Mon 12 Dec 2005
Indian American becomes youngest IBM Fellow with 300 patents
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NetIndia123: Indian American becomes youngest IBM Fellow with 300 patents
An Indian American has been earmarked as the youngest ever-IBM fellow with more than 300 patents and has been listed as the top ten living patent holders in the United States.
Mr Ravi Arimilli is a researcher, based in Austin, Texas, who specialises in computer chip innards. His most recent patent issued on November 29 is for ”Layered local cache with lower level cache optimising allocation mechnaism”.
In 2002 alone, Mr Arimilli won 78 patents. That is three patents every two weeks. He is pushing ahead as chief scientist on the 500-person Power 7 eServer development team.
In case you don’t know what an “IBM Fellow” is, read Wikipedia’s entry: IBM Fellow
Tags:No TagsAn IBM Fellow is an appointed position at IBM made by IBM’s CEO. Typically only 4 or 5 IBM Fellows are appointed each year, at the annual Corporate Technical Recognition Event (CTRE) event in June. It is considered to be the highest honor a technologist at IBM can achieve.