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Thomas W. Grieff — 20 Patents

CCCompaq Computer: 13 patents #52 of 1,604Top 4%
HP: 7 patents #2,783 of 16,619Top 20%
Houston, TX: #1,002 of 21,073 inventorsTop 5%
Texas: #6,926 of 125,132 inventorsTop 6%
Overall (All Time): #214,803 of 4,157,543Top 6%
20 Patents All Time
Thomas W. Grieff has been granted 20 US patents while listed as an inventor at Compaq Computer. The first was granted in 1992 and the most recent in January 2010. Thomas W. Grieff ranks #214,803 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.2%). Patent records list Thomas W. Grieff in Houston, TX, US.

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Showing 1–20 of 20 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7644168 SAS expander Robert C. Elliott 2010-01-05 $12,650,000
7584377 System, machine, and method for maintenance of mirrored datasets through surrogate writes during storage-area networks transients Greg J. Pellegrino 2009-09-01 $54,868,000
7035952 System having storage subsystems and a link coupling the storage subsystems Robert C. Elliott, Joseph E. Foster 2006-04-25 $11,316,000
6961813 System and method for providing multi-initiator capability to an ATA drive James R. Reif, Albert Chang 2005-11-01 $12,111,000
6948036 System and method for providing multi-initiator capability to an ATA drive James R. Reif, Albert Chang 2005-09-20 $12,406,000
6732298 Nonmaskable interrupt workaround for a single exception interrupt handler processor Purna C. Murthy, Michael L. Sabotta 2004-05-04 $12,475,000
6725393 System, machine, and method for maintenance of mirrored datasets through surrogate writes during storage-area network transients Greg J. Pellegrino 2004-04-20 $9,980,000
6205500 System and method for electrically isolating a device from higher voltage devices Michael L. Sabotta 2001-03-20 $48,693,000
6154789 Peripheral controller comprising first messaging unit for communication with first OS driver and second messaging unit for communication with second OS driver for mass-storage peripheral Bryan A. Jones, Michael L. Sabotta 2000-11-28 $99,736,000
6128686 Hiding peripheral memory transactions on a local bus within a peripheral controller from a host system bus Michael L. Sabotta, Bryan A. Jones 2000-10-03 $45,402,000
6061752 Technique for hot plugging a peripheral controller card containing PCI and SCSI buses on a single connector into a host system board Bryan A. Jones, Michael L. Sabotta 2000-05-09 $46,627,000
5848251 Secondary channel for command information for fibre channel system interface bus Lawrence W Lomelino, Michael L. Sabotta 1998-12-08 $106,449,000
5717954 Locked exchange FIFO William C. Galloway, Jeff M. Carlson 1998-02-10 $140,969,000
5469548 Disk array controller having internal protocol for sending address/transfer count information during first/second load cycles and transferring data after receiving an acknowldgement Ryan A. Callison, Gregory T. Chandler 1995-11-21 $23,677,000
5448709 Disk array controller having command descriptor blocks utilized by bus master and bus slave for respectively performing data transfer operations Gregory T. Chandler, Ryan A. Callison 1995-09-05 $42,391,000
5253355 Apparatus and method for developing wait states during addressing operation by using unused address bits 1993-10-12 $25,580,000
5241630 Device controller with a separate command path between a host and the device and a separate data path including a first in, first out memory between the host and the device Thomas W. Lattin, Jr., Ryan A. Callison 1993-08-31 $23,432,000
5206943 Disk array controller with parity capabilities Ryan A. Callison, Kenneth L. Bush 1993-04-27 $39,366,000
5150465 Mode-selectable integrated disk drive for computer Kenneth L. Bush, Ralph S. Perry, George J. Scholhamer, III 1992-09-22 $16,971,000
5115225 Disk drive unit overheating warning system Hung D. Dao, Thomas W. Lattin, Jr., Darren Thomas, Stephen M. Schultz, Richard A. Ewert +1 more 1992-05-19 $25,140,000