Tom Kondo was promoted to Distinguished Technologist at Hewlett-Packard in August 2011. The Distinguished Technologist position recognizes technologists that have made contributions in research and business with an impact across multiple Global Business Units and have had significant revenue impact on business. In addition Tom was recently granted patent 7,933,966 for "Method and system of copying a memory area between processor elements for lock-step execution" Tom is the primary inventor on seven patents so far and another being filed now.