IP Enginuity

Profiles

Kurt Humphrey

IP Enginuity LLC (IPE) was founded by Kurt Humphrey to bring a new perspective to intellectual property-related engineering services. Kurt’s broad professional experience is a key asset in addressing the varied needs and circumstances of IPE’s clients.

Mr. Humphrey brings over 25 years of industrial engineering, technology assessment, and patent evaluation experience to IPE. Kurt has held key technical positions with several respected high-tech corporations including Philips Research Laboratories (Eindhoven, NL), AT&T Technologies, United Technologies and Rockwell International. His Areas of technical expertise include microelectronic devices and their fabrication, e.g. silicon and compound semiconductors, passives, MEMS, sensors, photonics, and displays, as well as chemicals, materials, coatings and films. Kurt is also an accomplished inventor and was granted several patents in the areas of oxygen sensors, MEMS and semiconductor process technology as a result of his innovative work with General Motors Corporation, United Technologies and Rockwell Science Center. In his most recent position as Director of Engineering Programs at TAEUS International, Kurt managed numerous patent evaluation and product investigation projects across a broad array of technologies for many Global 100 high-tech companies in the US, Europe, Japan and Korea. Mr. Humphrey holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Ceramic Engineering from the University of Missouri.