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Ioan Oltean — 10 Patents

Microsoft: 7 patents #6,431 of 40,388Top 20%
VIVisx, Incorporated: 2 patents #28 of 53Top 55%
BSBear Medical Systems: 1 patents #11 of 23Top 50%
Corona, CA: #133 of 1,452 inventorsTop 10%
California: #61,378 of 386,348 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #481,000 of 4,157,543Top 15%
10 Patents All Time
Ioan Oltean has been granted 10 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 1992 and the most recent in August 2024. Ioan Oltean ranks #481,000 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 11.6%). Patent records list Ioan Oltean in Corona, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1992 to 2024Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2020.peak 41992: 1 patents19922000: 1 patents20002001: 1 patents20012020: 4 patents20202021: 1 patents20212022: 1 patents20222024: 1 patents2024

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–10 of 10 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12073079 Zone hints for zoned namespace storage devices Scott Chao-Chueh Lee, Vadim Makhervaks, Madhav Himanshubhai PANDYA, Laura Marie Caulfield, Lee E. Prewitt 2024-08-27 $239,991,000
11314459 Distributed metadata management in a distributed storage system Cheng Huang, Andrew James Edwards, Shane Mainali, Aaron W. Ogus, Huseyin Simitci +3 more 2022-04-26 $446,931,000
10922183 In-place disk unformatting David A. Goebel 2021-02-16 $170,991,000
10789223 Hybrid garbage collection in a distributed storage system Cheng Huang, Andrew James Edwards, Shane Mainali, Aaron W. Ogus, Huseyin Simitci +3 more 2020-09-29 $190,718,000
10754549 Append only streams for storing data on a solid state device Bryan Stephen Matthew, Aaron W. Ogus, Vadim Makhervaks, Laura Marie Caulfield, Rajsekhar Das +5 more 2020-08-25 $144,218,000
10585627 Distributed metadata management in a distributed storage system Cheng Huang, Andrew James Edwards, Shane Mainali, Aaron W. Ogus, Huseyin Simitci +3 more 2020-03-10 $83,394,000
10558565 Garbage collection implementing erasure coding Rushi Srinivas Surla, Jegan Devaraju, Maneesh Sah, Julia Johnstone 2020-02-11 $73,871,000
6299307 Eye tracking device for laser eye surgery using corneal margin detection John K. Shimmick, Terrance N. Clapham 2001-10-09 $11,330,000
6044113 Digital pulse width modulator 2000-03-28 $25,224,000
5107831 Ventilator control system using sensed inspiratory flow rate Arieh S. Halpern 1992-04-28