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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025
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Scott Smith — 17 Patents

PSPure Storage: 13 patents #94 of 486Top 20%
JPMorgan Chase: 2 patents #1,331 of 3,779Top 40%
TITexas Instruments: 1 patents #7,388 of 12,488Top 60%
San Mateo, CA: #381 of 3,727 inventorsTop 15%
California: #35,467 of 386,348 inventorsTop 10%
Overall (All Time): #263,971 of 4,157,543Top 7%
17 Patents All Time
Scott Smith has been granted 17 US patents while listed as an inventor at Pure Storage. The first was granted in 1991 and the most recent in February 2025. Scott Smith ranks #263,971 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 6.3%). Patent records list Scott Smith in San Mateo, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1991 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2019.peak 41991: 1 patents19912008: 1 patents2017: 3 patents20172018: 1 patents2019: 4 patents20192020: 1 patents2021: 1 patents20212022: 2 patents2023: 1 patents20232024: 1 patents2025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–17 of 17 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12223183 Combining memory aligned operations Christopher Golden, Luke Paulsen, David Grunwald, Jianting Cao 2025-02-11
11995315 Converting data formats in a storage system David Grunwald, Christopher Golden, Jianting Cao, Qi Zhou, Wentian Cui 2024-05-28 $55,725,000
11836357 Memory aligned copy operation execution Christopher Golden, Luke Paulsen, David Grunwald, Jianting Cao 2023-12-05 $11,337,000
11422714 Efficient copying of data in a storage system Christopher Golden, Luke Paulsen, David Grunwald, Jianting Cao 2022-08-23 $14,452,000
11340785 Upgrading data in a storage system using background processes Jianting Cao, Wentian Cui, Christopher Golden, David Grunwald, Qi Zhou 2022-05-24 $5,838,000
10956054 Efficient performance of copy operations in a storage system Jianting Cao, Christopher Golden, David Grunwald, Luke Paulsen 2021-03-23 $21,141,000
10768815 Upgrading a storage system Jianting Cao, Wentian Cui, Christopher Golden, David Grunwald, Qi Zhou 2020-09-08 $8,783,000
10482061 Removing invalid data from a dataset in advance of copying the dataset Christopher Golden, Neil Vachharajani, David Grunwald, Jianting Cao, Luke Paulsen +1 more 2019-11-19 $7,173,000
10474363 Space reporting in a storage system Wentian Cui, MATTHEW FAY, Marina Galata, Richard Hankins, Ganesh Ramanarayanan +3 more 2019-11-12 $12,748,000
10289704 Method and system for implementing categorically organized relationship effects Burton Warren Andrews, Mary Elizabeth Cain, Mark Pleasnick, Art Weston 2019-05-14 $211,229,000
10268403 Combining multiple copy operations into a single copy operation Jianting Cao, Christopher Golden, David Grunwald, Luke Paulsen 2019-04-23 $23,855,000
9959043 Performing a non-disruptive upgrade of data in a storage system Jianting Cao, Wentian Cui, Christopher Golden, David Grunwald, Qi Zhou 2018-05-01 $16,477,000
9773007 Performance improvements in a storage system Christopher Golden, Neil Vachharajani, David Grunwald, Jianting Cao, Luke Paulsen +1 more 2017-09-26 $15,532,000
9740414 Optimizing copy operations Jianting Cao, Christopher Golden, David Grunwald, Luke Paulsen 2017-08-22 $5,529,000
9720939 Method and system for implementing categorically organized relationship effects Burton Warren Andrews, Mary Elizabeth Cain, Mark Pleasnick, Art Weston 2017-08-01 $376,473,000
7337433 System and method for power profiling of tasks Robert J. Cyran, Edward A. Anderson, Scott Gary, Vijaya B. P. Sarathy 2008-02-26 $19,221,000
5001624 Processor controlled DMA controller for transferring instruction and data from memory to coprocessor Harrell Hoffman, John Voltin, Charles Wright 1991-03-19