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Lyn Lequam Ashton — 14 Patents

IBM: 14 patents #8,031 of 70,183Top 15%
Tucson, AZ: #501 of 6,004 inventorsTop 9%
Arizona: #2,535 of 32,909 inventorsTop 8%
Overall (All Time): #332,869 of 4,157,543Top 9%
14 Patents All Time
Lyn Lequam Ashton has been granted 14 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1997 and the most recent in December 2012. Lyn Lequam Ashton ranks #332,869 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 8.0%). Patent records list Lyn Lequam Ashton in Tucson, AZ, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1997 to 2012Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2004.peak 31997: 1 patents19971999: 1 patents19992002: 1 patents20022004: 3 patents20042005: 1 patents20052008: 2 patents20082009: 2 patents20092011: 2 patents20112012: 1 patents2012

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–14 of 14 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8341346 Offloading volume space reclamation operations to virtual tape systems Thomas W. Bish, Stanley Mark Kissinger, Jonathan Wayne Peake 2012-12-25
8041921 Apparatus, system, and method for utilizing tape media segmentation Erika M. Dawson, Lisa J. Gundy, Stanley Mark Kissinger, Michael Ray Noel 2011-10-18 $4,054,000
7864479 Apparatus, system, and method for optimizing fast access data storage on segmented tape media Erika M. Dawson, Lisa J. Gundy, Stanley Mark Kissinger, Michael Ray Noel 2011-01-04 $2,931,000
7613946 Apparatus, system, and method for recovering a multivolume data set John G. Thompson, Henry Verdugo Valenzuela, Glenn Randle Wilcock 2009-11-03 $14,110,000
7558914 Data object processing of storage drive buffers Edward Baker, Stanley Mark Kissinger, William McEwen, Sean P. McMillen, Michael Ray Noel +1 more 2009-07-07 $14,962,000
7443629 Apparatus, system, and method for optimizing fast access data storage on segmented tape media Erika M. Dawson, Lisa J. Gundy, Stanley Mark Kissinger, Michael Ray Noel 2008-10-28 $6,235,000
7406580 Method for utilizing tape media segmentation Erika M. Dawson, Lisa J. Gundy, Stanley Mark Kissinger, Michael Ray Noel 2008-07-29 $9,815,000
6959369 Method, system, and program for data backup Anthony Steve Pearson, Anand Rao Savur, John G. Thompson 2005-10-25 $9,634,000
6732244 Instant virtual copy technique with expedited creation of backup dataset inventory from source dataset inventory Anthony Steve Pearson, Savur Rao, John G. Thompson 2004-05-04 $7,309,000
6725350 Storage management system, apparatus, and method for supporting a multiplicity of logical block identification Kirby Grant Dahman, Erika M. Dawson, Kathryn Eileen Eldred, Gavin S. Johnson, Jon A. Lynds +4 more 2004-04-20 $6,170,000
6678752 Data storage system with automatic storage request analysis and selection of optimal output media type Cuong Minh Le, Jerry W. Pence, James Mitchell Ratliff, Glenn Randle Wilcock 2004-01-13 $10,539,000
6434682 Data management system with shortcut migration via efficient automatic reconnection to previously migrated copy Stanley Mark Kissinger, Jerry W. Pence 2002-08-13 $10,700,000
5875481 Dynamic reconfiguration of data storage devices to balance recycle throughput Anthony Steve Pearson, Jerry W. Pence, Stephen C. West 1999-02-23 $8,993,000
5623693 System for performing action by sorting actions into immediate and deferred queues, processing immediate queue while still sorting, and appending deferred queue to immediate after sorting Anthony Steve Pearson, Jerry W. Pence 1997-04-22 $15,673,000