Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025
SW

Sam Clark Werner — 28 Patents

IBM: 27 patents #3,846 of 70,183Top 6%
Tucson, AZ: #229 of 6,004 inventorsTop 4%
Arizona: #1,078 of 32,909 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #134,628 of 4,157,543Top 4%
28 Patents All Time
Sam Clark Werner has been granted 28 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 2005 and the most recent in January 2012. Sam Clark Werner ranks #134,628 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.2%). Patent records list Sam Clark Werner in Tucson, AZ, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2005 to 2012Bar chart with a peak of 11 patents in 2006.peak 112005: 2 patents20052006: 11 patents20062007: 6 patents20072008: 3 patents20082009: 1 patents20092010: 2 patents20102011: 2 patents20112012: 1 patents2012

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 28 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8095755 System, method and computer program product for generating a consistent point in time copy of data Gal Ashour, Kenneth Wayne Boyd, Michael Factor, Shachar Fienblit, Olympia Gluck +5 more 2012-01-10 $7,380,000
7921273 Method, system, and article of manufacture for remote copying of data Warren K. Stanley, William Frank Micka, Gail A. Spear, Olympia Gluck, Michael Factor +1 more 2011-04-05 $6,033,000
7904684 System and article of manufacture for consistent copying of storage volumes William Frank Micka, Sivan Tal, Ifat Nuriel, Sheli Rahav, Gail A. Spear +1 more 2011-03-08 $4,587,000
7734883 Method, system and program for forming a consistency group Gail A. Spear, Robert Francis Bartfai, Edward H. Lin, William Frank Micka, Olympia Gluck +3 more 2010-06-08 $3,517,000
7650476 System, method and computer program product for generating a consistent point in time copy of data Gal Ashour, Kenneth Wayne Boyd, Michael Factor, Shachar Fienblit, Olympia Gluck +5 more 2010-01-19 $15,189,000
7475208 Method for consistent copying of storage volumes William Frank Micka, Sivan Tai, Ifat Nuriel, Sheli Rahav, Gail A. Spear +1 more 2009-01-06 $2,860,000
7454655 Autonomic recovery of PPRC errors detected by PPRC peer Paul Richards, Warren K. Stanley 2008-11-18 $4,805,000
7409510 Instant virtual copy to a primary mirroring portion of data Gail A. Spear, Warren K. Stanley, Robert Francis Bartfai, William Frank Micka 2008-08-05 $7,485,000
7363629 Method, system, and program for remote resource management James Springer, Thomas Charles Jarvis, Gail A. Spear, Richard K. Martinez, Matthew Sanchez +1 more 2008-04-22 $8,943,000
7266665 Method, system, and article of manufacture for remote copying of data Warren K. Stanley, William Frank Micka, Gail A. Spear, Olympia Gluck, Michael Factor +1 more 2007-09-04 $5,939,000
7240080 Method and apparatus for determining using least recently used protocol if one or more computer files should be written to one or more information storage media and synchronously providing one or more computer files between first and storage devices William Frank Micka 2007-07-03 $6,885,000
7225307 Apparatus, system, and method for synchronizing an asynchronous mirror volume using a synchronous mirror volume William Frank Micka, Gail A. Spear 2007-05-29 $6,985,000
7188222 Method, system, and program for mirroring data among storage sites William Frank Micka, Gail A. Spear, Robert Francis Bartfai, Thomas Charles Jarvis, Warren K. Stanley 2007-03-06 $6,019,000
7185157 Method, system, and article of manufacture for generating a copy of a first and a second set of volumes in a third set of volumes William Frank Micka, Gail A. Spear, Warren K. Stanley 2007-02-27 $7,582,000
7171583 For PPRC backup systems 2007-01-30 $4,520,000
7133989 Point in time copy between data storage systems Helena C. Burton, Michael Factor, Timothy Alan Griffin, Thomas Charles Jarvis, William Frank Micka +2 more 2006-11-07 $5,535,000
7133986 Method, system, and program for forming a consistency group Gail A. Spear, Robert Francis Bartfai, Edward H. Lin, William Frank Micka, Olympia Gluck +3 more 2006-11-07 $5,535,000
7133983 Method, system, and program for asynchronous copy Robert Francis Bartfai, William Frank Micka, Thomas Charles Jarvis, Olympia Gluck, Michael Factor +5 more 2006-11-07 $5,535,000
7133982 Method, system, and article of manufacture for consistent copying of storage volumes William Frank Micka, Sivan Tal, Ifat Nuriel, Sheli Rahav, Gail A. Spear +1 more 2006-11-07 $5,535,000
7127636 Autonomic recovery of PPRC errors detected by PPRC peer Paul Richards, Warren K. Stanley 2006-10-24 $14,060,000
7124128 Method, system, and program for managing requests to tracks subject to a relationship James Springer, Matthew Sanchez, Theresa M. Brown, Richard K. Martinez, Gail A. Spear +2 more 2006-10-17 $10,414,000
7124323 Method, system, and program for recovery of a reverse restore operation Matthew Sanchez, Theresa M. Brown, Gail A. Spear 2006-10-17 $10,414,000
7093556 Inflatable self-righting kayak safety device Robert Werner, Margo Werner 2006-08-22
7024530 Method, system, and program for establishing and using a point-in-time copy relationship Thomas Charles Jarvis, Karl A. Nielsen, Gail A. Spear, William Frank Micka 2006-04-04 $10,598,000
7000145 Method, system, and program for reverse restore of an incremental virtual copy William Frank Micka, Dalit Tzafrir, Matthew Sanchez, Sivan Tal, Ifat Nuriel +9 more 2006-02-14 $5,958,000