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Steven Wells — 74 Patents

Intel: 59 patents #505 of 30,777Top 2%
Kioxia: 11 patents #90 of 1,813Top 5%
Toshiba Memory: 4 patents #468 of 1,971Top 25%
San Jose, CA: #491 of 32,062 inventorsTop 2%
California: #4,029 of 386,348 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #26,215 of 4,157,543Top 1%
74 Patents All Time
Steven Wells has been granted 74 US patents while listed as an inventor at Intel. The first was granted in 1991 and the most recent in July 2025. Steven Wells ranks #26,215 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.63%). Patent records list Steven Wells in San Jose, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 74 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12353741 Superblock-based write management in non-volatile memory devices Neil Buxton, Nigel Horspool, Mohinder Saluja, Paul A. Suhler 2025-07-08
12124719 Superblock size management in non-volatile memory devices Neil Buxton 2024-10-22
12112070 Page buffer enhancements Neil Buxton, Avadhani Shridhar, Nicole Ross 2024-10-08
12032438 SSD architecture supporting low latency operation Mark Carlson, Amit Jain, Narasimhulu Dharani Kotte, Senthil Thangaraj, Barada Mishra +1 more 2024-07-09
11966605 Superblock-based write management in non-volatile memory devices Neil Buxton, Nigel Horspool, Mohinder Saluja, Paul A. Suhler 2024-04-23
11914898 Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for thin provisioning in non-volatile memory storage devices Neil Buxton 2024-02-27
11803222 Systems and methods for managing reduced power failure energy requirements on a solid state drive Robert Joseph Reed 2023-10-31
11704061 Page buffer enhancements Neil Buxton, Avadhani Shridhar, Nicole Ross 2023-07-18
11662942 Explicit buffer control Avadhani Shridhar, Neil Buxton, Nicole Ross 2023-05-30
11482294 Media error reporting improvements for storage drives Neil Buxton, Shigehiro Asano, Mark Carlson 2022-10-25
11294594 SSD architecture supporting low latency operation Mark Carlson, Amit Jain, Narasimhulu Dharani Kotte, Senthil Thangaraj, Barada Mishra +1 more 2022-04-05
11048312 Systems and methods for managing reduced power failure energy requirements on a solid state drive Robert Joseph Reed 2021-06-29
11049581 Media error reporting improvements for storage drives Neil Buxton, Shigehiro Asano, Mark Carlson 2021-06-29
10628081 Managing internal command queues in solid state storage drives Neil Buxton 2020-04-21
10607712 Media error reporting improvements for storage drives Neil Buxton, Shigehiro Asano, Mark Carlson 2020-03-31
10185511 Technologies for managing an operational characteristic of a solid state drive Neeraj Sharma, Ning Wu 2019-01-22 $27,645,000
9213400 Apparatus and method to provide near zero power DEVSLP in SATA drives 2015-12-15 $18,227,000
9059854 Protocol for authenticating functionality in a peripheral device Ned M. Smith, Robert W. Strong 2015-06-16 $24,798,000
8874834 Tracking a lifetime of write operations to a non-volatile memory storage Victor W. Locasio, Will Akin 2014-10-28 $15,939,000
8578161 Protocol for authenticating functionality in a peripheral device Ned M. Smith, Robert W. Strong 2013-11-05 $24,872,000
8566506 Tracking a lifetime of write operations to a non-volatile memory storage Victor W. Locasio, Will Akin 2013-10-22 $17,912,000
8433854 Apparatus and method for cache utilization R. Scott Tetrick, Dale Juenemann, Jordan Howes, Jeanna N. Matthews, Glenn J. Hinton +1 more 2013-04-30 $19,607,000
7350083 Integrated circuit chip having firmware and hardware security primitive device(s) V. Niles Kynett 2008-03-25 $11,219,000
7269614 Secure hardware random number generator V. Niles Kynett, Lance W. Dover 2007-09-11 $15,808,000
7177888 Programmable random bit source 2007-02-13 $12,105,000