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Thomas S. Lee — 20 Patents

IBM: 10 patents #10,925 of 70,183Top 20%
STSymyx Technologies: 8 patents #47 of 198Top 25%
Caltech: 1 patents #2,143 of 4,321Top 50%
Folsom, CA: #119 of 1,500 inventorsTop 8%
California: #29,208 of 386,348 inventorsTop 8%
Overall (All Time): #214,803 of 4,157,543Top 6%
20 Patents All Time
Thomas S. Lee has been granted 20 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1991 and the most recent in August 2011. Thomas S. Lee ranks #214,803 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.2%). Patent records list Thomas S. Lee in Folsom, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1991 to 2011Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2002.peak 41991: 1 patents19911998: 2 patents1999: 2 patents19992001: 2 patents2002: 4 patents20022003: 2 patents2004: 1 patents20042005: 3 patents2006: 1 patents20062008: 1 patents2011: 1 patents2011

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–20 of 20 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8010887 Implementing versioning support for data using a two-table approach that maximizes database efficiency Steven Soria, Jr., Donald Allan Weil, Gerald Edward Kozina, Chenhuei J. Chiang, Lynda A. Hansen +1 more 2011-08-30 $4,619,000
7409401 Method and system for supporting multivalue attributes in a database system Lynda A. Hansen, Mayank V. Shah 2008-08-05 $7,485,000
7113947 Data processing system Donald Edward Benson, Philip Lester Flowers, Chris Lee, Mayank V. Shah, Shirley Wang 2006-09-26 $6,900,000
6976383 Apparatus for high temperature withdrawal or dispensing of fluids Miroslav Petro, Adam Safir, Ralph B. Nielsen, G. Cameron Dales, Eric Carlson 2005-12-20 $6,891,000
6886016 Method and system for supporting multivalue attributes in a database system Lynda A. Hansen, Mayank V. Shah 2005-04-26 $8,819,000
6871203 Data processing system Donald Edward Benson, Philip Lester Flowers, Chris Lee, Mayank V. Shah, Shirley Wang 2005-03-22 $9,449,000
6778978 Determining a workbasket identification for an item in a data store 2004-08-17 $5,840,000
6584832 High-temperature characterization of polymer libraries Miroslav Petro, Adam Safir, Ralph B. Nielsen, G. Cameron Dales, Eric Carlson 2003-07-01 $7,036,000
6577392 Characterization of non-biological polymers using flow-injection analysis with light-scattering detection Ralph B. Nielsen, Sigrid C. Kuebler, Adam Safir, Miroslav Petro 2003-06-10 $3,506,000
6492184 Automated sampling methods with integral serial sample preparation for rapid characterization of polymers Miroslav Petro, Adam Safir, Ralph B. Nielsen 2002-12-10 $2,016,000
6475391 Rapid characterization of polymers for combinatorial, analytical and process control applications Adam Safir, Miroslav Petro, Ralph B. Nielsen, Jean M. J. Frechet 2002-11-05 $2,956,000
6406632 Rapid characterization of polymers Adam Safir, Miroslav Petro, Ralph B. Nielsen, Jean M. J. Frechet 2002-06-18 $6,163,000
6381629 Technique for creating a unique item identification number in a multi-threaded/multi-process environment 2002-04-30 $15,490,000
6265226 Automated sampling methods for rapid characterization of polymers Miroslav Petro, Adam Safir, Ralph B. Nielsen 2001-07-24 $6,442,000
6260407 High-temperature characterization of polymers Miroslav Petro, Adam Safir, Ralph B. Nielsen, G. Cameron Dales, Eric Carlson 2001-07-17 $12,529,000
5940594 Distributed storage management system having a cache server and method therefor Seifu Ali, Thomas G. Burket, Tawei Hu, Gerald Edward Kozina 1999-08-17 $20,828,000
5896506 Distributed storage management system having a cache server and method therefor Seifu Ali, Thomas G. Burket, Tawei Hu, Gerald Edward Kozina 1999-04-20 $26,173,000
5802524 Method and product for integrating an object-based search engine with a parametrically archived database Philip Lester Flowers, Stefan Raimund Orban, Roland Seiffert, Mandy L. Wang 1998-09-01 $8,247,000
5737500 Mobile dexterous siren degree of freedom robot arm with real-time control system Homayoun Seraji, David Chong Sook Lim 1998-04-07
D316389 Bottle for attachment to a bicycle Daniel H. Wood 1991-04-23