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Daniel L. Helmick — 15 Patents in 2021

WTWestern Digital Technologies: 13 patents #8 of 736Top 2%
STSandisk Technologies: 2 patents #96 of 332Top 30%
Broomfield, CO: #1 of 205 inventorsTop 1%
Colorado: #12 of 5,235 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (2021): #3,707 of 548,734Top 1%
15 Patents 2021

Issued Patents 2021

Showing 1–15 of 15 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11211141 Storage system with multiple components and method for use therewith Martin Lueker-Boden 2021-12-28
11210027 Weighting of read commands to zones in storage devices Liam Michael Parker 2021-12-28 $10,337,000
11209989 Zoned namespaces in solid-state drives Matias Bjørling, Horst-Christoph Georg HELLWIG, David Landsman, Liam Michael Parker, Alan David Bennett +2 more 2021-12-28 $10,337,000
11200003 Bounded latency and command non service methods and apparatus Neil David Hutchison, Peter Grayson, Xinde Hu, Rodney Brittner 2021-12-14 $13,012,000
11200162 Condensing logical to physical table pointers in SSDs utilizing zoned namespaces Liam Michael Parker, Alan David Bennett, Horst-Christoph Georg HELLWIG 2021-12-14 $13,012,000
11200161 Keeping zones open with intermediate padding Alan David Bennett, Liam Michael Parker 2021-12-14 $13,012,000
11194494 Storage devices hiding parity swapping behavior Sergey Anatolievich Gorobets, Peter Grayson 2021-12-07 $16,599,000
11194521 Rate limit on the transitions of streams to open Sergey Anatolievich Gorobets, Liam Michael Parker 2021-12-07 $16,599,000
11170869 Dual data protection in storage devices Gerrit Jan Hemink 2021-11-09 $8,167,000
11138066 Parity swapping to DRAM Sergey Anatolievich Gorobets, Liam Michael Parker, Alan David Bennett, Peter Grayson 2021-10-05 $15,012,000
11126378 Rate limit on the transitions of zones to open Liam Michael Parker, Sergey Anatolievich Gorobets 2021-09-21 $9,659,000
11061620 Bandwidth limiting in solid state drives James P. Walsh 2021-07-13 $17,157,000
11055176 Storage devices hiding parity swapping behavior Peter Grayson, Sergey Anatolievich Gorobets 2021-07-06 $17,393,000
10908986 Multi-level recovery reads for memory Robert W. Ellis 2021-02-02
10896089 System level data-loss protection using storage device local buffers Paul D. Martin 2021-01-19 $15,953,000