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Nathan Steven Obr — 30 Patents

Microsoft: 27 patents #1,056 of 40,388Top 3%
WTWestern Digital Technologies: 3 patents #1,011 of 3,180Top 35%
Clyde Hill, WA: #6 of 70 inventorsTop 9%
Washington: #2,583 of 76,902 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #121,623 of 4,157,543Top 3%
30 Patents All Time
Nathan Steven Obr has been granted 30 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2010 and the most recent in April 2021. Nathan Steven Obr ranks #121,623 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.9%). Patent records list Nathan Steven Obr in Clyde Hill, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2010 to 2021Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2012.peak 52010: 3 patents20102011: 2 patents2012: 5 patents20122013: 2 patents2014: 2 patents20142015: 2 patents2016: 3 patents20162017: 5 patents2018: 3 patents20182019: 1 patents2020: 1 patents20202021: 1 patents2021

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 30 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10976928 Remove-on-delete technologies for solid state drive optimization Frank J. Shu 2021-04-13 $203,090,000
10564859 Composite solid state drive identification and optimization technologies Frank J. Shu 2020-02-18 $61,429,000
10216637 Non-volatile memory cache performance improvement Cenk Ergan, Clark D. Nicholson, Dan Teodosiu, Dean L. DeWhitt, Emily N. Wilson +10 more 2019-02-26 $52,330,000
10162534 Ordering commitment of data from a data cache to nonvolatile memory using ordering commands 2018-12-25
10156988 Composite solid state drive identification and optimization technologies Frank J. Shu 2018-12-18 $82,479,000
9940038 Composite solid state drive identification and optimization technologies Frank J. Shu 2018-04-10 $46,319,000
9696907 Remove-on-delete technologies for solid state drive optimization Frank J. Shu 2017-07-04
9645752 Identification of data committed to non-volatile memory by use of notification commands 2017-05-09 $54,548,000
9632711 Processing flush requests by utilizing storage system write notifications 2017-04-25 $36,126,000
9582415 Composite solid state drive identification and optimization technologies Frank J. Shu 2017-02-28 $30,997,000
9552273 Health reporting from non-volatile block storage device to processing device Vladimir Sadovsky, James C. Bovee, Robin A. Alexander 2017-01-24 $42,640,000
9405693 Non-volatile memory cache performance improvement Cenk Ergan, Clark D. Nicholson, Daniel Teodosiu, Dean L. DeWhitt, Emily Nicole Hill +10 more 2016-08-02 $47,886,000
9286211 Health reporting from non-volatile block storage device to processing device Vladimir Sadovsky, James C. Bovee, Robin A. Alexander 2016-03-15 $43,879,000
9261933 Integrating energy budgets for power management David Burg, Vladimir Sadovsky 2016-02-16 $29,091,000
9207876 Remove-on-delete technologies for solid state drive optimization Frank J. Shu 2015-12-08 $46,233,000
8990634 Reporting of intra-device failure data Vladimir Sadovsky, Vincent R. Orgovan, Scott Chao-Chueh Lee 2015-03-24 $16,695,000
8812770 Health reporting from non-volatile block storage device to processing device Vladimir Sadovsky, James C. Bovee, Robin A. Alexander 2014-08-19 $30,011,000
8683145 Packed storage commands and storage command streams Andrew Herron 2014-03-25 $29,958,000
8433931 Integrating energy budgets for power management David Burg, Vladimir Sadovsky 2013-04-30 $25,167,000
8429677 Composite solid state drive identification and optimization technologies Frank J. Shu 2013-04-23 $18,172,000
8321701 Adaptive flushing of storage data Andrew Herron 2012-11-27 $16,695,000
8255645 Non-volatile memory cache performance improvement Cenk Ergan, Clark D. Nicholson, Dan Teodosiu, Dean L. DeWhitt, Emily Nicole Hill +10 more 2012-08-28 $15,180,000
8214621 Storage optimization across media with differing capabilities Robert D. Rinne 2012-07-03 $17,614,000
8214343 Purposing persistent data through hardware metadata tagging Vladimir Sadovsky 2012-07-03 $17,614,000
8161251 Heterogeneous storage array optimization through eviction Sompong Paul Olarig, Shiv Rajpal 2012-04-17 $18,832,000