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William McGovern — 21 Patents

NENetapp: 18 patents #106 of 1,969Top 6%
ATAechelon Technology: 1 patents #6 of 6Top 100%
BCBracket Computing: 1 patents #6 of 10Top 60%
Broadcom: 1 patents #5,859 of 9,346Top 65%
San Jose, CA: #3,111 of 32,062 inventorsTop 10%
California: #27,449 of 386,348 inventorsTop 8%
Overall (All Time): #201,324 of 4,157,543Top 5%
21 Patents All Time
William McGovern has been granted 21 US patents while listed as an inventor at Netapp. The first was granted in 2004 and the most recent in January 2021. William McGovern ranks #201,324 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.8%). Patent records list William McGovern in San Jose, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2004 to 2021Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2009.peak 42004: 1 patents20042006: 1 patents2008: 1 patents20082009: 4 patents2010: 3 patents20102011: 3 patents2012: 2 patents20122013: 1 patents2015: 2 patents20152018: 2 patents2021: 1 patents2021

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–21 of 21 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10896257 Secure boot of virtualized computing instances Jason A. Lango, Adam Cain, Nitin Bahadur, John K. Edwards, Kevin George +1 more 2021-01-19 $16,149,000
9953168 Secure boot of virtualized computing instances Jason A. Lango, Adam Cain, Nitin Bahadur, John K. Edwards, Kevin George +1 more 2018-04-24
9886287 Adaptive device driver method and system Josh Silberman 2018-02-06 $87,446,000
9158552 Adaptive device driver method and system Josh Silberman 2015-10-13 $26,758,000
9036444 Redundant memory system and associated method thereof Joshua Oren Silberman, Wayne Ando, David Morgan Robles 2015-05-19 $4,754,000
8347293 Mutual exclusion domains to perform file system processes on stripes Jason A. Lango, Robert M. English, Yasuhiro Endo, Mehul S. Shah 2013-01-01
8332362 Write-once-read-many storage system and method for implementing the same Jeffrey Heller, J. Christopher Wagner 2012-12-11 $30,158,000
8316244 Power failure system and method for storing request information Jozef Tupy 2012-11-20 $27,684,000
8028135 Method and apparatus for maintaining compliant storage Stephen L. Manley 2011-09-27 $18,542,000
7930493 System and method for record retention date in a write once read many storage system Jeffrey Heller 2011-04-19 $17,520,000
7921237 Preserving data integrity of DMA descriptors Thomas Holland 2011-04-05 $14,468,000
7774610 Method and apparatus for verifiably migrating WORM data Jeffrey D. Merrick 2010-08-10 $17,544,000
7752401 Method and apparatus to automatically commit files to WORM status Jeffrey D. Merrick 2010-07-06 $12,396,000
7698506 Partial tag offloading for storage server victim cache Robert L. Fair, Thomas Holland, Jason Sylvain 2010-04-13 $10,553,000
7590807 System and method for record retention date in a write once read many storage system Jeffrey Heller 2009-09-15 $18,446,000
7581118 Disk sanitization using encryption — 2009-08-25 $43,868,000
7558839 Read-after-write verification for improved write-once-read-many data storage — 2009-07-07 $36,935,000
7526620 Disk sanitization in an active file system — 2009-04-28 $32,656,000
7366834 System and method for record retention date in a write once read many storage system Jeffrey Heller 2008-04-29 $40,961,000
7155460 Write-once-read-many storage system and method for implementing the same Jeffrey Heller, J. Christopher Wagner 2006-12-26 $32,847,000
6735557 LUT-based system for simulating sensor-assisted perception of terrain Javier Castellar, Luis A. Barcena, Ignacio Sanz-Pastor 2004-05-11

Frequent Collaborators

Jeffrey Heller5 shared
Jason A. Lango3 shared
Kevin George2 shared
Adam Cain2 shared
Josh Silberman2 shared
Thomas Holland2 shared

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