Celebrate International Women’s Day – Inside the Mind of IBM’s Most Prolific Female Inventor
Mashable – BY CHLOE SCHNEIDER MAR 16, 2016
Lisa Seacat Deluca, mobile software engineer and the most prolific female inventor in IBM’s history, believes that we all have an inventor in us. Although that may be true, this woman –- who has filed over 420 patents with over 225 issued so far — is undeniably an inventor on another level.
This mother of four has spent her life tinkering with everyday annoyances to build a more seamless, interesting and enjoyable world. She’s created a light board that lights up based on patterns drawn on your phone, a device that alerts you to the fact that your laundry is done and so much more.
Lisa is a Technology Strategist for IBM Commerce. She holds a Masters of Science in Technology Commercialization from the University of Texas McCombs School of Business, and a Bachelors of Science in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University with minors in Business Administration and Multimedia Productions. In 2016, Lisa was named one of the Most Influential Women in IoT. In 2015, she was named one of MIT’s 35 Innovators Under 35, LinkedIn’s NextWave of 10 Enterprise Technologists Under 35, one of Fast Company’s 100 Most Creative People in Business, and IBM’s Working Mother of the Year for Working Mother Magazine. In 2014, she was named one of Network World’s 50 Most Fascinating People in the World of Technology. She is a TED speaker, a self-published author of two children’s book titled “A Robot Story” and “The Internet of Mysterious Things”, and the most prolific female inventor in IBM history and, at only 34 years old, one of the youngest inventors at IBM to ever reach the 100th Invention Plateau Award (an IBM internal patent award system). Her innovation portfolio includes over 700 patent applications filed within the United States and abroad, of which, 250 have been granted, to date. The subject of her patent ideas range from areas such as cloud, mobile, IoT, social, security, cognitive, commerce and everything in between. Lisa is an AAAS-Lemelson Inventor Ambassador where she increases visibility to the importance of innovation. Lisa has spoken at numerous tech conferences and written articles to share her technology and innovation passion with others.