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William Joseph Piazza — 63 Patents

IBM: 58 patents #1,384 of 70,183Top 2%
LPLenovo (Singapore) Pte.: 4 patents #697 of 1,301Top 55%
Holly Springs, NC: #4 of 335 inventorsTop 2%
North Carolina: #380 of 45,564 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #35,784 of 4,157,543Top 1%
63 Patents All Time

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 51–63 of 63 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
6966006 Adaptive startup policy for accelerating multi-disk array spin-up Joaquin F. Pacheco, Gregory B. Pruett, David B. Rhoades, Linda Ann Riedle 2005-11-15
6961794 System and method for analyzing and optimizing computer system performance utilizing observed time performance measures William E. Atherton, Randal L. Bertram, Gregory J. McKnight 2005-11-01
6941450 System and method for identifying one or more optimum configurations of a data processing system William E. Atherton, Gregory J. McKnight 2005-09-06
6934864 System and method for co-operative thermal management of electronic devices within a common housing Simon Chu, James E. Hughes, James F. Macon, Jr., Michael Scott Rollins, Sharon Lynn Sanders-Fore +1 more 2005-08-23
6931568 Fail-over control in a computer system having redundant service processors Antonio Abbondanzio, Gregory W. Dake, Dhruv M. Desai, Benjamin Grimes, Gregory B. Pruett +1 more 2005-08-16
6889908 Thermal analysis in a data processing system Martin Joseph Crippen, Jason A. Matteson 2005-05-10
6883125 Logging insertion/removal of server blades in a data processing system Antonio Abbondanzio, Simon Chu, Gregory W. Dake, William G. Holland, Gregory B. Pruett +1 more 2005-04-19
6802611 System and method for presenting, capturing, and modifying images on a presentation board Simon Chu, David B. Rhoades 2004-10-12
6762691 Method and system for automatically locating equipment stored in a rack 2004-07-13
5603011 Selective shadowing and paging in computer memory systems 1997-02-11
5481754 Apparatus and method for bios interface to features in multiple adapter cards in one operation using registers with bits distributed across the adapter cards 1996-01-02
5481755 Apparatus and method for addressing multiple adapter cards in one operation by distributing bits of registers across the adapter cards Jeffrey Dean Harper, Paul W. Kalendra, Howard Carl Tanner, Anh Vinh 1996-01-02
5283559 Automatic calibration of a capacitive touch screen used with a fixed element flat screen display panel Paul W. Kalendra 1994-02-01