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Rick A. Weckwerth — 34 Patents

IBM: 33 patents #3,003 of 70,183Top 5%
Globalfoundries: 1 patents #2,221 of 4,424Top 55%
Oronoco, MN: #9 of 103 inventorsTop 9%
Minnesota: #1,653 of 52,454 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #100,737 of 4,157,543Top 3%
34 Patents All Time
Rick A. Weckwerth has been granted 34 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 2006 and the most recent in March 2024. Rick A. Weckwerth ranks #100,737 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.4%). Patent records list Rick A. Weckwerth in Oronoco, MN, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 34 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11922228 Host request pacing to balance resources and throughput Daniel F. Moertl, Robert Edward Galbraith, Matthew Szekely, Damir A. Jamsek 2024-03-05 $15,162,000
11907123 Flash memory garbage collection Robert Edward Galbraith, Daniel F. Moertl, Matthew Szekely 2024-02-20 $7,691,000
10942659 Persistent logical to virtual table Daniel F. Moertl, Andrew K. Martin, Damir A. Jamsek, Robert Edward Galbraith 2021-03-09 $4,710,000
10467150 Dynamic tier remapping of data stored in a hybrid storage system Joseph R. Edwards, Robert Edward Galbraith, Adrian C. Gerhard, Daniel F. Moertl, Gowrisankar Radhakrishnan 2019-11-05 $4,028,000
10282104 Dynamic optimization of raid read operations Clark A. Anderson, Adrian C. Gerhard, Daniel F. Moertl 2019-05-07 $2,760,000
10078595 Implementing hardware accelerator for storage write cache management for managing cache destage rates and thresholds for storage write cache Brian E. Bakke, Joseph R. Edwards, Robert Edward Galbraith, Adrian C. Gerhard, Daniel F. Moertl +1 more 2018-09-18 $3,379,000
10067880 Dynamic tier remapping of data stored in a hybrid storage system Joseph R. Edwards, Robert Edward Galbraith, Adrian C. Gerhard, Daniel F. Moertl, Gowrisankar Radhakrishnan 2018-09-04 $2,923,000
9940251 Implementing hardware accelerator for storage write cache management for reads from storage write cache Brian E. Bakke, Joseph R. Edwards, Robert Edward Galbraith, Adrian C. Gerhard, Daniel F. Moertl +1 more 2018-04-10 $2,135,000
9940252 Implementing hardware accelerator for storage write cache management for reads with partial read hits from storage write cache Brian E. Bakke, Joseph R. Edwards, Robert Edward Galbraith, Adrian C. Gerhard, Daniel F. Moertl +1 more 2018-04-10 $2,135,000
9940253 Implementing hardware accelerator for storage write cache management for destage operations from storage write cache Brian E. Bakke, Joseph R. Edwards, Robert Edward Galbraith, Adrian C. Gerhard, Daniel F. Moertl +1 more 2018-04-10 $2,135,000
9940254 Implementing hardware accelerator for storage write cache management for simultaneous read and destage operations from storage write cache Brian E. Bakke, Joseph R. Edwards, Robert Edward Galbraith, Adrian C. Gerhard, Daniel F. Moertl +1 more 2018-04-10 $2,135,000
9940255 Implementing hardware accelerator for storage write cache management for identification of data age in storage write cache Brian E. Bakke, Joseph R. Edwards, Robert Edward Galbraith, Adrian C. Gerhard, Daniel F. Moertl +1 more 2018-04-10 $2,135,000
9940256 Implementing hardware accelerator for storage write cache management for managing cache line updates for writes, reads, and destages in storage write cache Brian E. Bakke, Joseph R. Edwards, Robert Edward Galbraith, Adrian C. Gerhard, Daniel F. Moertl +1 more 2018-04-10 $2,135,000
9940257 Implementing hardware accelerator for storage write cache management for managing cache line updates for purges from storage write cache Brian E. Bakke, Joseph R. Edwards, Robert Edward Galbraith, Adrian C. Gerhard, Daniel F. Moertl +1 more 2018-04-10 $2,135,000
9940258 Implementing hardware accelerator for storage write cache management for merging data with existing data on fast writes to storage write cache Brian E. Bakke, Joseph R. Edwards, Robert Edward Galbraith, Adrian C. Gerhard, Daniel F. Moertl +1 more 2018-04-10 $2,135,000
9940250 Implementing hardware accelerator for storage write cache management for writes to storage write cache Brian E. Bakke, Joseph R. Edwards, Robert Edward Galbraith, Adrian C. Gerhard, Daniel F. Moertl +1 more 2018-04-10 $2,135,000
9940249 Implementing hardware accelerator for storage write cache management with cache line manipulation Brian E. Bakke, Joseph R. Edwards, Robert Edward Galbraith, Adrian C. Gerhard, Daniel F. Moertl +1 more 2018-04-10 $2,135,000
9864695 Implementing hardware accelerator for storage write cache management for managing cache destage rates and thresholds for storage write cache Brian E. Bakke, Joseph R. Edwards, Robert Edward Galbraith, Adrian C. Gerhard, Daniel F. Moertl +1 more 2018-01-09 $3,907,000
9658968 Implementing hardware accelerator for storage write cache management Brian E. Bakke, Joseph R. Edwards, Robert Edward Galbraith, Adrian C. Gerhard, Daniel F. Moertl +1 more 2017-05-23 $2,171,000
9239797 Implementing enhanced data caching and takeover of non-owned storage devices in dual storage device controller configuration with data in write cache Robert Edward Galbraith, Dennis Carl Mairet, William J. Maitland, Jr., Stephen M. Tee 2016-01-19 $1,034,000
9122413 Implementing hardware auto device operations initiator Brian E. Bakke, Adrian C. Gerhard, Daniel F. Moertl 2015-09-01 $3,766,000
8886881 Implementing storage adapter performance optimization with parity update footprint mirroring Brian E. Bakke, Brian L. Bowles, Michael Joseph Carnevale, Robert Edward Galbraith, Adrian C. Gerhard +5 more 2014-11-11 $15,773,000
8868828 Implementing storage adapter performance optimization with cache data/directory mirroring Brian E. Bakke, Brian L. Bowles, Michael Joseph Carnevale, Robert Edward Galbraith, Adrian C. Gerhard +5 more 2014-10-21 $3,429,000
8793462 Implementing storage adapter performance optimization with enhanced resource pool allocation Brian E. Bakke, Brian L. Bowles, Michael Joseph Carnevale, Robert Edward Galbraith, Adrian C. Gerhard +5 more 2014-07-29 $5,690,000
8656213 Implementing storage adapter performance optimization with chained hardware operations and error recovery firmware path Brian E. Bakke, Brian L. Bowles, Michael Joseph Carnevale, Robert Edward Galbraith, Adrian C. Gerhard +5 more 2014-02-18 $4,910,000