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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025
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Odie Killen — 19 Patents

STSeagate Technology: 9 patents #649 of 4,722Top 15%
SASanmina: 6 patents #9 of 75Top 15%
JAJabil: 2 patents #116 of 266Top 45%
ELEurologic Systems Limited: 1 patents #5 of 11Top 50%
XLXyratex Technology Limited: 1 patents #55 of 126Top 45%
Colorado Springs, CO: #139 of 2,971 inventorsTop 5%
Colorado: #2,106 of 40,980 inventorsTop 6%
Overall (All Time): #229,345 of 4,157,543Top 6%
19 Patents All Time
Odie Killen has been granted 19 US patents while listed as an inventor at Seagate Technology. The first was granted in 2005 and the most recent in July 2025. Odie Killen ranks #229,345 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.5%). Patent records list Odie Killen in Colorado Springs, CO, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2005 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2024.peak 42005: 1 patents20052011: 1 patents20112013: 1 patents20132017: 3 patents20172018: 3 patents20182020: 2 patents20202021: 1 patents20212022: 1 patents20222024: 4 patents20242025: 2 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–19 of 19 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12352278 Data storage housing with a set of hard drives and fan devices Bradley S. Holway, Matthew J. Babcock 2025-07-08
12256515 Cable management perch for use with rack rail-mounted chassis John A. Bauer 2025-03-18
12137541 Enhanced fan integration in data storage systems John A. Bauer, Daniel Joseph Gregory, Charles C. Hill, Xin Wang, Kenneth D. Van Antwerp, Jr. 2024-11-05 $43,432,000
12132670 Dis-aggregated switching and protocol configurable input/output module Charles C. Hill, Ritesh Kumar 2024-10-29 $37,807,000
11925004 Data storage cooling module Matthew J. Babcock, Brendan Ruggles 2024-03-05 $16,988,000
11867201 Acoustic attenuation device Bradley S. Holway, Matthew J. Babcock 2024-01-09 $18,662,000
11467997 Hot-swappable protocol expander module for storage array David Dick Anderson, John Davis Schnabel 2022-10-11 $15,785,000
11019748 Suspended fan modules Vivekananda Avvaru, Shankar Gopalakrishna, Saju Cheeran Verghese Francis 2021-05-25 $9,956,000
10692541 Carrierless drive insertion, retention and removal system Kevin Lee Van Pelt, Charlie Morris 2020-06-23 $8,469,000
10622025 Carrierless storage chassis Shankar Gopalakrishna, Saju Cheeran Verghese Francis, Anil Koyad Choyikkunnil 2020-04-14 $13,695,000
10037782 Storage array enclosure having sidewall step for use with expansion module David Dick Anderson, Kevin Lee Van Pelt, David Michael Davis 2018-07-31 $14,973,000
10025357 Enclosure system for computing equipment David Michael Davis, Alexander C. Worrall 2018-07-17 $8,635,000
10026454 Storage system with cross flow cooling of power supply unit David Michael Davis 2018-07-17 $8,635,000
9826657 Storage enclosure carrier which supports multiple storage devices Paul K. Foisy, Robert I. Walker, Alexander C. Worrall, David Michael Davis 2017-11-21 $10,581,000
9779006 Non-volatile fault indication in a storage enclosure David Michael Davis, Alexander C. Worrall 2017-10-03
9607660 Carrier used for mounting data storage drive into enclosure Richard E. Bennett 2017-03-28 $11,317,000
8508928 Incorporation of multiple, 2.5-inch or smaller hard disk drives into a single drive carrier with a single midplane or baseboard connector Paul K. Foisy, Robert I. Walker 2013-08-13 $27,263,000
7983032 Incorporation of two or more hard disk drives into a single drive carrier with a single midplane connector Robert I. Walker, Paul K. Foisy 2011-07-19 $34,713,000
6975590 Fiber-channel arbitrated-loop split loop operation Timothy Lieber, Reuben Martinez 2005-12-13