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Dan Ritchie — 5 Patents

Hitachi: 5 patents #7,560 of 28,497Top 30%
Issaquah, WA: #524 of 1,767 inventorsTop 30%
Washington: #19,692 of 76,902 inventorsTop 30%
Overall (All Time): #907,971 of 4,157,543Top 25%
5 Patents All Time
Dan Ritchie has been granted 5 US patents while listed as an inventor at Hitachi. The first was granted in 2014 and the most recent in March 2019. Dan Ritchie ranks #907,971 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 21.8%). Patent records list Dan Ritchie in Issaquah, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2014 to 2019Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2014.peak 22014: 2 patents20142016: 1 patents20162018: 1 patents20182019: 1 patents2019

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–5 of 5 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
10223144 Method and apparatus of redundant path validation before provisioning Yoshiki Kano, Randy Chong, Abid Masood 2019-03-05
10127065 Method and apparatus of redundant path validation before provisioning Yoshiki Kano, Randy Chong, Abid Masood 2018-11-13
9354915 Method and apparatus of redundant path validation before provisioning Yoshiki Kano, Randy Chong, Abid Masood 2016-05-31
8706859 Method and apparatus of data center file system Robert Eugene DOWN, JR., William ZIETZKE, Yoshiki Kano 2014-04-22
8631111 Method and apparatus of selection interface by queue and workload for storage operation Yoshiki Kano, William ZIETZKE, Yasuto Nishii, Fumimasa NAKANE 2014-01-14