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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025
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Gavin S. Johnson — 29 Patents

IBM: 27 patents #3,846 of 70,183Top 6%
Globalfoundries: 2 patents #1,397 of 4,424Top 35%
San Jose, CA: #2,125 of 32,062 inventorsTop 7%
California: #18,137 of 386,348 inventorsTop 5%
Overall (All Time): #127,851 of 4,157,543Top 4%
29 Patents All Time
Gavin S. Johnson has been granted 29 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1998 and the most recent in May 2019. Gavin S. Johnson ranks #127,851 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.1%). Patent records list Gavin S. Johnson in San Jose, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1998 to 2019Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2014.peak 51998: 2 patents19981999: 1 patents2002: 3 patents20022004: 2 patents2006: 1 patents20062008: 1 patents2009: 1 patents20092010: 1 patents2012: 1 patents20122014: 5 patents2015: 4 patents20152016: 3 patents2017: 1 patents20172018: 2 patents2019: 1 patents2019

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 29 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10303380 Extent-level reserve and release for a direct access storage device (DASD) volumes Susan K. Candelaria, Clint A. Hardy, Matthew J. Kalos, Michael J. Koester, John R. Paveza +1 more 2019-05-28 $2,255,000
10021148 Selective copying of track data through peer-to-peer remote copy Michael J. Koester, Kevin L. Miner 2018-07-10 $4,870,000
9904488 Monitoring of residual encrypted data to improve erase performance on a magnetic medium Erika M. Dawson, Scott M. Fry, Paul M. Greco, Joel K. Lyman, Jon A. Lynds +1 more 2018-02-27 $3,821,000
9733839 Tape volume access block having data set information stored therein Jon A. Lynds 2017-08-15 $1,588,000
9406335 Monitoring of residual encrypted data to improve erase performance on a magnetic medium Erika M. Dawson, Scott M. Fry, Paul M. Greco, Joel K. Lyman, Jon A. Lynds +1 more 2016-08-02 $5,615,000
9361026 Selective copying of track data based on track data characteristics through map-mediated peer-to-peer remote copy Michael J. Koester, Kevin L. Miner 2016-06-07 $4,256,000
9229829 Synchronous mode replication to multiple clusters Ralph Thomas Beeston, Erika M. Dawson, Katsuyoshi Katori, Joseph M. Swingler 2016-01-05 $887,000
9201809 Accidental shared volume erasure prevention Michael J. Koester, John R. Paveza 2015-12-01 $753,000
9158462 Tape volume access block having data set information stored therein Jon A. Lynds 2015-10-13 $3,494,000
9032172 Systems, methods and computer program products for selective copying of track data through peer-to-peer remote copy Michael J. Koester, Kevin L. Miner 2015-05-12 $6,873,000
8995071 Monitoring of residual encrypted data to improve erase performance on a magnetic medium Erika M. Dawson, Scott M. Fry, Paul M. Greco, Joel K. Lyman, Jon A. Lynds +1 more 2015-03-31 $4,156,000
8799612 Monitoring of extent of writing of unobscured data to improve erase performance on a magnetic medium Erika M. Dawson, Scott M. Fry, Paul M. Greco, Duke A. Lee, Joel K. Lyman +2 more 2014-08-05 $3,332,000
8782360 Preserving an existing volume map in re-initializing a data storage volume James B. Cammarata, Michael J. Koester 2014-07-15 $5,287,000
8760781 System utility for controling data synchronization in a tape data storage system Jon A. Lynds 2014-06-24 $6,231,000
8682867 Deleted data recovery in data storage systems Leslie A. Barton, Michael J. Koester, Carrie J. Van Noorden 2014-03-25 $4,381,000
8656066 Monitoring input/output operations to specific storage locations Michael J. Koester, John R. Paveza, Carrie J. Van Noorden 2014-02-18 $4,910,000
8321379 System method and apparatus for optimal performance scaling of storage media Jean Chang, Kirby Grant Dahman, Erika M. Dawson, Stanley Mark Kissinger, Jon A. Lynds +2 more 2012-11-27 $10,542,000
7733874 Communicating packets between devices involving the use of different communication protocols Wayne Charles Carlson, Erika M. Dawson, Trang Le, Matthew H. Sabins, Peter G. Sutton +1 more 2010-06-08 $3,517,000
7548998 Modifying host input/output (I/O) activity to allow a storage drive to which I/O activity is directed to access requested information Wayne Charles Carlson, Erika M. Dawson, Joel K. Lyman, Harry M. Yudenfriend 2009-06-16 $12,733,000
7464219 Apparatus, system, and storage medium for data protection by a storage device Christopher J. Hinrichs, Harold Glen Slone, Luis Ricardo Urbanejo 2008-12-09 $6,024,000
7117333 Apparatus, system, and method to estimate memory for recovering data Ralph Thomas Beeston, Kirby Grant Dahman, Trang Le 2006-10-03 $4,350,000
6725350 Storage management system, apparatus, and method for supporting a multiplicity of logical block identification Lyn Lequam Ashton, Kirby Grant Dahman, Erika M. Dawson, Kathryn Eileen Eldred, Jon A. Lynds +4 more 2004-04-20 $6,170,000
6711580 Data management system, apparatus, and method to use buffered file marks Kirby Grant Dahman, Kathryn Eileen Eldred, Jon A. Lynds, Wayne Erwin Rhoten 2004-03-23 $10,149,000
6343335 System for repositioning an I/O device to a predetermined position to retry a program without knowledge of which part of the program caused the retry Kirby Grant Dahman, Larry R. Perry, Harry M. Yudenfriend 2002-01-29 $17,392,000
6339799 Method of repositioning an I/O device to a predetermined position to retry a program without knowledge of which part of the program caused the retry Kirby Grant Dahman, Larry R. Perry, Harry M. Yudenfriend 2002-01-15 $19,229,000