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Norman Apperley — 10 Patents

IBM: 10 patents #10,925 of 70,183Top 20%
Rue Basse-Henne, GB: #9 of 76 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #481,000 of 4,157,543Top 15%
10 Patents All Time
Norman Apperley has been granted 10 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1986 and the most recent in February 2006. Norman Apperley ranks #481,000 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 11.6%). Patent records list Norman Apperley in Rue Basse-Henne, GB.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1986 to 2006Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 1998.peak 41986: 1 patents19861997: 1 patents19971998: 4 patents19982000: 1 patents20002004: 1 patents20042005: 1 patents20052006: 1 patents2006

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–10 of 10 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
6996642 Adapter, converted data storage device and method of operation of a converted data storage device Stephen P. Legg, Vinay Shah 2006-02-07 $5,045,000
6859896 Adapter and method for handling errors in a data storage device converted to be accessible to multiple hosts Stephen P. Legg, Richard Rolls 2005-02-22 $11,368,000
6789165 Data storage array method and system Matthew J. Fairhurst, Carlos F. Fuente, William J. Scales 2004-09-07 $9,920,000
6118612 Disk drive synchronization Ian David Judd 2000-09-12 $33,772,000
5832199 Efficient system for predicting and processing storage subsystem failure James T. Brady, Steven Gerdt, Alden B. Johnson 1998-11-03 $14,328,000
5832204 Efficient system for predicting and processing storage subsystem failure James T. Brady, Steven Gerdt, Alden B. Johnson 1998-11-03 $14,328,000
5815650 Efficient system for predicting and processing storage subsystem failure James T. Brady, Steven Gerdt, Alden B. Johnson 1998-09-29 $18,461,000
5717850 Efficient system for predicting and processing storage subsystem failure James T. Brady, Steven Gerdt, Alden B. Johnson 1998-02-10 $18,636,000
5664145 Apparatus and method for transferring data in a data storage subsystems wherein a multi-sector data transfer order is executed while a subsequent order is issued Patrick Allen Buckland 1997-09-02 $11,536,000
4566005 Data management for plasma display Roger J. Edwards, Raymond L. J. Foster, David C. Haigh, Michael E. Haslam, Peter Verey 1986-01-21 $23,459,000