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Alvin Richards — 4 Patents

NENetapp: 4 patents #589 of 1,969Top 30%
Chapel Hill, NC: #664 of 1,999 inventorsTop 35%
North Carolina: #12,022 of 45,564 inventorsTop 30%
Overall (All Time): #1,080,739 of 4,157,543Top 30%
4 Patents All Time
Alvin Richards has been granted 4 US patents while listed as an inventor at Netapp. The first was granted in 2009 and the most recent in February 2016. Alvin Richards ranks #1,080,739 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 26.0%). Patent records list Alvin Richards in Chapel Hill, NC, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2009 to 2016Bar chart with a peak of 1 patents in 2009.peak 12009: 1 patents20092012: 1 patents20122015: 1 patents20152016: 1 patents2016

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–4 of 4 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9268654 Centralized execution of snapshot backups in a distributed application environment Daniel Holmes, Luke Winckelmann, Manfred A. Buchmann 2016-02-23 $5,520,000
8930497 Centralized execution of snapshot backups in a distributed application environment Daniel Holmes, Luke Winckelmann, Manfred A. Buchmann 2015-01-06 $21,027,000
8117165 Disk-to-disk backup of database archive logs Luke Winckelmann, Manfred A. Buchmann, Alan S. Driscoll 2012-02-14 $20,488,000
7590660 Method and system for efficient database cloning William Taylor 2009-09-15 $18,446,000