Fred Thomas Email & Phone Number

Palo Alto, CA, US

Strategic and PoC level evaluation of emerging technologies as innovation enablers and customer differentiators for Z Workstations and embedded compute edge products.

Palo Alto, CA, US

• ACS Technical Patent Coordinator -Fred leads the ACS Patent Review Committee. He gives IP guidance to less experienced patent committee participants, holds periodic patent scrubs prior to a product launch, and tracks.
• Innovation Friday – Open forum for ACS employees to champion their ideas
• PoC Friday – Forum for sharing of progress on proof-of-concept ideas by teams
• IP and Patent Friday – Discussion and learning about intellectual property and patents
• Patent Disclosure Friday – Created recently to provide exposure to the wider ACS of recently filed patent disclosures and what is involved.
• Innovation Insights Friday – Marketing and product planning; share customer insights with wider ACS team.

Palo Alto, CA, US

Fred has been and is the technical and engineering lead for multiple emerging technology product initiatives within HP ACS. Fred’s broad and deep technology and engineering capabilities along with his proven innovation acumen are demonstrated in this role. When ACS has an emerging technology based product concept to be developed and proven out, Fred is.

Palo Alto, CA, US

• Leopard Electro-Optical (EO) Digital Pen Program (2015-2016) – Joint venture with Swedish digital pen company Anoto.Fred was the HP technical lead and architect for this program. A HP R&D team of six was engaged.
• DIGITAL PEN SENSOR SURFACE – US Patent # 11836304
• CALIBRATION OF AN INPUT DEVICE TO A DISPLAY USING THE INPUT DEVICE – US Patent # 10558299
• A DIFFUSIVE EMISSIVE DISPLAY – US Patent # 10429950
• VISIBLY OPAQUE AND NEAR INFRARED TRANSPARENT DISPLAY BORDER WITH UNDERLYING ENCODED PATTERN – US Patent # 10620716
• DISPLAY INCLUDING HOT MIRROR – US Patent # 10459574

Palo Alto, CA, US

Fred was a senior touch technologist for the premium Notebook Group. During this period Fred worked with supplier Synaptics to develop the FocrePad for HP laptops. Fred wrote the HP specification for the ForcePad® and saw it through successful introduction in HP NB computers. Fred was integral to the co-development of that technology with Synaptics and was.

Palo Alto, CA, US

Fred was asked to provide leadership and responsibility for engaging small groups of HP Desktop innovation teams to deliver innovative differentiation centric to near-term (< 2 years) future HP Desktop computer products. He was also responsible for effective and timely communication of these innovation efforts back to the DTO management chain. He provided.

Palo Alto, CA, US

• HP Principal Hardware Architect for these MediaSmart Home Server products.Fred moved on to heading up the architecture/design and management of the system, mechanical, thermal and industrial design for the HP.
• Title: Drive carrier for computer systems Patent #: 7,639,492
• Title: Network attached storage (NAS) server having a plurality of automated media portals Patent #: 7,797,396
• Title: Operating system recovery across a network Patent #: 7,734,959

Round Rock, Texas, US

• Fred was Iomega Corporation’s Chief Technologist in Advanced R&D where he achieved this standing and role at an industry leading and multi-billion-dollar revenue data storage company through both his innovation.
• 1995-2005 - One of the inventors of the ZIP drive. This invention drove Iomega Corporation’s revenues from $100 million/yr. to $2 billion/yr. (20x) over a two-year period.
• 2002-2010 – Inventor of a new form of optical data storage: “Subwavelength Optical Data Storage.” Please Google the topic to find out more about this invention of Fred's.
• 1998-2002 - Inventor of the Clik! Drive (micro-cartridge flexible magnetic media data storage). Evidence: see US patent #s 6,587,304 - 6,785,091.
• 2003-2010 - Holder of the most basic patent in removal hard platter magnetic cartridge data storage. “Removable cartridge recording device incorporating antiferromagnetically coupled rigid magnetic media.”
• 2002-2010 - Inventor of the magnetic head cleaning mechanism for the Iomega REV drive.

ProtoType Devices - Build custom instruments and productivity devices under contract. Camera test systems, machine vision systems and gas loggers.

Dallas, TX, US

Fred spent five years with Texas Instrument Defense Systems (now part of Raytheon) working as an electro-optical systems engineer. He designed and modelled, via software he coded, TV imaging systems, infrared thermal imaging systems, and laser rangefinder and designator systems. In one of his roles while at TI, Fred was promoted to the lead laser.

Gaithersburg, MD, US

Student intern at the highly selective NIST. Worked on creating data logging systems for heat pumps to record their performance and publish results. Offered full-time job at NIST upon graduation.

Zurich, ZH, CH

Washington, DC, US

Master’S Degree, Control Systems & Non-Linear Dynamics

Bs Mechanical Eng., Physics & Mechanical Engineering

B.A. Physics, Physics