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Mark L. McAuliffe — 42 Patents

PSPure Storage: 35 patents #39 of 486Top 9%
Oracle: 5 patents #2,558 of 14,854Top 20%
San Francisco, CA: #649 of 26,999 inventorsTop 3%
California: #10,667 of 386,348 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #72,062 of 4,157,543Top 2%
42 Patents All Time
Mark L. McAuliffe has been granted 42 US patents while listed as an inventor at Pure Storage. The first was granted in 2007 and the most recent in November 2025. Mark L. McAuliffe ranks #72,062 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.7%). Patent records list Mark L. McAuliffe in San Francisco, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 42 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12468488 Tiering valid data after a disaster recovery operation Ronald Karr, Constantine P. Sapuntzakis, Farhan Abrol, Neil A. Vachharajani, Timothy W. Brennan 2025-11-11
12443763 Encrypting data using non-repeating identifiers Ethan Miller, John Colgrove, Naveen Neelakantam, Marco Sanvido, Neil Vachharajani +1 more 2025-10-14
12366972 Allocation of differing erase block sizes Andrew R. Bernat, Timothy W. Brennan, Neil Vachharajani 2025-07-22
12293111 Pattern forming for heterogeneous erase blocks Eric D. Seppanen, Andrew R. Bernat, Timothy W. Brennan, Neil Vachharajani 2025-05-06
12248379 Using mirrored copies for data availability Neil Vachharajani, Farhan Abrol 2025-03-11
12001684 Optimizing dynamic power loss protection adjustment in a storage system Gordon James Coleman, Andrew R. Bernat, Peter E. Kirkpatrick, Eric Kelly Blanchard, Benjamin Scholbrock +1 more 2024-06-04 $28,953,000
11947968 Efficient use of zone in a storage device Ronald Karr 2024-04-02 $36,199,000
11947795 Power loss protection based on write requirements Andrew R. Bernat, Brandon Davis, Zoltan DeWitt, Benjamin Scholbrock, Phillip Hord +1 more 2024-04-02 $36,199,000
11841984 Encrypting data with a unique key John Colgrove, Ethan Miller, Naveen Neelakantam, Marco Sanvido, Neil A. Vachharajani +1 more 2023-12-12 $34,149,000
11704066 Heterogeneous erase blocks Eric D. Seppanen, Andrew R. Bernat, Timothy W. Brennan, Neil Vachharajani 2023-07-18 $8,655,000
11662909 Metadata management in a storage system Marco Sanvido, Richard Hankins, Neil Vachharajani 2023-05-30 $25,303,000
11663097 Mirroring data to survive storage device failures Neil Vachharajani, Farhan Abrol 2023-05-30 $25,303,000
11609718 Identifying valid data after a storage system recovery Ronald Karr, Constantine P. Sapuntzakis, Farhan Abrol, Neil Vachharajani, Timothy W. Brennan 2023-03-21 $59,886,000
11604585 Data rebuild when changing erase block sizes during drive replacement Andrew R. Bernat, Timothy W. Brennan, Neil Vachharajani 2023-03-14 $8,599,000
11416144 Dynamic use of segment or zone power loss protection in a flash device Andrew R. Bernat, Brandon Davis, Zoltan DeWitt, Benjamin Scholbrock, Phillip Hord +1 more 2022-08-16 $9,986,000
11263096 Preserving tolerance to storage device failures in a storage system Neil Vachharajani, Farhan Abrol 2022-03-01 $27,839,000
11169817 Optimizing a boot sequence in a storage system Marco Sanvido, Richard Hankins, Huihui Cheng, Nidhi Pankaj Doshi, Naveen Neelakantam +1 more 2021-11-09 $18,087,000
11086532 Data rebuild with changing erase block sizes Andrew R. Bernat, Timothy W. Brennan, Neil Vachharajani 2021-08-10 $10,233,000
11074016 Using flash storage devices with different sized erase blocks Eric D. Seppanen, Andrew R. Bernat, Timothy W. Brennan, Neil Vachharajani 2021-07-27 $25,105,000
10884919 Memory management in a storage system Andrew R. Bernat, Timothy W. Brennan, Neil Vachharajani 2021-01-05 $11,623,000
10838834 Managing read and write requests targeting a failed storage region in a storage system Marco Sanvido, Richard Hankins, Naveen Neelakantam, Xiaohui Wang, Taher Vohra 2020-11-17 $8,236,000
10817392 Ensuring resiliency to storage device failures in a storage system that includes a plurality of storage devices Neil Vachharajani, Farhan Abrol 2020-10-27 $17,634,000
10789020 Recovering data within a unified storage element Ronald Karr, Constantine P. Sapuntzakis, Farhan Abrol, Neil Vachharajani, Timothy W. Brennan 2020-09-29 $15,605,000
10756759 Column domain dictionary compression Tirthankar Lahiri, Chi-Kim Hoang, Dina Thomas, Kirk Edson, Subhradyuti Sarkar +2 more 2020-08-25 $89,701,000
10671494 Consistent selection of replicated datasets during storage system recovery Farhan Abrol, Neil Vachharajani 2020-06-02 $4,505,000