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Ernest S. Gale — 79 Patents

IBM: 77 patents #900 of 70,183Top 2%
Globalfoundries: 1 patents #2,221 of 4,424Top 55%
Tucson, AZ: #49 of 6,004 inventorsTop 1%
Arizona: #198 of 32,909 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #23,150 of 4,157,543Top 1%
79 Patents All Time
Ernest S. Gale has been granted 79 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1994 and the most recent in December 2025. Ernest S. Gale ranks #23,150 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.56%). Patent records list Ernest S. Gale in Tucson, AZ, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1994 to 2024Bar chart with a peak of 10 patents in 2019.peak 101994: 1 patents19942003: 3 patents2006: 1 patents20062007: 3 patents2008: 5 patents20082010: 2 patents2011: 3 patents20112012: 1 patents2013: 3 patents20132014: 8 patents2015: 4 patents20152016: 5 patents2017: 3 patents20172018: 8 patents2019: 10 patents20192020: 8 patents2021: 3 patents20212022: 3 patents2023: 3 patents20232024: 1 patents2024

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 79 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12504795 Data storage library with service mode for protecting data storage drives Brian G. Goodman, Icko E. T. Iben, Leonard George Jesionowski, James M. Karp, Michael P. McIntosh +2 more 2025-12-23
12124740 Selective hard and soft rewrites Roy D. Cideciyan, Simeon Furrer, Masayuki Iwanaga, Keisuke Tanaka 2024-10-22 $22,450,000
11741992 Management of head and media dimensional stability Kevin B. Judd, Randy C. Inch, Eiji Ogura, Pamela R. Nylander-Hill, Dale A. Christiansen +3 more 2023-08-29 $6,011,000
11726533 Data storage library with service mode for protecting data storage drives Brian G. Goodman, Icko E. T. Iben, Leonard George Jesionowski, James M. Karp, Michael P. McIntosh +2 more 2023-08-15 $8,098,000
11561703 Adaptive tape calibration criteria by number of dead tracks Tsuyoshi Miyamura, Keisuke Tanaka 2023-01-24 $6,971,000
11500430 Data storage library with service mode for protecting data storage drives Brian G. Goodman, Icko E. T. Iben, Leonard George Jesionowski, James M. Karp, Michael P. McIntosh +2 more 2022-11-15 $5,426,000
11404078 Measuring amplitudes of written tracks in a tape drive to determine errors in read and write elements in the tape drive David L. Swanson, Josephine Faith Bayang (Kubista), Illarion Borisevich 2022-08-02 $9,617,000
11263841 Data storage library with service mode Icko E. T. Iben, Leonard George Jesionowski, James M. Karp, Michael P. McIntosh, Shawn M. Nave +1 more 2022-03-01 $6,542,000
11189316 Adaptive tape calibration criteria by number of stop writes Tsuyoshi Miyamura, Keisuke Tanaka 2021-11-30 $2,996,000
11158355 Data storage library with positive pressure system Icko E. T. Iben, Leonard George Jesionowski, James M. Karp, Michael P. McIntosh, Shawn M. Nave +1 more 2021-10-26 $2,874,000
10964350 Setting bias currents and limiting corrosion in TMR sensors Icko E. T. Iben, Lee C. Randall, Wlodzimierz S. Czarnecki, Jason Liang, David L. Swanson 2021-03-30 $6,181,000
10832722 Management of head and media dimensional stability Kevin B. Judd, Randy C. Inch, Eiji Ogura, Pamela R. Nylander-Hill, Dale A. Christiansen +3 more 2020-11-10 $848,000
10824346 Logical format utilizing lateral encoding of data for storage on magnetic tape Roy D. Cideciyan, Simeon Furrer, Mark A. Lantz 2020-11-03 $4,313,000
10734023 Aligned shingled writing for magnetic recording media and media having shingle edge positioned tracks Robert G. Biskeborn, W. Stanley Czarnecki, Jason Liang 2020-08-04 $3,150,000
10699742 Behavioral model for dynamic tension compensation Kevin B. Judd, Randy C. Inch, Eiji Ogura, Kazuhiro Tsuruta, Pamela R. Nylander-Hill +1 more 2020-06-30 $3,003,000
10679666 Data storage library with interior access regulation Icko E. T. Iben, Leonard George Jesionowski, James M. Karp, Michael P. McIntosh, Shawn M. Nave +1 more 2020-06-09 $2,264,000
10566023 Data storage library with service mode for protecting data storage drives Brian G. Goodman, Icko E. T. Iben, Leonard George Jesionowski, James M. Karp, Michael P. McIntosh +2 more 2020-02-18 $2,353,000
10566022 Management of head and media dimensional stability Kevin B. Judd, Randy C. Inch, Eiji Ogura, Pamela R. Nylander-Hill, Dale A. Christiansen +3 more 2020-02-18 $2,353,000
10529370 Hub compliance layer for reducing media stress Nhan X. Bui, Kevin B. Judd, Richard A. West, Richard Bradshaw 2020-01-07 $1,754,000
10490004 Data storage library with service mode Icko E. T. Iben, Leonard George Jesionowski, James M. Karp, Michael P. McIntosh, Shawn M. Nave +1 more 2019-11-26 $3,625,000
10460757 Management of head and media dimensional stability Kevin B. Judd, Randy C. Inch, Eiji Ogura, Pamela R. Nylander-Hill, Dale A. Christiansen +3 more 2019-10-29 $4,364,000
10417851 Data storage library with service mode Icko E. T. Iben, Leonard George Jesionowski, James M. Karp, Michael P. McIntosh, Shawn M. Nave +1 more 2019-09-17 $3,647,000
10418063 Data storage library with interior access regulation Icko E. T. Iben, Leonard George Jesionowski, James M. Karp, Michael P. McIntosh, Shawn M. Nave +1 more 2019-09-17 $3,647,000
10418071 Data storage library with positive pressure system Icko E. T. Iben, Leonard George Jesionowski, James M. Karp, Michael P. McIntosh, Shawn M. Nave +1 more 2019-09-17 $3,647,000
10388311 Aligned shingled writing for magnetic recording media and media having shingle edge positioned tracks Robert G. Biskeborn, W. Stanley Czarnecki, Jason Liang 2019-08-20 $1,949,000