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John S. Best — 32 Patents

IBM: 29 patents #3,540 of 70,183Top 6%
Honeywell: 1 patents #9,399 of 16,504Top 60%
EAE.I. Du Pont De Nemours And: 1 patents #8,961 of 12,129Top 75%
San Jose, CA: #1,882 of 32,062 inventorsTop 6%
California: #15,919 of 386,348 inventorsTop 5%
Overall (All Time): #110,428 of 4,157,543Top 3%
32 Patents All Time
John S. Best has been granted 32 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1982 and the most recent in May 2024. John S. Best ranks #110,428 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.7%). Patent records list John S. Best in San Jose, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1982 to 2024Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2017.peak 31982: 1 patents19821983: 1 patents1985: 2 patents19851991: 2 patents1993: 1 patents19931995: 2 patents1996: 1 patents19961997: 1 patents1999: 1 patents19992012: 1 patents2015: 1 patents20152016: 2 patents2017: 3 patents20172018: 2 patents2019: 2 patents20192020: 2 patents2021: 1 patents20212022: 2 patents2023: 2 patents20232024: 2 patents2024

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 32 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11991293 Authorized secure data movement Guerney D. H. Hunt, Wayne C. Hineman, Steven R. Hetzler 2024-05-21 $15,464,000
11930109 Encrypted storage with secure access Steven R. Hetzler, Wayne C. Hineman 2024-03-12 $11,845,000
11803648 Key in lockbox encrypted data deduplication Steven R. Hetzler, Wayne C. Hineman 2023-10-31 $8,788,000
11544387 Hash protection within an object storage library Rajamohan Gandhasri, Steven R. Hetzler, Robert M. Rees, Wayne C. Hineman, Zhenxing Han 2023-01-03 $14,209,000
11295028 Multi-key encrypted data deduplication Steven R. Hetzler, Wayne C. Hineman 2022-04-05 $5,706,000
11238896 Passive retraction of a hub clamp in an optical disc drive Daniel F. Smith, David J. Altknecht 2022-02-01 $4,586,000
11175986 Storage systems implementing offset erasure code stripes Steven R. Hetzler 2021-11-16 $1,912,000
10658001 Method and system for selecting and moving a single disc in an optical disc library David J. Altknecht, Donald S. Bethune, William M. Dyer 2020-05-19 $2,035,000
10546608 Method and system for selecting and moving a single disc in an optical disc library David J. Altknecht, Donald S. Bethune, William M. Dyer 2020-01-28 $1,679,000
10430123 Hierarchical data recovery processing for extended product codes Mario Blaum, Steven R. Hetzler 2019-10-01 $3,685,000
10186295 Disc gripper for storage disc David J. Altknecht, Donald S. Bethune, William M. Dyer, A. David Erpelding, Steven R. Hetzler +2 more 2019-01-22 $16,920,000
10127941 Optical disk drive guide David J. Altknecht, William M. Dyer, A. David Erpelding, Steven R. Hetzler 2018-11-13 $2,931,000
10031701 Hierarchical processing for extended product codes Mario Blaum, Steven R. Hetzler 2018-07-24 $2,645,000
9741389 High performance robotic optical storage system David J. Altknecht, Donald S. Bethune, William M. Dyer, A. David Erpelding, Steven R. Hetzler +2 more 2017-08-22 $2,056,000
9741390 Optical disc drive David J. Altknecht, Donald S. Bethune, William M. Dyer, A. David Erpelding, Steven R. Hetzler +2 more 2017-08-22 $2,056,000
9672863 Disc gripper for storage discs David J. Altknecht, Donald S. Bethune, William M. Dyer, A. David Erpelding, Steven R. Hetzler +2 more 2017-06-06 $2,871,000
9454426 Codes of length tn invariant under rotations of order n Mario Blaum, Steven R. Hetzler 2016-09-27 $4,099,000
9373353 Negative select access mechanism Steven R. Hetzler, Drew B. Lawson, Daniel F. Smith 2016-06-21 $3,815,000
9117462 Tape drive with overlapped operations David J. Altknecht, Steven R. Hetzler, Gary M. McClelland 2015-08-25 $7,184,000
8157514 Components for gas turbine engines Victor Reyes, Christopher Urwiller, Robert Sandoval 2012-04-17 $14,638,000
5909333 Servo-writing system for use in a data recording disk drive Wen-Wei Chiang, Steven R. Hetzler, Donald E. Horne, Chih-Kung Lee, Vincent Marrello 1999-06-01 $35,326,000
5615190 Fixed- block architecture embedded servo disk drive without data identification (ID) regions Steven R. Hetzler 1997-03-25 $8,853,000
5500848 Sector servo data recording disk having data regions without identification (ID) fields Steven R. Hetzler 1996-03-19 $37,931,000
5459853 Efficient variable-block data storage system employing a staggered fixed-block-architecture array Steven R. Hetzler, Roger F. Hoyt, Jaishankar Moothedath Menon, Michael F. Mitoma 1995-10-17 $11,855,000
5438559 Method for locating physical sectors in a fixed block architecture embedded servo disk file #14 Steven R. Hetzler 1995-08-01 $27,647,000