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Nigel Horspool — 15 Patents

Kioxia: 7 patents #175 of 1,813Top 10%
3C3Com: 2 patents #536 of 1,250Top 45%
3T3Com Technologies: 2 patents #15 of 53Top 30%
Toshiba Memory: 2 patents #853 of 1,971Top 45%
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba: 1 patents #13,641 of 21,451Top 65%
Overall (All Time): #307,048 of 4,157,543Top 8%
15 Patents All Time
Nigel Horspool has been granted 15 US patents while listed as an inventor at Kioxia. The first was granted in 2001 and the most recent in December 2025. Nigel Horspool ranks #307,048 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 7.4%). Patent records list Nigel Horspool in Abingdon, CA, GB.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2001 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2023.peak 32001: 1 patents20012002: 1 patents20022003: 2 patents20032017: 1 patents20172018: 1 patents20182020: 1 patents20202022: 1 patents20222023: 3 patents20232024: 2 patents20242025: 2 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–15 of 15 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12487744 Throttling NAND read-outs for improved host read performance Brian Clarke 2025-12-02
12353741 Superblock-based write management in non-volatile memory devices Steven Wells, Neil Buxton, Mohinder Saluja, Paul A. Suhler 2025-07-08
11966605 Superblock-based write management in non-volatile memory devices Steven Wells, Neil Buxton, Mohinder Saluja, Paul A. Suhler 2024-04-23
11966295 Capacitor energy management for unexpected power loss in datacenter SSD devices Steve Wells 2024-04-23
11726704 Buffer optimization for solid-state drives Julien Margetts 2023-08-15
11698753 Fairshare between multiple SSD submission queues Brian Clarke 2023-07-11
11586734 Systems and methods for protecting SSDs against threats Gary James Calder 2023-02-21
11347593 Capacitor energy management for unexpected power loss in datacenter SSD devices Steve Wells 2022-05-31
10789130 Capacitor energy management for unexpected power loss in datacenter SSD devices Steve Wells 2020-09-29
9904490 Solid-state mass storage device and method for persisting volatile data to non-volatile media Jeremy Moore, Julien Margetts 2018-02-27
9606915 Pool level garbage collection and wear leveling of solid state devices Yaron Klein 2017-03-28
6594283 Network communication device David Law, Quang T Tran, Patrick Overs 2003-07-15 $3,099,000
6538994 Monitoring of connection between an ethernet hub and an end station Paul J Moran, David Law, Paul Cramphorn 2003-03-25 $3,330,000
6430192 Method for transmitting multimedia packet data using a contention-resolution process Tadhg Creedon, David Law, Terence D. Lockyer 2002-08-06 $4,575,000
6256318 Network hub activity display Pauric O'Callaghan, David Law, Justin A Drummond-Murray, Nicholas Stapleton 2001-07-03 $4,252,000