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2016
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Michael Zappe
MZ
Michael Zappe
— 4 Patents in 2016
LS
Longitude Enterprise Flash S.A.R.L.
:
2
patents
#2
of
11
Top 20%
ST
Sandisk Technologies
:
1
patents
#450
of
566
Top 80%
BU
Brigham Young University
:
1
patents
#18
of
69
Top 30%
MO
Moxtek
:
1
patents
#16
of
24
Top 70%
Wheat Ridge, CO
:
#1
of
11
inventors
Top 10%
Colorado
:
#262
of
4,945
inventors
Top 6%
Overall
(2016):
#37,891
of
481,213
Top 8%
4
Patents 2016
Issued Patents
2016
Showing
1–4
of
4
patents
Patent #
Title
Co-Inventors
Date
9519594
Apparatus, system, and method for solid-state storage as cache for high-capacity, non-volatile storage
David Flynn
,
John Strasser
,
Jonathan Thatcher
2016-12-13
9454492
Systems and methods for storage parallelism
David Flynn
,
Bert Lagerstedt
,
John Strasser
,
Jonathan Thatcher
,
John Walker
2016-09-27
9305735
Reinforced polymer x-ray window
Steven D. Liddiard
,
Charles R. Jensen
,
Keith Decker
,
Robert C. Davis
,
Lei Pei
+1 more
2016-04-05
9274937
Systems, methods, and interfaces for vector input/output operations
Ashish Batwara
,
James G. Peterson
,
Nisha Talagala
,
Nick Piggin
2016-03-01
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