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Steven R. Hetzler — 122 Patents

IBM: 118 patents #428 of 70,183Top 1%
HGHGST: 3 patents #652 of 1,677Top 40%
SHSk Hynix: 1 patents #3,115 of 4,849Top 65%
Los Altos, CA: #46 of 3,651 inventorsTop 2%
California: #1,549 of 386,348 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #9,627 of 4,157,543Top 1%
122 Patents All Time
Steven R. Hetzler has been granted 122 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1991 and the most recent in November 2025. Steven R. Hetzler ranks #9,627 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.23%). Patent records list Steven R. Hetzler in Los Altos, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1993 to 2024Bar chart with a peak of 11 patents in 2018.peak 111993: 3 patents19931994: 2 patents1995: 3 patents1996: 3 patents19961997: 2 patents1998: 3 patents1999: 6 patents19992000: 1 patents2001: 1 patents2004: 1 patents20042005: 5 patents2006: 4 patents2007: 2 patents20072008: 1 patents2009: 2 patents2010: 3 patents20102011: 3 patents2012: 4 patents2013: 7 patents20132014: 6 patents2015: 4 patents2016: 7 patents20162017: 6 patents2018: 11 patents2019: 6 patents20192020: 6 patents2021: 7 patents2022: 3 patents20222023: 4 patents2024: 4 patents2024

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 122 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12481796 Secure memory sharing Guerney D. H. Hunt, Charles Ray Johns, James Allan Kahle 2025-11-25
12052346 Secure secret recovery 2024-07-30 $29,498,000
11991293 Authorized secure data movement John S. Best, Guerney D. H. Hunt, Wayne C. Hineman 2024-05-21 $15,464,000
11930109 Encrypted storage with secure access Wayne C. Hineman, John S. Best 2024-03-12 $11,845,000
11868460 Authorized encryption Guerney D. H. Hunt 2024-01-09 $9,963,000
11836267 Opaque encryption for data deduplication 2023-12-05 $10,759,000
11803648 Key in lockbox encrypted data deduplication Wayne C. Hineman, John S. Best 2023-10-31 $8,788,000
11743241 Secure data movement Guerney D. H. Hunt 2023-08-29 $6,011,000
11544387 Hash protection within an object storage library Rajamohan Gandhasri, Robert M. Rees, Wayne C. Hineman, John S. Best, Zhenxing Han 2023-01-03 $14,209,000
11474898 Multiple responder approach to systems with different types of failures Mario Blaum 2022-10-18 $6,904,000
11372549 Reclaiming free space in a storage system Wayne C. Hineman 2022-06-28 $8,334,000
11295028 Multi-key encrypted data deduplication Wayne C. Hineman, John S. Best 2022-04-05 $5,706,000
11210024 Optimizing read-modify-write operations to a storage device by writing a copy of the write data to a shadow block Zhenxing Han, Robert M. Rees, Veera W. Deenadhayalan 2021-12-28 $7,175,000
11190209 Expansion for Blaum-Roth codes Mario Blaum, Veera W. Deenadhayalan 2021-11-30 $2,996,000
11182249 Block ID encoding in an erasure coded storage system Mario Blaum 2021-11-23 $2,653,000
11175986 Storage systems implementing offset erasure code stripes John S. Best 2021-11-16 $1,912,000
11099980 Host aware update write Robert M. Rees 2021-08-24 $4,861,000
11038533 Expansion for generalized EVENODD codes Mario Blaum 2021-06-15 $4,393,000
10884861 Write-balanced parity assignment within a cluster 2021-01-05 $2,293,000
10831373 Reclaiming free space in a storage system Wayne C. Hineman 2020-11-10 $848,000
10740183 Recovering failed devices in distributed data centers Mario Blaum 2020-08-11 $2,122,000
10740182 Erased memory page reconstruction using distributed coding for multiple dimensional parities Mario Blaum, Aayush Gupta, James L. Hafner 2020-08-11 $2,122,000
10620831 High performance optical storage system for protection against concurrent data loss Mario Blaum, Wayne C. Hineman, Robert M. Rees 2020-04-14 $1,668,000
10580451 Disc storage cassettes comprising index features David J. Altknecht, Donald S. Bethune, William M. Dyer, A. David Erpelding, Drew B. Lawson +1 more 2020-03-03 $1,865,000
10572345 First responder parities for storage array Mario Blaum 2020-02-25 $1,919,000