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William N. Thanos — 12 Patents

QUQuantum: 4 patents #101 of 703Top 15%
TETeac: 3 patents #117 of 440Top 30%
QUQume: 2 patents #3 of 29Top 15%
STSandisk Technologies: 1 patents #1,816 of 2,594Top 75%
Micron: 1 patents #5,369 of 6,374Top 85%
NONortonlifelock: 1 patents #163 of 170Top 100%
Boise, ID: #718 of 3,546 inventorsTop 25%
Idaho: #1,116 of 8,810 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #396,045 of 4,157,543Top 10%
12 Patents All Time
William N. Thanos has been granted 12 US patents while listed as an inventor at Quantum. The first was granted in 1987 and the most recent in January 2025. William N. Thanos ranks #396,045 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 9.5%). Patent records list William N. Thanos in Boise, ID, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1987 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 1 patents in 1987.peak 11987: 1 patents19871988: 1 patents1991: 1 patents19911992: 1 patents1993: 1 patents19931994: 1 patents1995: 1 patents19951999: 1 patents2002: 1 patents20022014: 1 patents2022: 1 patents20222025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–12 of 12 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12210466 Compute Express Link memory and storage module Jeremy Werner 2025-01-28
11528292 Systems and methods for deep packet inspection of vulnerable network devices 2022-12-13
8655463 Method for avoiding refreshing a database of metadata associated with digital media content Hyuk Il Kwon, In-Soo Yoon, Joseph Meza, David B. Jeppson 2014-02-18 $46,748,000
6385006 High capacity, low profile disk drive system Steven Kaczeus, James D. Fahey 2002-05-07
5886850 High capacity, low profile disk drive system Steven Kaczeus, James D. Fahey 1999-03-23
5446609 Low profile disk drive assembly Steven Kaczeus, James D. Fahey 1995-08-29
5280603 Servo pause for disk drive embedded multi-tasked controller David B. Jeppson, Norman H. Wulferdinger, Bryan J. Mee, Joseph Cheng-Tsu Liu 1994-01-18 $8,540,000
5227930 Head position recalibration for disk drive Misha I. Rozenberg, Tom Lik-Chung Lee, Thomas R. Stone 1993-07-13 $2,401,000
5084791 Head position control system for fixed drive including position encoder, temperature sensor and embedded fine servo information Bruce R. Peterson, William G. Moon, Joshua Lindsay, Thomas R. Stone 1992-01-28 $7,713,000
5005089 High performance, high capacity micro-winchester disk drive Bruce R. Peterson, William G. Moon, Joshua Lindsay, Thomas R. Stone 1991-04-02 $8,588,000
4721895 Multi-speed analog servo Kenneth W. Cocksedge 1988-01-26 $914,000
4653946 Adaptive electronic control system for formed character printer 1987-03-31