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James M. Karp — 72 Patents

IBM: 70 patents #1,050 of 70,183Top 2%
Globalfoundries: 1 patents #2,221 of 4,424Top 55%
QUQuantum: 1 patents #325 of 703Top 50%
Tucson, AZ: #59 of 6,004 inventorsTop 1%
Arizona: #235 of 32,909 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #27,714 of 4,157,543Top 1%
72 Patents All Time
James M. Karp has been granted 72 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1992 and the most recent in December 2025. James M. Karp ranks #27,714 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.67%). Patent records list James M. Karp in Tucson, AZ, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1992 to 2023Bar chart with a peak of 8 patents in 2004.peak 81992: 2 patents19921993: 1 patents1997: 1 patents2003: 5 patents20032004: 8 patents2005: 5 patents2006: 2 patents20062007: 4 patents2008: 3 patents2009: 3 patents20092010: 8 patents2011: 6 patents2012: 1 patents20122013: 1 patents2016: 4 patents2017: 2 patents20172018: 4 patents2019: 4 patents2020: 3 patents20202021: 1 patents2022: 2 patents2023: 1 patents2023

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 72 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12504795 Data storage library with service mode for protecting data storage drives Ernest S. Gale, Brian G. Goodman, Icko E. T. Iben, Leonard George Jesionowski, Michael P. McIntosh +2 more 2025-12-23
11726533 Data storage library with service mode for protecting data storage drives Ernest S. Gale, Brian G. Goodman, Icko E. T. Iben, Leonard George Jesionowski, Michael P. McIntosh +2 more 2023-08-15 $8,098,000
11500430 Data storage library with service mode for protecting data storage drives Ernest S. Gale, Brian G. Goodman, Icko E. T. Iben, Leonard George Jesionowski, Michael P. McIntosh +2 more 2022-11-15 $5,426,000
11263841 Data storage library with service mode Ernest S. Gale, Icko E. T. Iben, Leonard George Jesionowski, Michael P. McIntosh, Shawn M. Nave +1 more 2022-03-01 $6,542,000
11158355 Data storage library with positive pressure system Ernest S. Gale, Icko E. T. Iben, Leonard George Jesionowski, Michael P. McIntosh, Shawn M. Nave +1 more 2021-10-26 $2,874,000
10679666 Data storage library with interior access regulation Ernest S. Gale, Icko E. T. Iben, Leonard George Jesionowski, Michael P. McIntosh, Shawn M. Nave +1 more 2020-06-09 $2,264,000
10635314 Write procedure using estimated best setting in first run Takashi Katagiri, Yuhko Mori, Yutaka Oishi 2020-04-28 $4,123,000
10566023 Data storage library with service mode for protecting data storage drives Ernest S. Gale, Brian G. Goodman, Icko E. T. Iben, Leonard George Jesionowski, Michael P. McIntosh +2 more 2020-02-18 $2,353,000
10490004 Data storage library with service mode Ernest S. Gale, Icko E. T. Iben, Leonard George Jesionowski, Michael P. McIntosh, Shawn M. Nave +1 more 2019-11-26 $3,625,000
10418063 Data storage library with interior access regulation Ernest S. Gale, Icko E. T. Iben, Leonard George Jesionowski, Michael P. McIntosh, Shawn M. Nave +1 more 2019-09-17 $3,647,000
10418071 Data storage library with positive pressure system Ernest S. Gale, Icko E. T. Iben, Leonard George Jesionowski, Michael P. McIntosh, Shawn M. Nave +1 more 2019-09-17 $3,647,000
10417851 Data storage library with service mode Ernest S. Gale, Icko E. T. Iben, Leonard George Jesionowski, Michael P. McIntosh, Shawn M. Nave +1 more 2019-09-17 $3,647,000
10026445 Data storage library with interior access regulation Ernest S. Gale, Icko E. T. Iben, Leonard George Jesionowski, Michael P. McIntosh, Shawn M. Nave +1 more 2018-07-17 $3,360,000
9959045 Write procedure using estimated best setting in first run Takashi Katagiri, Yuhko Mori, Yutaka Oishi 2018-05-01 $4,480,000
9940976 Data storage library with component locker for environmental acclimation Ernest S. Gale, Icko E. T. Iben, Leonard George Jesionowski, Michael P. McIntosh, Shawn M. Nave +1 more 2018-04-10 $2,135,000
9927982 Write procedure using estimated best setting in first run Takashi Katagiri, Yuhko Mori, Yutaka Oishi 2018-03-27 $2,459,000
9766813 Write procedure using estimated best setting in first run Takashi Katagiri, Yuhko Mori, Yutaka Oishi 2017-09-19 $2,669,000
9734076 Dynamically changing a buffer flush threshold of a tape drive based on historical transaction size Scott M. Fry, Takashi Katagiri 2017-08-15 $1,588,000
9501221 Dynamically changing a buffer flush threshold of a tape drive based on historical transaction size Scott M. Fry, Takashi Katagiri 2016-11-22 $3,414,000
9400604 Write procedure using estimated best setting in first run Takashi Katagiri, Yuhko Mori, Yutaka Oishi 2016-07-26 $5,666,000
9383938 Method, system, and apparatus for re-conveying input/output operations utilizing a sequential-access data storage device secondary communication port Paul M. Greco, Glen Alan Jaquette 2016-07-05 $5,294,000
9244628 Reducing elapsed time to access data from a storage medium during a recall operation Kevin D. Butt, Paul M. Greco, Takashi Katagiri 2016-01-26 $652,000
8559124 Cartridge refresh and verify Scott M. Fry, Reed A. Hancock, Pamela R. Nylander-Hill, Eiji Ogura 2013-10-15 $3,582,000
8223450 Cartridge refresh and verify Scott M. Fry, Reed A. Hancock, Pamela R. Nylander-Hill, Eiji Ogura 2012-07-17 $11,706,000
8000052 Cartridge refresh and verify Scott M. Fry, Reed A. Hancock, Pamela R. Nylander-Hill, Eiji Ogura 2011-08-16 $4,692,000