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Thomas M. Brey — 41 Patents

IBM: 39 patents #2,426 of 70,183Top 4%
LPLenovo (Singapore) Pte.: 2 patents #803 of 1,012Top 80%
Cary, NC: #109 of 3,681 inventorsTop 3%
North Carolina: #799 of 45,564 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #75,001 of 4,157,543Top 2%
41 Patents All Time
Thomas M. Brey has been granted 41 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1993 and the most recent in January 2019. Thomas M. Brey ranks #75,001 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.8%). Patent records list Thomas M. Brey in Cary, NC, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1993 to 2019Bar chart with a peak of 9 patents in 2011.peak 91993: 1 patents19932007: 3 patents2008: 5 patents20082009: 2 patents2010: 6 patents20102011: 9 patents2012: 3 patents20122013: 4 patents2014: 3 patents20142015: 4 patents2019: 1 patents2019

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 41 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10180665 Fluid-cooled computer system with proactive cooling control using power consumption trend analysis Vinod Kamath, Jason A. Matteson 2019-01-15
9110642 Optimization of system acoustic signature and cooling capacity with intelligent user controls Vinod Kamath, Jason A. Matteson, Billy W. Medlin 2015-08-18
9021076 Managing inventory data for components of a server system Christopher Harry Austen, William M. Edmonds, Jeffrey M. Franke, Edward J. Klodnicki, James A. O'Connor +1 more 2015-04-28 $3,749,000
9021097 Unified cloud computing infrastructure to manage and deploy physical and virtual environments Rohith K. Ashok, Raymond J. Harrington, Matt R. Hogstrom, Matthew J. Sheard 2015-04-28 $3,749,000
8984134 Unified cloud computing infrastructure to manage and deploy physical and virtual environments Rohith K. Ashok, Raymond J. Harrington, Matt R. Hogstrom, Matthew J. Sheard 2015-03-17 $4,972,000
8909954 Branch circuit power measurement and dynamic power distribution Malcolm S. Allen-Ware, Wael R. El-Essawy, Alexandre Peixoto Ferreira, Thomas Walter Keller 2014-12-09 $5,061,000
8892714 Managing inventory data for components of a server system Christopher Harry Austen, William M. Edmonds, Jeffrey M. Franke, Edward J. Klodnicki, James A. O'Connor +1 more 2014-11-18 $3,249,000
8677160 Managing power consumption of a computer Wesley M. Felter, Sumeet Kochar, Charles R. Lefurgy, Ryuji Orita, Freeman Leigh Rawson, III +1 more 2014-03-18 $3,993,000
8612793 Dynamic power and performance calibration of data processing systems Andreas Bieswanger, Ajay Dholakia, Andrew Geissler, Hye-Young McCreary, Freeman Leigh Rawson, III +1 more 2013-12-17 $6,242,000
8533512 Dynamic power and performance calibration of data processing systems Malcolm S. Allen-Ware, Andreas Bieswanger, Ajay Dholakia, Andrew Geissler, Hye-Young McCreary +1 more 2013-09-10 $8,933,000
8458499 Method for reducing power state in a computer system out-of-band when a request for reducing the power state is not immediately serviceable in band according to a priority of the request Ajay Dholakia, Scott N. Dunham, Sumeet Kochar 2013-06-04 $4,195,000
8443210 Power management module enforcing computer power capping by reading power cap information from nameplate having both machine readable module and human readable designation for providing such information Justin P. Bandholz, Nickolas J. Gruendler, William G. Pagan, William Joseph Piazza 2013-05-14 $10,375,000
8307220 Managing power consumption of a computer Wesley M. Felter, Sumeet Kochar, Charles R. Lefurgy, Ryuji Orita, Freeman Leigh Rawson, III +1 more 2012-11-06 $8,916,000
8166166 Apparatus system and method for distributing configuration parameter Jesse P. Arroyo, Joseph E. Bolan, Josep Cors, Gregory W. Dake, Scott N. Dunham +2 more 2012-04-24 $8,319,000
8103884 Managing power consumption of a computer Wesley M. Felter, Sumeet Kochar, Charles R. Lefurgy, Ryuji Orita, Freeman Leigh Rawson, III +1 more 2012-01-24 $7,514,000
8028183 Power cap lower bound exploration in a server environment Andreas Bieswanger, Ajay Dholakia, Andrew Geissler, Hye-Young McCreary, Freeman Leigh Rawson, III +1 more 2011-09-27 $6,526,000
8015243 Authenticating a requestor without providing a key Giles R. Frazier, Gregory F. Pfister, William J. Rooney 2011-09-06 $5,472,000
8006108 Dynamic selection of group and device power limits William Joseph Piazza 2011-08-23 $4,386,000
7933739 Automated analysis of datacenter layout using temperature sensor positions Simon Chu, Richard E. Harper, William Joseph Piazza 2011-04-26 $6,102,000
7925911 Managing computer power among a plurality of computers Raymond M. Clemo, Beth Loebach, Gregory J. McKnight 2011-04-12 $5,593,000
7921203 Specifying associations among attributes of entities in Richard E. Harper, William Joseph Piazza 2011-04-05 $6,033,000
7917792 System for modulating signals over power lines to understand the power distribution tree Brad L. Brech 2011-03-29 $5,031,000
7886027 Methods and arrangements for activating IP configurations Joseph E. Bolan, Brandon J. Ellison, Aaron Merkin 2011-02-08 $4,016,000
7882562 Apparatus, system, and method for deploying iSCSI parameters to a diskless computing device Jesse P. Arroyo, Joseph E. Bolan, Josep Cors, Gregory W. Dake, Scott N. Dunham +2 more 2011-02-01 $3,711,000
7818413 Authenticating a requestor without providing a key Giles R. Frazier, Gregory F. Pfister, William J. Rooney 2010-10-19 $3,706,000