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Michael D. O'Brien — 7 Patents

GSGoahead Software: 5 patents #1 of 7Top 15%
DEDepartment Of Energy: 1 patents #41 of 740Top 6%
Overall (All Time): #680,018 of 4,157,543Top 20%
7 Patents All Time
Michael D. O'Brien has been granted 7 US patents while listed as an inventor at Goahead Software. The first was granted in 1990 and the most recent in May 2008. Michael D. O'Brien ranks #680,018 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 16.4%). Patent records list Michael D. O'Brien in Brisbane, NV, AU.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1990 to 2008Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2008.peak 21990: 1 patents19901993: 1 patents19932000: 1 patents20002006: 1 patents20062007: 1 patents20072008: 2 patents2008

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–7 of 7 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
7370223 System and method for managing clusters containing multiple nodes Gregory Andrew Olmstead, Gregory Thiel, Peter Gravestock 2008-05-06
7337373 Determining the source of failure in a peripheral bus Peter Gravestock 2008-02-26
7228453 Techniques for maintaining high availability of networked systems Bryan Klisch, John Vogel, Gregory Thiel 2007-06-05
6986133 System and method for securely upgrading networked devices Peter Gravestock, Alan J. Pickrell 2006-01-10
6055569 Accelerating web access by predicting user action Peter Gravestock 2000-04-25
5271437 Aerosol can waste disposal device Robert L. Klapperick, Chris Bell 1993-12-21
4972368 Intelligent serial I/O subsystem Antonio Basilio Merenda, Kim H. Laurie, Robert B. Waldie 1990-11-20