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Joseph Blount — 20 Patents

NENetapp: 18 patents #100 of 1,969Top 6%
Oracle: 2 patents #5,565 of 14,854Top 40%
Wichita, KS: #50 of 1,728 inventorsTop 3%
Kansas: #401 of 12,005 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #214,803 of 4,157,543Top 6%
20 Patents All Time
Joseph Blount has been granted 20 US patents while listed as an inventor at Netapp. The first was granted in 2008 and the most recent in April 2025. Joseph Blount ranks #214,803 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.2%). Patent records list Joseph Blount in Wichita, KS, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2008 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2019.peak 32008: 1 patents20082012: 1 patents2016: 1 patents20162017: 2 patents2018: 1 patents20182019: 3 patents2020: 2 patents20202021: 3 patents2022: 2 patents20222023: 3 patents2025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–20 of 20 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12265716 Systems, methods, and computer readable media providing arbitrary sizing of data extents Randolph Sterns, Charles Binford, William P. Delaney, Reid A. Kaufmann, Joseph Moore 2025-04-01
11662929 Systems, methods, and computer readable media providing arbitrary sizing of data extents Randolph Sterns, Charles Binford, William P. Delaney, Reid A. Kaufmann, Joseph Moore 2023-05-30 $25,904,000
11644978 Read and write load sharing in a storage array via partitioned ownership of data blocks Randolph Sterns, Charles Binford, Joseph Moore, William P. Delaney 2023-05-09 $32,890,000
11561696 Garbage collection pacing in a storage system 2023-01-24 $38,275,000
11500592 Systems and methods for allocating data compression activities in a storage system William P. Delaney, Keith Moyer, Randolph Sterns, Joseph Moore, Charles Binford 2022-11-15 $28,518,000
11449239 Write-ahead log maintenance and recovery Randolph Sterns, Charles Binford, William P. Delaney, Keith Moyer, Joseph Moore 2022-09-20 $13,140,000
11175831 Read and write load sharing in a storage array via partitioned ownership of data blocks Randolph Sterns, Charles Binford, Joseph Moore, William P. Delaney 2021-11-16 $41,681,000
11169707 Garbage collection pacing in a storage system 2021-11-09 $34,977,000
11029862 Systems and methods for reducing write tax, memory usage, and trapped capacity in metadata storage 2021-06-08 $74,530,000
10838630 Write-ahead log maintenance and recovery Randolph Sterns, Charles Binford, William P. Delaney, Keith Moyer, Joseph Moore 2020-11-17 $34,336,000
10802740 Systems, methods, and computer readable media providing arbitrary sizing of data extents Randolph Sterns, Charles Binford, William P. Delaney, Reid A. Kaufmann, Joseph Moore 2020-10-13 $91,979,000
10503443 Systems and methods for allocating data compression activities in a storage system William P. Delaney, Keith Moyer, Randolph Sterns, Charles Binford, Joseph Moore 2019-12-10 $26,316,000
10366065 Memory efficient lookup structure William P. Delaney, Charles Binford, Joseph Moore, Randolph Sterns, Jeff Stilger 2019-07-30 $23,714,000
10339017 Methods and systems for using a write cache in a storage system William P. Delaney, Rodney A. DeKoning 2019-07-02 $33,698,000
9990261 System and method for recovering a storage array William P. Delaney, Charles Binford, Joseph Moore, Randolph Sterns 2018-06-05 $23,590,000
9830107 Drive wear-out prediction based on workload and risk tolerance 2017-11-28 $3,459,000
9727278 System and methods for mitigating write emulation on a disk device using cache memory 2017-08-08 $22,999,000
9489149 Methods and systems for using a write cache in a storage system William P. Delaney, Rodney A. DeKoning 2016-11-08 $10,572,000
8121993 Data sharing and recovery within a network of untrusted storage devices using data object fingerprinting Charles Binford, Stacy Lee Maydew 2012-02-21 $45,968,000
7363457 Method and system for providing virtualization data services for legacy storage devices Rodney A. DeKoning, David Kopper, Ronald D. Proulx, Mark Vetter 2008-04-22 $4,279,000