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Gerald E. Smith — 22 Patents

LSLsi: 11 patents #292 of 3,238Top 10%
APAvago Technologies General Ip (Singapore) Pte.: 6 patents #139 of 2,004Top 7%
AIAiwa: 1 patents #33 of 72Top 50%
INIngersoll-Rand: 1 patents #412 of 828Top 50%
Boulder, CO: #279 of 5,018 inventorsTop 6%
Colorado: #1,728 of 40,980 inventorsTop 5%
Overall (All Time): #189,202 of 4,157,543Top 5%
22 Patents All Time
Gerald E. Smith has been granted 22 US patents while listed as an inventor at Lsi. The first was granted in 1980 and the most recent in January 2017. Gerald E. Smith ranks #189,202 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.6%). Patent records list Gerald E. Smith in Boulder, CO, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–22 of 22 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9542126 Redundant array of independent disks systems that utilize spans with different storage device counts for a logical volume David Moon, Anuj Jain, Naveen Krishnamurthy, Subhankar Mukherjee 2017-01-10 $25,915,000
9298648 Method and system for I/O flow management using RAID controller with DMA capabilitiy to directly send data to PCI-E devices connected to PCI-E switch Stephen B. Johnson, Brad D. Besmer, Lawrence Rawe 2016-03-29 $93,673,000
9250832 Confirmed divert bitmap to synchronize raid firmware operations with fast-path hardware I/O processing Robert L. Sheffield 2016-02-02 $36,192,000
9134913 Methods and structure for improved processing of I/O requests in fast path circuits of a storage controller in a clustered storage system James A. Rizzo, Vinu Velayudhan, Adam Weiner 2015-09-15 $31,090,000
9058267 I/O path selection 2015-06-16 $93,042,000
9052829 Methods and structure for improved I/O shipping in a clustered storage system James A. Rizzo, Vinu Velayudhan, Adam Weiner, Basavaraj Hallyal 2015-06-09 $31,185,000
9009375 Sharing of bypassed I/O transaction information James A. Rizzo, Robert L. Sheffield, Anant Baderdinni 2015-04-14
8938574 Methods and systems using solid-state drives as storage controller cache memory Basavaraj Hallyal 2015-01-20
8782369 Apparatus to manage efficient data migration between tiers Anant Baderdinni, Mark Ish 2014-07-15
8621603 Methods and structure for managing visibility of devices in a clustered storage system James A. Rizzo, Basavaraj Hallyal, Adam Weiner, Vinu Velayudhan 2013-12-31
8484416 High availability raid using low-cost direct attached raid controllers 2013-07-09
7788420 Address buffer mode switching for varying request sizes Parag R. Maharana, Senthil Thangaraj 2010-08-31 $4,227,000
7533298 Write journaling using battery backed cache Anant Baderdinni 2009-05-12 $20,632,000
7039799 Methods and structure for BIOS reconfiguration Russell Foster 2006-05-02 $3,544,000
7020770 Method and apparatus for configuration of RAID controllers Paresh Chatterjee, Basavaraj Hallyal 2006-03-28 $3,034,000
6934769 Methods and structure for SCSI/IDE translation in a storage subsystem 2005-08-23 $3,565,000
6886059 Methods and structure for SCSI/IDE translation for non-SCSI enclosures in a storage subsystem Loyola Pitchai 2005-04-26 $2,840,000
6347359 Method for reconfiguration of RAID data storage systems Adam Weiner 2002-02-12
6264272 Apparatus for ergonomic placement of computer pointing device Steven R. Jones 2001-07-24
5889933 Adaptive power failure recovery 1999-03-30
D380217 Pneumatic motor Mark D. Jermeay, Richard K. Gardner, Roger D. Wieland 1997-06-24
4202240 Bridge pin 1980-05-13