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Thomas McCarthy — 8 Patents

IBM: 8 patents #13,181 of 70,183Top 20%
Durham, NC: #669 of 4,103 inventorsTop 20%
North Carolina: #6,637 of 45,564 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #600,572 of 4,157,543Top 15%
8 Patents All Time
Thomas McCarthy has been granted 8 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1991 and the most recent in September 2016. Thomas McCarthy ranks #600,572 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 14.4%). Patent records list Thomas McCarthy in Durham, NC, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1991 to 2016Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2016.peak 21991: 1 patents19911994: 1 patents19941995: 1 patents19952001: 1 patents20012008: 1 patents20082011: 1 patents20112016: 2 patents2016

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–8 of 8 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9442746 Common system services for managing configuration and other runtime settings of applications Kimberly T. Bailey, Michael W. Stayton 2016-09-13 $4,023,000
9389883 Common system services for managing configuration and other runtime settings of applications Kimberly T. Bailey, Michael W. Stayton 2016-07-12 $3,552,000
8055091 Method of filtering pixels in a video encoding process Krishna C. Ratakonda, Cesar A. Gonzales, Thomas A. Horvath 2011-11-08 $3,097,000
7359565 Method of filtering pixels in a video encoding process Krishna C. Ratakonda, Cesar A. Gonzales, Thomas A. Horvath 2008-04-15 $8,007,000
6181742 Single pass target allocation for video encoding Rajesh Rajagopalan, Cesar A. Gonzales 2001-01-30 $13,187,000
5450599 Sequential pipelined processing for the compression and decompression of image data Thomas A. Horvath, Norman H. Kreitzer, Andy G. Lean 1995-09-12 $5,751,000
5289577 Process-pipeline architecture for image/video processing Cesar A. Gonzales, Thomas A. Horvath, Norman H. Kreitzer, Andy G. Lean 1994-02-22 $8,202,000
5001559 Transform coding using coefficient prediction techniques Cesar A. Gonzales 1991-03-19 $9,122,000