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Eric B. Tamura — 23 Patents

Apple: 22 patents #1,475 of 18,612Top 8%
Sunnyvale, CA: #1,074 of 14,302 inventorsTop 8%
California: #24,547 of 386,348 inventorsTop 7%
Overall (All Time): #178,160 of 4,157,543Top 5%
23 Patents All Time
Eric B. Tamura has been granted 23 US patents while listed as an inventor at Apple. The first was granted in 2013 and the most recent in October 2025. Eric B. Tamura ranks #178,160 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.3%). Patent records list Eric B. Tamura in Sunnyvale, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2013 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2019.peak 42013: 2 patents20132014: 3 patents2015: 1 patents20152016: 1 patents2017: 2 patents20172018: 1 patents2019: 4 patents20192020: 1 patents2021: 2 patents20212022: 1 patents2023: 2 patents20232024: 1 patents2025: 2 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–23 of 23 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12450380 File system metadata protection Wade Benson, John J. Garvey 2025-10-21
12210612 Techniques for managing software applications Geoffrey McCormack, Damien P. Sorresso, Robert J. Kendall-Kuppe 2025-01-28
12164901 Patching code aligned with an executing base operating system Damien P. Sorresso, Ezekiel T. Runyon 2024-12-10 $286,613,000
11809584 File system metadata protection Wade Benson, John Garvey 2023-11-07 $200,618,000
11609898 Ensuring consistent metadata across computing devices Meha N. Desai 2023-03-21 $350,450,000
11385816 Systems and methods for implementing improved links between paths of one or more file systems Vivek Verma, Damien P. Sorresso, Pavel Sokolov, Pierre-Olivier J. Martel, Yoni Baron 2022-07-12 $249,045,000
11194920 File system metadata protection Wade Benson, John Garvey 2021-12-07 $375,732,000
11132134 Flexible over-provisioning of storage space within solid-state storage devices (SSDs) Meha N. Desai 2021-09-28 $352,851,000
10592679 Support for changing encryption classes of files Kelly B. Yancey 2020-03-17 $72,009,000
10509701 Performing data backups using snapshots Dominic Giampaolo 2019-12-17 $147,076,000
10454679 File system support for rolling keys on file extents Dominic Giampaolo, Kelly B. Yancey 2019-10-22 $134,663,000
10452859 File system metadata protection Wade Benson, John Garvey 2019-10-22 $134,663,000
10423572 Performing live updates to file system volumes Eric S. Brown 2019-09-24 $183,092,000
10032038 File system support for rolling keys Christopher James Suter, George K. Colley, Mark S. Day 2018-07-24 $82,743,000
9813389 System and method for wireless data protection Conrad Sauerwald, Vrajesh Bhavsar, Kenneth B. McNeil, Thomas Brogan Duffy, Jr., Michael Brouwer +2 more 2017-11-07 $107,671,000
9727570 Mount-time unmapping of unused logical addresses in non-volatile memory systems Daniel J. Post, Vadim Khmelnitsky, Nir Jacob Wakrat, Matthew J. Byom 2017-08-08 $69,938,000
9401898 System and method for wireless data protection Conrad Sauerwald, Vrajesh Bhavsar, Kenneth B. McNeil, Thomas Brogan Duffy, Jr., Michael Brouwer +2 more 2016-07-26 $110,891,000
8972690 Methods and apparatuses for usage based allocation block size tuning Deric S. Horn, Donald Brady, David Alexander Majnemer 2015-03-03
8886963 Secure relocation of encrypted files Conrad Sauerwald, Daniel J. Post, Matthew J. Byom, Puja Gupta 2014-11-11 $85,451,000
8751523 Snapshot based search Donald Brady 2014-06-10 $68,434,000
8661189 Systems and methods for trimming logical block addresses corresponding to a data structure residing in non-volatile memory Daniel J. Post, Matthew J. Byom, Neil G. Crane, Kenneth Louis Herman, Francois Barbou-des-Place 2014-02-25 $91,032,000
8510552 System and method for file-level data protection Dallas B. De Atley, Gordon J. Freedman, Thomas Brogan Duffy, Jr., John Andrew Wright, Vrajesh Bhavsar +6 more 2013-08-13 $108,724,000
8504792 Methods and apparatuses to allocate file storage via tree representations of a bitmap David Alexander Majnemer 2013-08-06 $77,314,000