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George Costea — 7 Patents

NENetapp: 6 patents #430 of 1,969Top 25%
HEHewlett Packard Enterprise: 1 patents #2,081 of 4,473Top 50%
Durham, NC: #741 of 4,103 inventorsTop 20%
North Carolina: #7,540 of 45,564 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #680,018 of 4,157,543Top 20%
7 Patents All Time
George Costea has been granted 7 US patents while listed as an inventor at Netapp. The first was granted in 2014 and the most recent in August 2023. George Costea ranks #680,018 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 16.4%). Patent records list George Costea in Durham, NC, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2014 to 2023Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2014.peak 22014: 2 patents20142016: 1 patents20162017: 1 patents20172019: 1 patents20192021: 1 patents20212023: 1 patents2023

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–7 of 7 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11714673 Redeploying a baseline virtual machine to update a child virtual machine by creating and swapping a virtual disk comprising a clone of the baseline virtual machine Eric Forgette 2023-08-01 $18,719,000
11175941 Redeploying a baseline virtual machine to update a child virtual machine by creating and swapping a virtual disk comprising a clone of the baseline virtual machine Eric Forgette 2021-11-16 $41,681,000
10360056 Redeploying a baseline virtual machine to update a child virtual machine by creating and swapping a virtual disk comprising a clone of the baseline virtual machine Eric Forgette 2019-07-23 $15,872,000
9727252 Methods and systems for optimal snapshot distribution within a protection schedule Eric Forgette 2017-08-08 $8,358,000
9424066 Redeploying a baseline virtual machine to update a child virtual machine by creating and swapping a virtual disk comprising a clone of the baseline virtual machine Eric Forgette 2016-08-23 $7,564,000
8898668 Redeploying baseline virtual machine to update a child virtual machine by creating and swapping a virtual disk comprising a clone of the baseline virtual machine Eric Forgette 2014-11-25 $5,566,000
8756598 Diskless virtual machine cloning by separately cloning a virtual drive and configuration data of a source virtual machine for combination into a cloned virtual machine Eric Forgette 2014-06-17 $11,271,000