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Derek Beard — 6 Patents in 2023

Broadcom: 5 patents #76 of 1,481Top 6%
NENetapp: 1 patents #307 of 313Top 100%
Austin, TX: #139 of 3,047 inventorsTop 5%
Texas: #614 of 16,648 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (2023): #23,250 of 537,848Top 5%
6 Patents 2023

Issued Patents 2023

Showing 1–6 of 6 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11822949 Guest cluster deployed as virtual extension of management cluster in a virtualized computing system Zachary James SHEPHERD, George Hicken, Mark Russell Johnson, Jared Sean Rosoff, Joseph Stephen Beda +1 more 2023-11-21 $17,067,000
11762681 Dynamic configuration of virtual objects Avinash Goud, Aniket Avinash Sakhardande, Praveen Vegulla, Rajesh Venkatasubramanian, Maarten Wiggers +1 more 2023-09-19 $17,952,000
11720382 Declarative VM management for a container orchestrator in a virtualized computing system Jared Sean Rosoff, Mark Russell Johnson, Brian Charles Forney 2023-08-08 $10,495,000
11681668 System and method for developing and implementing a migration plan for migrating a file system Greg Althaus, Jason D. Preston, Duen-Wen Hsiao, Alfred G. Prinz, III, Fountain L. Ray, III +1 more 2023-06-20 $27,871,000
11593139 Software compatibility checking for managed clusters in a virtualized computing system Brian Charles Forney, Mark Russell Johnson, Zachary James SHEPHERD 2023-02-28 $8,502,000
11556373 Pod deployment in a guest cluster executing as a virtual extension of management cluster in a virtualized computing system Zachary James SHEPHERD, Mark Russell Johnson 2023-01-17 $37,702,000