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James M. Higgins — 43 Patents

STSandisk Technologies: 24 patents #113 of 2,224Top 6%
SSSmart Storage Systems: 7 patents #2 of 20Top 10%
WTWestern Digital Technologies: 5 patents #645 of 3,180Top 25%
NVNutech Ventures: 2 patents #53 of 313Top 20%
SISandisk Enterprise Ip: 2 patents #27 of 53Top 55%
Lincoln, NE: #11 of 1,303 inventorsTop 1%
Nebraska: #39 of 5,697 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #69,788 of 4,157,543Top 2%
43 Patents All Time

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 26–43 of 43 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
9520197 Adaptive erase of a storage device James Fitzpatrick, Li Li, Mervyn Wongso 2016-12-13
9448946 Data storage system with stale data mechanism and method of operation thereof Theron W. Virgin 2016-09-20
9431113 Data storage system with dynamic erase block grouping mechanism and method of operation thereof James Fitzpatrick, Mark Dancho, Robert W. Ellis, Bernardo Rub 2016-08-30
9361222 Electronic system with storage drive life estimation mechanism and method of operation thereof James Fitzpatrick, Mark Dancho, James M. Kresse 2016-06-07
9298608 Biasing for wear leveling in storage systems James Fitzpatrick 2016-03-29
9183137 Storage control system with data management mechanism and method of operation thereof Jacob Schmier, Mark Dancho, Ryan R. Jones, Robert W. Ellis 2015-11-10
9152555 Data management with modular erase in a data storage system Robert W. Ellis, Mark Dancho, James Fitzpatrick 2015-10-06
9146850 Data storage system with dynamic read threshold mechanism and method of operation thereof James Fitzpatrick, Mark Dancho, Robert W. Ellis 2015-09-29
9098399 Electronic system with storage management mechanism and method of operation thereof Robert W. Ellis, James Fitzpatrick 2015-08-04
9093160 Methods and systems for staggered memory operations Robert W. Ellis, Vidyabhushan Mohan 2015-07-28
9070481 Internal current measurement for age measurements Robert W. Ellis, Alexander Kwok-Tung Mak 2015-06-30
9063844 Non-volatile memory management system with time measure mechanism and method of operation thereof James Fitzpatrick, Mark Dancho 2015-06-23
9021231 Storage control system with write amplification control mechanism and method of operation thereof James Fitzpatrick, Bernardo Rub, Mark Dancho, Ryan R. Jones 2015-04-28
9021319 Non-volatile memory management system with load leveling and method of operation thereof James Fitzpatrick, Bernardo Rub, Ryan R. Jones, Robert W. Ellis 2015-04-28
8891303 Method and system for dynamic word line based configuration of a three-dimensional memory device Robert W. Ellis, Neil Richard Darragh, Aaron K. Olbrich, Navneeth Kankani, Steven T. Sprouse 2014-11-18
D598838 Aircraft design Robert Jonathan Carr 2009-08-25
7258302 Aircraft internal wing and design Robert Jonathan Carr 2007-08-21
7147183 Lift system for an aerial crane and propulsion system for a vehicle Robert Jonathan Carr 2006-12-12