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IBM Corporation

527Patents
7Active
527Granted
47Portfolio score

Filing activity: Mar 30, 1971 → Dec 19, 2017 · 2 expiring within 5 years

Most-cited patents

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US4642618A Tool failure detector Performing Operations; Transporting 1,006 Expired
US5586264A Video optimized media streamer with cache management Physics 504 Expired
US4975690A Method for concurrent data entry and manipulation in multiple applications Physics 487 Expired
US3956615A Transaction execution system with secure data storage and communications Physics 454 Expired
US4866769A Hardware assist for protecting PC software Physics 310 Expired
US5610821A Optimal and stable route planning system Physics 294 Expired
US5594910A Interactive computer network and method of operation Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 293 Expired
US5786626A Thin radio frequency transponder with leadframe antenna structure Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 290 Expired
US5219788A Bilayer metallization cap for photolithography Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 286 Expired
US4793895A In situ conductivity monitoring technique for chemical/mechanical planarization endpoint detection Physics 273 Expired
US4615011A Iterative method for establishing connections and resulting product Physics 258 Expired
US5567300A Electrochemical metal removal technique for planarization of surfaces Chemistry; Metallurgy 255 Expired
US5734893A Progressive content-based retrieval of image and video with adaptive and iterative refinement Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 252 Expired
US5146566A Input/output system for computer user interface using magnetic levitation Physics 248 Expired
US4418425A Encryption using destination addresses in a TDMA satellite communications network Electricity 247 Expired
US6525731B1 Dynamic view-dependent texture mapping Physics 244 Expired
US5063500A System for executing segments of application program concurrently/serially on different/same virtual machine Physics 240 Expired
US5809471A Retrieval of additional information not found in interactive TV or telephony signal by application using dynamically extracted vocabulary Electricity 221 Expired
US3970992A Transaction terminal with unlimited range of functions Physics 216 Expired
US4722653A Material handling for automated assembly facility Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 201 Expired
US5001697A Method to automatically vary displayed object size with variations in window size Physics 199 Expired
US6618704B2 System and method of teleconferencing with the deaf or hearing-impaired Physics 195 Expired
US6239851A Planar light source device having polarization separator formed of two sheets with mating triangular prisms and different indices of refraction Physics 186 Expired
US5539741A Audio conferenceing system Electricity 185 Expired
US6366945B1 Flexible dynamic partitioning of resources in a cluster computing environment Physics 178 Expired

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Counts and citation impact are objective bibliographic measures.