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Lance Flake — 18 Patents

Broadcom: 8 patents #1,328 of 9,346Top 15%
MAMaxtor: 3 patents #132 of 656Top 25%
SSStmicroelectronics Sa: 3 patents #1,912 of 1,676Top 115%
ADAdaptec: 1 patents #154 of 322Top 50%
WTWestern Digital Technologies: 1 patents #1,874 of 3,180Top 60%
RTX (Raytheon): 1 patents #8,290 of 15,912Top 55%
Longmont, CO: #163 of 2,039 inventorsTop 8%
Colorado: #2,271 of 40,980 inventorsTop 6%
Overall (All Time): #245,716 of 4,157,543Top 6%
18 Patents All Time
Lance Flake has been granted 18 US patents while listed as an inventor at Broadcom. The first was granted in 1991 and the most recent in February 2017. Lance Flake ranks #245,716 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.9%). Patent records list Lance Flake in Longmont, CO, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–18 of 18 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9581978 Electronic system with servo management mechanism and method of operation thereof 2017-02-28 $23,188,000
8990471 Modular integrated circuit with common interface Mark Fullerton, Robert Paul Morris, Lawrence J. Madar, III, Sam Liu, Chaoyang Zhao +4 more 2015-03-24 $4,923,000
8386688 Modular integrated circuit with common interface Mark Fullerton, Robert Paul Morris, Lawrence J. Madar, III, Sam Liu, Chaoyang Zhao +4 more 2013-02-26 $5,291,000
8145957 Using fractional sectors for mapping defects in disk drives 2012-03-27 $4,150,000
8078773 Optimized transmission of signals between a disk drive controller and a motor controller using a serial port 2011-12-13 $4,395,000
7818629 Multiple winner arbitration 2010-10-19 $7,073,000
7788555 Using fractional sectors for mapping defects in disk drives 2010-08-31 $2,877,000
7730256 Dual work queue disk drive controller 2010-06-01 $4,921,000
7596721 Methods and structure for patching embedded firmware Andrew W. Vogan 2009-09-29
7587538 Disk controller, channel interface and methods for use therewith John P. Mead 2009-09-08 $5,811,000
7370230 Methods and structure for error correction in a processor pipeline 2008-05-06
7065613 Method for reducing access to main memory using a stack cache Andrew W. Vogan 2006-06-20
6772288 Extended cache memory system and method for caching data including changing a state field value in an extent record Timothy R. Feldman 2004-08-03 $7,606,000
6665359 Digital data separator 2003-12-16 $20,140,000
6324633 Division of memory into non-binary sized cache and non-cache areas Timothy R. Feldman 2001-11-27 $23,803,000
6275081 Gated clock flip-flops 2001-08-14 $8,920,000
5748400 Method of compensating for the misregistration of the radial track positions of a floppy diskette in a disk drive Gregory Black Shonle 1998-05-05
4996661 Single chip complex floating point numeric processor Roger G. Cox, Michael W. Yeager 1991-02-26 $5,563,000