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Tim Oswald — 13 Patents

IBM: 13 patents #8,610 of 70,183Top 15%
Gimbsheim, DE: #2 of 5 inventorsTop 40%
Overall (All Time): #362,438 of 4,157,543Top 9%
13 Patents All Time
Tim Oswald has been granted 13 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 2017 and the most recent in April 2022. Tim Oswald ranks #362,438 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 8.7%). Patent records list Tim Oswald in Gimbsheim, DE.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2017 to 2022Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2018.peak 32017: 1 patents20172018: 3 patents20182019: 3 patents20192020: 3 patents20202021: 2 patents20212022: 1 patents2022

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–13 of 13 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11294575 Tape library initiated media verification Bernd Freitag, Frank Krick, Harald Seipp 2022-04-05 $5,706,000
11074121 Predicting failure of a magnetic tape head element Marcus Breuer, Frank Krick, Bernd Freitag 2021-07-27 $4,187,000
11061568 Variable operation tape performance Marcus Breuer, Frank Krick, Bernd Freitag 2021-07-13 $4,436,000
10614844 Adjustable magnetic tape drive Marcus Breuer, Frank Krick, Juergen Beck, Bernd Freitag 2020-04-07 $1,846,000
10600433 Distributing tape drive abrasion Marcus Breuer, Bernd Freitag, Frank Krick 2020-03-24 $1,716,000
10547994 Storage elements with label identification for a warehouse Marcus Breuer, Bernd Freitag, Frank Krick 2020-01-28 $1,679,000
10395681 Adjustable magnetic tape drive Marcus Breuer, Frank Krick, Juergen Beck, Bernd Freitag 2019-08-27 $1,335,000
10395677 Distributing tape drive abrasion Marcus Breuer, Bernd Freitag, Frank Krick 2019-08-27 $1,335,000
10353600 Tape library initiated media verification Bernd Freitag, Frank Krick, Harald Seipp 2019-07-16 $4,107,000
10069896 Data transfer via a data storage drive Bernd Freitag, Brian G. Goodman, Frank Krick 2018-09-04 $2,923,000
10062399 Distributing tape drive abrasion Marcus Breuer, Bernd Freitag, Frank Krick 2018-08-28 $3,847,000
10014017 Tape drive with independent transverse motion of transducer and transducer housing Marcus Breuer, Bernd Freitag, Frank Krick 2018-07-03 $3,207,000
9824720 Tape cartridge identification Marcus Breuer, Bernd Freitag, Frank Krick 2017-11-21 $3,803,000