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Michael Zappe — 53 Patents

FUFusion-Io: 28 patents #4 of 39Top 15%
STSandisk Technologies: 8 patents #365 of 2,224Top 20%
LSLongitude Enterprise Flash S.A.R.L.: 6 patents #2 of 18Top 15%
UTUnification Technologies: 4 patents #4 of 9Top 45%
MOMoxtek: 1 patents #95 of 140Top 70%
BUBrigham Young University: 1 patents #220 of 611Top 40%
Intel: 1 patents #18,218 of 30,777Top 60%
Wheat Ridge, CO: #2 of 146 inventorsTop 2%
Colorado: #358 of 40,980 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #48,907 of 4,157,543Top 2%
53 Patents All Time

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 26–50 of 53 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
8719501 Apparatus, system, and method for caching data on a solid-state storage device David Flynn, John Strasser, Jonathan Thatcher, David Atkisson, Joshua Aune +1 more 2014-05-06
8601211 Storage system with front-end controller David Flynn, John Strasser, Jonathan Thatcher 2013-12-03
8533406 Apparatus, system, and method for identifying data that is no longer in use David Flynn, Jonathan Thatcher 2013-09-10
8533569 Apparatus, system, and method for managing data using a data pipeline David Flynn, Bert Lagerstedt, John Strasser, Jonathan Thatcher 2013-09-10
8495292 Apparatus, system, and method for an in-server storage area network David Flynn, David Atkisson, Bert Lagerstedt, John Strasser, Jonathan Thatcher 2013-07-23
8484522 Apparatus, system, and method for bad block remapping David Flynn, John Strasser, Jonathan Thatcher, David Atkisson, Joshua Aune +1 more 2013-07-09
8443259 Apparatus, system, and method for using multi-level cell solid-state storage as single level cell solid-state storage Jonathan Thatcher, David Flynn, Ethan Barnes, John Strasser, Robert Wood 2013-05-14
8412904 Apparatus, system, and method for managing concurrent storage requests David Flynn, Jonathan Thatcher 2013-04-02
8412979 Apparatus, system, and method for data storage using progressive raid David Flynn, David Atkisson, Jonathan Thatcher 2013-04-02
8402201 Apparatus, system, and method for storage space recovery in solid-state storage David Flynn, Bert Lagerstedt, John Strasser, Jonathan Thatcher, John Walker 2013-03-19
8296337 Apparatus, system, and method for managing data from a requesting device with an empty data token directive David Flynn, Jonathan Thatcher 2012-10-23
8285927 Apparatus, system, and method for solid-state storage as cache for high-capacity, non-volatile storage David Flynn, John Strasser, Jonathan Thatcher 2012-10-09
8266496 Apparatus, system, and method for managing data using a data pipeline David Flynn, Bert Lagerstedt, John Strasser, Jonathan Thatcher 2012-09-11
8261005 Apparatus, system, and method for managing data in a storage device with an empty data token directive David Flynn, Jonathan Thatcher 2012-09-04
8261158 Apparatus, system, and method for using multi-level cell solid-state storage as single level cell solid-state storage Jonathan Thatcher, David Flynn, Ethan Barnes, John Strasser, Robert Wood 2012-09-04
8239714 Apparatus, system, and method for bad block remapping David Flynn, John Strasser, John Thatcher, David Atkisson, Joshua Aune +1 more 2012-08-07
8214591 Apparatus, system, and method for a front-end, distributed raid David Flynn, John Strasser, Jonathan Thatcher 2012-07-03
8205015 Apparatus, system, and method for coordinating storage requests in a multi-processor/multi-thread environment David Flynn, Jonathan Thatcher 2012-06-19
8195912 Apparatus, system, and method for efficient mapping of virtual and physical addresses David Flynn, John Strasser, David Atkisson, Jonathan Thatcher 2012-06-05
8156392 Apparatus, system, and method for bad block remapping David Flynn, John Strasser, Jonathan Thatcher, David Atkisson, Joshua Aune +1 more 2012-04-10
8151082 Apparatus, system, and method for converting a storage request into an append data storage command David Flynn, John Strasser, Jonathan Thatcher 2012-04-03
8074011 Apparatus, system, and method for storage space recovery after reaching a read count limit David Flynn, Bert Lagerstedt, John Strasser, Jonathan Thatcher, John Walker +3 more 2011-12-06
8046500 Apparatus, system, and method for coordinating storage requests in a multi-processor/multi-thread environment David Flynn, Jonathan Thatcher 2011-10-25
8019940 Apparatus, system, and method for a front-end, distributed raid David Flynn, John Strasser, Jonathan Thatcher 2011-09-13
8019938 Apparatus, system, and method for solid-state storage as cache for high-capacity, non-volatile storage David Flynn, John Strasser, Jonathan Thatcher 2011-09-13