Patents: An Introduction

Published: Nov. 30, 2012, 8 a.m.

Dr. Ruthie Lyle is currently the Technical Project Manager for the IBMSmartCloud, SaaS Web Delivery Platform. She joined IBM in 1999 shortly after becoming the first African American woman to earn a doctorate in Electrical Engineering from Polytechnic Institute of New York University (Poly-NYU). Dr. Lyle's career experience with IBM spans assignments in Intellectual Property Strategy and Monetization as well as Software Development and Hardware Development. She is a registered Patent Agent, and the Team Lead Emeritus of IBM's Smarter Planet Invention Review Team. Dr. Lyle is an IBM Master Inventor with 60 issued US patents and over 170+ pending patent applications making her the leading African American female inventor in the US.