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Mark Anthony Sovik — 10 Patents

IBM: 10 patents #10,925 of 70,183Top 20%
Tucson, AZ: #705 of 6,004 inventorsTop 15%
Arizona: #3,693 of 32,909 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #481,000 of 4,157,543Top 15%
10 Patents All Time
Mark Anthony Sovik has been granted 10 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1996 and the most recent in March 2011. Mark Anthony Sovik ranks #481,000 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 11.6%). Patent records list Mark Anthony Sovik in Tucson, AZ, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1996 to 2011Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2002.peak 41996: 1 patents19961999: 1 patents19992001: 3 patents20012002: 4 patents20022011: 1 patents2011

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–10 of 10 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7898442 On-line data compression analysis and regulation 2011-03-01 $4,705,000
6446209 Storage controller conditioning host access to stored data according to security key stored in host-inaccessible metadata Robert Frederic Kern 2002-09-03 $9,688,000
6397351 Method and apparatus for rapid data restoration including on-demand output of sorted logged changes Donald Lee Miller 2002-05-28 $13,038,000
6393537 Host storage management control of outboard data movement Robert Frederic Kern, Ronald Maynard Kern, William Frank Micka 2002-05-21 $12,232,000
6336187 Storage system with data-dependent security Robert Frederic Kern 2002-01-01
6247103 Host storage management control of outboard data movement using push-pull operations Robert Frederic Kern, Ronald Maynard Kern, William Frank Micka 2001-06-12 $30,235,000
6226759 Method and apparatus for immediate data backup by duplicating pointers and freezing pointer/data counterparts Donald Lee Miller 2001-05-01 $28,625,000
6202124 Data storage system with outboard physical data transfer operation utilizing data path distinct from host Robert Frederic Kern, Ronald Maynard Kern, William Frank Micka 2001-03-13 $29,262,000
5930824 System and method for demand-base data recovery Matthew J. Anglin, Anthony Steve Pearson, Donald Paul Warren, Jr. 1999-07-27 $22,178,000
5561421 Access method data compression with system-built generic dictionaries Brian Smith, Pong-Sheng Wang, Nancy Y. Young, Ahmad Zandi 1996-10-01 $9,792,000