Inventor award: first disclosure approved for a US patent filing
IBM approved my first invention disclosure for filing with the US patent office and gave me its inventor award.
- Leadership
The call
Turn a product observation into a patentable invention.
What I did
Wrote the disclosure 'Determining and conveying availability'.
What changed
Approved for US filing in July 2010; filed that December; granted as US patent 8,560,487.
Proof
The original documents are held in my private record and can be shared on request.