents All Time
Thomas Hess has been granted 17 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 2004 and the most recent in October 2023. Thomas Hess ranks #263,971 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 6.3%). Patent records list Thomas Hess in Bad Liebenzell, MI, DE.

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Showing 1–17 of 17 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11777152 Distributed feedback control systems and logic for battery management system (BMS) operation Katherine M. Kolar, Fiona E. Meyer-Teruel, Robert W. Chalfant, Jason A. Lupienski, Michael P. Barker 2023-10-03 $15,798,000
10310927 Operating a trace procedure for a computer program Martin Raitza, Ralf Richter, Philip S. Schulz, Markus Strasser 2019-06-04 $2,774,000
10169282 Bus serialization for devices without multi-device support Harald Freudenberger, Martin Raitza, Philip S. Schulz, Markus Strasser 2019-01-01
9940282 Bus serialization for devices without multi-device support Harald Freudenberger, Martin Raitza, Philip S. Schulz, Markus Strasser 2018-04-10 $2,135,000
9749985 Locating computer-controlled entities Michael J. Andres, Dirk Bolte, Markus Strasser 2017-08-29 $2,195,000
9740658 Bus serialization for devices without multi-device support Harald Freudenberger, Martin Raitza, Philip S. Schulz, Markus Strasser 2017-08-22 $2,056,000
9678821 Operating a trace procedure for a computer program Martin Raitza, Ralf Richter, Philip S. Schulz, Markus Strasser 2017-06-13 $2,356,000
9665528 Bus serialization for devices without multi-device support Harald Freudenberger, Martin Raitza, Philip S. Schulz, Markus Strasser 2017-05-30 $1,983,000
9414351 Locating computer-controlled entities Michael J. Andres, Dirk Bolte, Markus Strasser 2016-08-09 $4,722,000
9335183 Method for reliably operating a sensor Philip S. Schulz, Markus Strasser, Sven Wagner, Constantin Werner 2016-05-10 $4,731,000
9219789 Locating computer-controlled entities Michael J. Andres, Dirk Bolte, Markus Strasser 2015-12-22 $2,572,000
9013304 Locating computer-controlled entities Michael J. Andres, Dirk Bolte, Markus Strasser 2015-04-21 $6,169,000
8862792 Retrieving status information from a remote device and corresponding host system Philip S. Schulz, Markus Strasser, Sven Wagner, Constantin Werner 2014-10-14 $3,785,000
8380910 Out of band location information retrieval Philip S. Schulz, Markus Strasser, Sven Wagner, Constantin Werner 2013-02-19 $3,959,000
7882389 Dynamic reassignment of devices attached to redundant controllers Michael J. Andres, Giovanni Cautillo, Markus Strasser 2011-02-01 $3,711,000
7725612 Method and system for personalized I/O device initialization Janko Boehm, Herwig Elfering, Daniel Metz 2010-05-25 $4,007,000
6760839 Automatic application restart in an embedded environment Janko Boehm, Herwig Elfering, Daniel Metz 2004-07-06 $6,814,000