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Simeon Furrer — 109 Patents

IBM: 101 patents #558 of 70,183Top 1%
Broadcom: 4 patents #2,599 of 9,346Top 30%
Globalfoundries: 3 patents #1,029 of 4,424Top 25%
Overall (All Time): #12,191 of 4,157,543Top 1%
109 Patents All Time
Simeon Furrer has been granted 109 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 2008 and the most recent in July 2025. Simeon Furrer ranks #12,191 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.29%). Patent records list Simeon Furrer in Altdorf, CA, CH.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2008 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 18 patents in 2017.peak 182008: 2 patents20082010: 3 patents2011: 2 patents20112012: 2 patents2013: 1 patents20132014: 2 patents2015: 15 patents20152016: 16 patents2017: 18 patents20172018: 9 patents2019: 12 patents20192020: 7 patents2021: 7 patents20212022: 1 patents2023: 1 patents20232024: 8 patents2025: 3 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 109 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12367901 Segmented tape head Hugo E. Rothuizen, Mark A. Lantz, Beat Weiss, Luzius Kronig 2025-07-22
12266387 Reworkable tape track following actuator Mark A. Lantz, Walter Haeberle, David H. F. Harper 2025-04-01
12217778 Adjusting a skew angle and lateral position of a tape head to reduce track placement errors Luzius Kronig, Mark A. Lantz 2025-02-04
12165674 Write data management Mark A. Lantz, Martin Petermann, Ilias Iliadis 2024-12-10 $44,181,000
12131761 Servo pattern for skew based tape dimensional stability compensation Nhan X. Bui, Mark A. Lantz, Robert G. Biskeborn 2024-10-29 $23,226,000
12124740 Selective hard and soft rewrites Ernest S. Gale, Roy D. Cideciyan, Masayuki Iwanaga, Keisuke Tanaka 2024-10-22 $22,450,000
12014755 Side erasure control for track writing in a system Mark A. Lantz, Hugo E. Rothuizen, Stella Brach, Jason Liang, Icko E. T. Iben +2 more 2024-06-18 $16,708,000
11994169 Guide roller having magnets and bushings to stabilize a roller barrel for a tape medium Kevin B. Judd, Walter Haeberle, Mark A. Lantz, Armando Jesus Argumedo 2024-05-28 $16,652,000
11972783 Magnetic recording tape having servo pattern for tape dimensional stability compensation via head skew Nhan X. Bui, Kevin B. Judd, Mark A. Lantz 2024-04-30 $14,003,000
11967342 Header decoding mechanism for tape storage Kevin D. Butt, Roy D. Cideciyan, Masayuki Iwanaga, Keisuke Tanaka 2024-04-23 $9,522,000
11862194 Adaptive data detection on a nonlinear channel Roy D. Cideciyan, Mark A. Lantz 2024-01-02 $10,021,000
11682423 Servo pattern for skew based tape dimensional stability compensation Nhan X. Bui, Mark A. Lantz, Robert G. Biskeborn 2023-06-20 $4,843,000
11373676 Write transducer with recessed portion to improve track shingling performance Robert E. Fontana, Jr., Icko E. T. Iben, Mark A. Lantz, Hugo E. Rothuizen 2022-06-28 $8,334,000
11205131 Sequence detection Hazar Yüksel, Giovanni Cherubini, Roy D. Cideciyan, Marcel A. Kossel 2021-12-21 $5,237,000
11145323 Accurate skew determination for magnetic tapes experiencing the effects of tape dimensional instability Nhan X. Bui, Giovanni Cherubini, Mark A. Lantz 2021-10-12 $3,967,000
11031042 Efficient rewrite using larger codeword sizes Roy D. Cideciyan, Mark A. Lantz 2021-06-08 $4,452,000
10990298 Implementing data requests with quality of service information Paul M. Greco, Edwin R. Childers, Roy D. Cideciyan, Mark A. Lantz 2021-04-27 $8,613,000
10937453 Magnetic tape device capable of selecting codeword rewrite based on determined threshold Kevin D. Butt, Roy D. Cideciyan, Masayuki Iwanaga, Mark A. Lantz, Keisuke Tanaka 2021-03-02 $2,720,000
10901825 Implementing a storage drive utilizing a streaming mode Paul M. Greco, Edwin R. Childers, Roy D. Cideciyan, Mark A. Lantz 2021-01-26 $1,788,000
10884653 Implementing a mapping between data at a storage drive and data blocks at a host Paul M. Greco, Edwin R. Childers, Roy D. Cideciyan, Mark A. Lantz 2021-01-05 $2,293,000
10824346 Logical format utilizing lateral encoding of data for storage on magnetic tape Roy D. Cideciyan, Ernest S. Gale, Mark A. Lantz 2020-11-03 $4,313,000
10770102 Hybrid servo pattern configurations for magnetic tape Nhan X. Bui, Giovanni Cherubini, Mark A. Lantz, Kazuhiro Tsuruta 2020-09-08 $3,136,000
10691376 Prioritized sourcing for efficient rewriting Kevin D. Butt, Roy D. Cideciyan, Mark A. Lantz 2020-06-23 $2,380,000
10657997 Characterization of nonlinearity in servo patterns Kevin B. Judd, Angeliki Pantazi, Mark A. Lantz 2020-05-19 $2,035,000
10650852 Compensation for nonlinearity in servo patterns Kevin B. Judd, Angeliki Pantazi, Mark A. Lantz 2020-05-12 $2,725,000