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Kai Tan — 21 Patents

NENetapp: 11 patents #166 of 1,846Top 9%
NUNutanix: 7 patents #62 of 579Top 15%
Rolls-Royce Plc: 1 patents #1,830 of 2,886Top 65%
Motorola: 1 patents #7,950 of 14,142Top 60%
Cary, NC: #285 of 3,681 inventorsTop 8%
North Carolina: #2,157 of 45,564 inventorsTop 5%
Overall (All Time): #201,324 of 4,157,543Top 5%
21 Patents All Time
Kai Tan has been granted 21 US patents while listed as an inventor at Netapp. The first was granted in 2014 and the most recent in November 2025. Kai Tan ranks #201,324 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.8%). Patent records list Kai Tan in Cary, NC, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–21 of 21 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12481563 Site and storage tier aware reference resolution Brajesh Kumar Shrivastava, Pranab Patnaik 2025-11-25
12259794 Extensive recovery point management using tags Abhishek Gupta, Ajaykumar Rajubhai Bhammar, Brajesh Kumar Shrivastava, Naveen Kumar, Pranab Patnaik +1 more 2025-03-25
12235867 Replication progress tracking technique Freddy James, Karthikeyan Vaideswaran, Ramya Uthamarajan, Kushagra Mishra, Pranab Patnaik 2025-02-25
12229087 Gransets for managing consistency groups of dispersed storage items Devang K. Shah, Dipankar Roy, Krishnaveni Budati, Pranab Patnaik, Akhil Kaushik 2025-02-18
12093151 Managing reference snapshots across multiple sites for efficient failover/failback Karthikeyan Vaideswaran, Pranab Patnaik, Ramya Uthamarajan 2024-09-17 $52,060,000
11953999 Technique for efficient data failover in a multi-site data replication environment Ashish Kumar, Freddy James, Pranab Patnaik 2024-04-09 $25,775,000
11836115 Gransets for managing consistency groups of dispersed storage items Devang K. Shah, Dipankar Roy, Krishnaveni Budati, Pranab Patnaik, Akhil Kaushik 2023-12-05 $16,833,000
11818212 Storage area network attached clustered storage system Santosh Ananth Rao, Geoffrey Stewart Brown, Srikumar Natarajan, Pranab Patnaik, Peter F. Corbett +1 more 2023-11-14 $10,420,000
11436097 Technique for efficient data failover in a multi-site data replication environment Ashish Kumar, Freddy James, Pranab Patnaik 2022-09-06 $21,411,000
11416351 System and method for efficient replication Brajesh Kumar Shrivastava, Abhishek Gupta, Pranab Patnaik 2022-08-16 $23,296,000
11409708 Gransets for managing consistency groups of dispersed storage items Devang K. Shah, Dipankar Roy, Krishnaveni Budati, Pranab Patnaik, Akhil Kaushik 2022-08-09 $21,451,000
11123840 Finishing a surface of a component made by additive manufacturing Moiz S Vohra, Wei Lun TAN, Arun Prasanth NAGALINGAM, Swee Hock YEO, Arthur WEE 2021-09-21
10963182 System and method for on-demand recovery points Eric Blau, Hui Ding, Pranab Patnaik, Vivek Venkatesan 2021-03-30 $22,874,000
10862966 Storage area network attached clustered storage system Santosh Ananth Rao, Geoffrey Stewart Brown, Srikumar Natarajan, Pranab Patnaik, Peter F. Corbett +1 more 2020-12-08 $41,850,000
10719198 Method for associating a group of applications with a specific shape Pawel Jurzak 2020-07-21 $25,940,000
10482066 Gransets for managing consistency groups of dispersed storage items Devang K. Shah, Dipankar Roy, Krishnaveni Budati, Pranab Patnaik, Akhil Kaushik 2019-11-19 $20,380,000
10176064 Granular consistency group replication Pranab Patnaik, Rajesh M. Desai 2019-01-08 $33,778,000
9256377 Consistent distributed storage communication protocol semantics in a clustered storage system Pranab Patnaik, Vivek Venkatesan 2016-02-09 $9,191,000
9203900 Storage area network attached clustered storage system Santosh Rao, Geoffrey Stewart Brown, Srikumar Natarajan, Pranab Patnaik, Peter F. Corbett +1 more 2015-12-01 $16,969,000
8793432 Consistent distributed storage communication protocol semantics in a clustered storage system Pranab Patnaik, Vivek Venkatesan 2014-07-29 $9,590,000
8683170 Consistent distributed storage communication protocol semantics in a clustered storage system Pranab Patnaik, Vivek Venkatesan 2014-03-25 $31,235,000