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Charles E. Nichols — 24 Patents

LSLsi: 14 patents #237 of 3,238Top 8%
TDThe Drackett: 5 patents #7 of 99Top 8%
BIBuilding Materials Investment: 1 patents #100 of 182Top 55%
NENetapp: 1 patents #1,159 of 1,846Top 65%
SGSterling Plumbing Group: 1 patents #14 of 26Top 55%
Ford: 1 patents #9,400 of 17,473Top 55%
Woodridge, IL: #16 of 450 inventorsTop 4%
Illinois: #2,896 of 84,256 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #168,038 of 4,157,543Top 5%
24 Patents All Time
Charles E. Nichols has been granted 24 US patents while listed as an inventor at Lsi. The first was granted in 1981 and the most recent in November 2020. Charles E. Nichols ranks #168,038 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.0%). Patent records list Charles E. Nichols in Woodridge, IL, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–24 of 24 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10826848 Balanced, opportunistic multicore I/O scheduling from non-SMP applications Scott Terrill, Don Humlicek, Arindam Banerjee, Yulu Diao, Anthony D. Gitchell 2020-11-03 $21,003,000
8776060 Methods and structure for near-live reprogramming of firmware in storage systems using a hypervisor Martin Jess, Rexford Hill, John Gifford Logan, Timothy Snider 2014-07-08
8015439 Method for handling more than a maximum number of supported drives in a raid configuration Atul Mukker, Daniel G. Samuelraj 2011-09-06
7904647 System for optimizing the performance and reliability of a storage controller cache offload circuit Mohamad El-Batal, John V. Sherman, Keith W. Holt, Jason M. Stuhlsatz 2011-03-08
7584368 Apparatus and methods for power management and spin-up in a storage system Drew M. Marti, William G. Deitz 2009-09-01 $5,881,000
7562176 Apparatus and methods for clustering multiple independent PCI express hierarchies John R. Kloeppner, Dennis E. Gates, Robert E. Stubbs, Mohamad El-Batal, Russell J. Henry 2009-07-14 $25,758,000
7430635 Methods and structure for improved import/export of RAID level 6 volumes William Hetrick 2008-09-30 $4,674,000
7418550 Methods and structure for improved import/export of raid level 6 volumes William Hetrick 2008-08-26 $48,524,000
7171518 Data storage system recovery from disk failure during system off-line condition William Hetrick, Donald R. Humlicek 2007-01-30 $4,044,000
7085910 Memory window manager for control structure access William P. Delaney, William Hetrick 2006-08-01 $2,812,000
6959413 Method of handling unreadable blocks during rebuilding of a RAID device Donald R. Humlicek, William P. Delaney 2005-10-25 $4,852,000
6944791 Method of handling unreadable blocks during write of a RAID device Donald R. Humlicek, David Ulrich 2005-09-13 $4,621,000
6889294 Virtual shared volume via proxy data transfer Keith W. Holt 2005-05-03 $5,624,000
6859890 Method for reducing data/parity inconsistencies due to a storage controller failure Donald R. Humlicek 2005-02-22 $4,371,000
6816950 Method and apparatus for upgrading disk drive firmware in a RAID storage system 2004-11-09 $3,072,000
6705050 Flashing device 2004-03-16
6655071 Waterfowl decoy mounting device Charles David Barnes, Ellen Marie McLean, John R. Howard, William Sigsworth 2003-12-02
5083729 Storage system for holding athletic equipment and a method Ford Saeks, John R. Howard 1992-01-28
5063638 Hinge assembly John R. Howard 1991-11-12
4642837 Broom having interlocking components John R. Howard 1987-02-17 $12,614,000
D282112 Broom shroud Daniel A. Maust 1986-01-07
4538318 Push broom assembly James E. Lammert, John R. Howard 1985-09-03 $6,578,000
D271635 Broom shroud David A. Jones 1983-12-06
4302862 Snow removal tool Robert W. Machacek, John R. Howard 1981-12-01 $5,790,000