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Randolph Sterns — 17 Patents

NENetapp: 15 patents #143 of 1,969Top 8%
APAvago Technologies General Ip (Singapore) Pte.: 1 patents #883 of 2,004Top 45%
LSLsi: 1 patents #2,702 of 3,238Top 85%
Boulder, CO: #393 of 5,018 inventorsTop 8%
Colorado: #2,451 of 40,980 inventorsTop 6%
Overall (All Time): #263,971 of 4,157,543Top 7%
17 Patents All Time
Randolph Sterns has been granted 17 US patents while listed as an inventor at Netapp. The first was granted in 2014 and the most recent in April 2025. Randolph Sterns ranks #263,971 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 6.3%). Patent records list Randolph Sterns in Boulder, CO, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2014 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2016.peak 22014: 1 patents20142016: 2 patents2017: 1 patents20172018: 2 patents2019: 2 patents20192020: 2 patents2021: 1 patents20212022: 2 patents2023: 2 patents20232024: 1 patents2025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–17 of 17 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12265716 Systems, methods, and computer readable media providing arbitrary sizing of data extents Charles Binford, William P. Delaney, Joseph Blount, Reid A. Kaufmann, Joseph Moore 2025-04-01
11861176 Processing of input/ouput operations by a distributed storage system based on latencies assigned thereto at the time of receipt Austino Longo 2024-01-02 $7,847,000
11662929 Systems, methods, and computer readable media providing arbitrary sizing of data extents Charles Binford, William P. Delaney, Joseph Blount, 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 Charles Binford, Joseph Blount, Joseph Moore, William P. Delaney 2023-05-09 $32,890,000
11500592 Systems and methods for allocating data compression activities in a storage system William P. Delaney, Keith Moyer, Joseph Moore, Joseph Blount, Charles Binford 2022-11-15 $28,518,000
11449239 Write-ahead log maintenance and recovery Charles Binford, William P. Delaney, Joseph Blount, 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 Charles Binford, Joseph Blount, Joseph Moore, William P. Delaney 2021-11-16 $41,681,000
10838630 Write-ahead log maintenance and recovery Charles Binford, William P. Delaney, Joseph Blount, Keith Moyer, Joseph Moore 2020-11-17 $34,336,000
10802740 Systems, methods, and computer readable media providing arbitrary sizing of data extents Charles Binford, William P. Delaney, Joseph Blount, 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, Joseph Blount, Charles Binford, Joseph Moore 2019-12-10 $26,316,000
10366065 Memory efficient lookup structure William P. Delaney, Joseph Blount, Charles Binford, Joseph Moore, Jeff Stilger 2019-07-30 $23,714,000
9990261 System and method for recovering a storage array Joseph Blount, William P. Delaney, Charles Binford, Joseph Moore 2018-06-05 $23,590,000
9946484 Dynamic routing of input/output requests in array systems Mark Edward Regester 2018-04-17 $36,958,000
9606918 Methods and systems for dynamically controlled caching Mark Edward Regester, Kevin Kidney, Yulu Diao 2017-03-28 $36,394,000
9483402 Methods and systems for dynamically controlled caching Mark Edward Regester, Kevin Kidney, Yulu Diao 2016-11-01 $7,438,000
9384160 Methods and controllers for affiliation managment Randy K. Hall, Chad Schneider 2016-07-05 $18,323,000
8756371 Methods and apparatus for improved raid parity computation in a storage controller Randy K. Hall, Dennis E. Gates, John R. Kloeppner, Mohamad El-Batal 2014-06-17