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William A. Kish — 15 Patents

FOFortinet: 7 patents #82 of 528Top 20%
IBM: 7 patents #14,688 of 70,183Top 25%
HDHeidelberg Druckmaschinen: 1 patents #796 of 1,510Top 55%
Millerton, NY: #2 of 12 inventorsTop 20%
New York: #9,821 of 115,490 inventorsTop 9%
Overall (All Time): #307,048 of 4,157,543Top 8%
15 Patents All Time
William A. Kish has been granted 15 US patents while listed as an inventor at Fortinet. The first was granted in 1996 and the most recent in April 2021. William A. Kish ranks #307,048 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 7.4%). Patent records list William A. Kish in Millerton, NY, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1996 to 2021Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2018.peak 31996: 2 patents19961997: 2 patents19971999: 1 patents19992000: 2 patents20002004: 1 patents20042017: 1 patents20172018: 3 patents20182019: 1 patents20192020: 1 patents20202021: 1 patents2021

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–15 of 15 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10992641 DNS-enabled communication between heterogeneous devices Sergey Katsev 2021-04-27 $283,668,000
10673815 DNS-enabled communication between heterogeneous devices Sergey Katsev 2020-06-02 $205,834,000
10171492 Denial-of-service (DoS) mitigation based on health of protected network device Sergey Katsev 2019-01-01
10075468 Denial-of-service (DoS) mitigation approach based on connection characteristics Sergey Katsev 2018-09-11 $23,007,000
10009419 Socket application program interface (API) for efficient data transactions 2018-06-26 $5,766,000
9894033 DNS-enabled communication between heterogeneous devices Sergey Katsev 2018-02-13 $8,238,000
9680918 Socket application program interface (API) for efficient data transactions 2017-06-13 $8,953,000
6705608 Sheet material conveying apparatus with adjustable top grippers for pockets Mehmet Oktay Kaya, Heiner Luxem 2004-03-16
6032216 Parallel file system with method using tokens for locking modes Frank B. Schmuck, Anthony J. Zlotek, Boaz Shmueli, Benjamin Mandler, Zvi Yehudai 2000-02-29 $26,074,000
6021508 Parallel file system and method for independent metadata loggin Frank B. Schmuck, Radha Kandadai, Anthony J. Zlotek, Robert J. Curran 2000-02-01 $24,099,000
5999976 Parallel file system and method with byte range API locking Frank B. Schmuck, Boaz Shmueli, James C. Wyllie, Anthony J. Zlotek 1999-12-07 $33,125,000
5659682 Scheme to determine completion of directory operations for server recovery Murthy V. Devarakonda 1997-08-19 $11,736,000
5603019 Takeover technique for networked virtual filesystems 1997-02-11 $15,155,000
5566297 Non-disruptive recovery from file server failure in a highly available file system for clustered computing environments Murthy V. Devarakonda, Ajay Mohindra 1996-10-15 $13,145,000
5490270 Simultaneous updates to the modification time attribute of a shared file in a cluster having a server and client nodes Murthy V. Devarakonda, Ajay Mohindra, Anthony J. Zlotek 1996-02-06 $12,342,000