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David K. McElfresh — 57 Patents

Oracle: 45 patents #113 of 14,854Top 1%
HP: 11 patents #1,706 of 16,619Top 15%
San Diego, CA: #561 of 23,606 inventorsTop 3%
California: #6,412 of 386,348 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #42,642 of 4,157,543Top 2%
57 Patents All Time
David K. McElfresh has been granted 57 US patents while listed as an inventor at Oracle. The first was granted in 1996 and the most recent in February 2023. David K. McElfresh ranks #42,642 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.0%). Patent records list David K. McElfresh in San Diego, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1996 to 2023Bar chart with a peak of 10 patents in 2012.peak 101996: 1 patents19962002: 1 patents2003: 3 patents20032004: 2 patents2005: 4 patents20052006: 1 patents2007: 4 patents20072008: 4 patents2009: 1 patents20092010: 6 patents2011: 8 patents20112012: 10 patents2013: 3 patents20132014: 4 patents2016: 1 patents20162017: 1 patents2020: 1 patents20202022: 1 patents2023: 1 patents2023

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 57 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11586195 Estimating the remaining useful life for cooling fans based on a wear-out index analysis Kenny C. Gross, Anton A. Bougaev, Aleksey M. Urmanov 2023-02-21 $121,311,000
11307568 Estimating the remaining useful life for cooling fans based on a wear-out index analysis Kenny C. Gross, Anton A. Bougaev, Aleksey M. Urmanov 2022-04-19 $83,462,000
10591383 Characterizing the I/O-performance-per-watt of a computing device across a range of vibrational operating environments Kenny C. Gross, Anton A. Bougaev, Aleksey M. Urmanov, Kalyanaraman Vaidyanathan 2020-03-17 $29,928,000
9557301 Methods for characterizing vibration of a rack structure Kenny C. Gross, Aleksey M. Urmanov, Anton A. Bougaev 2017-01-31 $45,350,000
9229045 In-situ characterization of a solid-state light source Dan Vacar, Leoncio D. Lopez, Kenny C. Gross 2016-01-05 $23,966,000
8843330 Characterizing the response of a computer system component to vibrations Anton A. Bougaev, Aleksey M. Urmanov, Kenny C. Gross 2014-09-23 $54,384,000
8798944 Estimating ball-grid-array longevity in a computer system Aleksey M. Urmanov, Anton A. Bougaev, Leoncio D. Lopez 2014-08-05 $41,557,000
8666912 Mechanical shock feature extraction for overstress event registration Anton A. Bougaev, Aleksey M. Urmanov, Kenny C. Gross 2014-03-04 $69,686,000
8635048 Methods for characterizing vibration of a rack structure Kenny C. Gross, Aleksey M. Urmanov, Anton A. Bougaev 2014-01-21 $63,525,000
8601212 Scheduling read operations during drive reconstruction in an array of redundant disk drives Anton A. Bougaev, Aleksey M. Urmanov 2013-12-03 $37,246,000
8543346 Near-isotropic antenna for monitoring electromagnetic signals Kenny C. Gross, Robert P. Masleid, Ramakrishna C. Dhanekula 2013-09-24 $31,770,000
8489343 Detecting constrained motion of a component in a computer system Aleksey M. Urmanov, Anton A. Bougaev 2013-07-16 $56,915,000
8340923 Predicting remaining useful life for a computer system using a stress-based prediction technique Alan Paul Wood, Kenny C. Gross 2012-12-25
8306311 Method and system for automated ball-grid array void quantification Anton A. Bougaev, Aleksey M. Urmanov 2012-11-06 $76,956,000
8275738 Radio frequency microscope for amplifying and analyzing electromagnetic signals by positioning the monitored system at a locus of an ellipsoidal surface Kenny C. Gross, Ramakrishna C. Dhanekula 2012-09-25 $59,365,000
8239623 Scheduling read operations during drive reconstruction in an array of redundant disk drives Anton A. Bougaev, Aleksey M. Urmanov 2012-08-07 $45,556,000
8213281 Characterizing the performance of a disk drive across a range of vibration frequencies Anton A. Bougaev, Aleksey M. Urmanov 2012-07-03 $45,931,000
8207752 Fault-tolerant multi-chip module Kannan Raj, Xuezhe Zheng, Ashok V. Krishnamoorthy, Ronald Ho, Michael O. McCracken +1 more 2012-06-26
8204716 System and method for characterizing vibration of a rack structure Kenny C. Gross, Aleksey M. Urmanov, Anton A. Bougaev 2012-06-19 $44,347,000
8190276 Method and apparatus for controlling temperature variations in a computer system Andrew J. Lewis, Kenny C. Gross 2012-05-29 $63,522,000
8140282 Determining a total length for conductive whiskers in computer systems Kenny C. Gross, Ramakrishna C. Dhanekula 2012-03-20 $41,653,000
8140277 Enhanced characterization of electrical connection degradation Kenny C. Gross, Leoncio D. Lopez, Dan Vacar 2012-03-20 $41,653,000
8055594 Proactive detection of metal whiskers in computer systems Ramakrishna C. Dhanekula, Kenny C. Gross 2011-11-08 $110,892,000
7982468 Apparatus and method for testing electrical interconnects with switches Dan Vacar, Robert H. Melanson, Leoncio D. Lopez 2011-07-19 $41,439,000
7920974 Generating a vibration profile for a rotating cooling device in a computer system Anton A. Bougaev, Aleksey M. Urmanov 2011-04-05 $46,786,000