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Robert Michael Lester — 13 Patents

STSeagate Technology: 8 patents #764 of 4,722Top 20%
WTWestern Digital Technologies: 4 patents #793 of 3,180Top 25%
HEHewlett Packard Enterprise: 1 patents #2,081 of 4,473Top 50%
Colorado Springs, CO: #235 of 2,971 inventorsTop 8%
Colorado: #3,472 of 40,980 inventorsTop 9%
Overall (All Time): #362,438 of 4,157,543Top 9%
13 Patents All Time
Robert Michael Lester has been granted 13 US patents while listed as an inventor at Seagate Technology. The first was granted in 2010 and the most recent in August 2024. Robert Michael Lester ranks #362,438 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 8.7%). Patent records list Robert Michael Lester in Colorado Springs, CO, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2010 to 2024Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2010.peak 42010: 4 patents20102011: 1 patents20112014: 1 patents20142016: 1 patents20162018: 1 patents20182019: 1 patents20192021: 2 patents20212022: 1 patents20222024: 1 patents2024

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–13 of 13 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12072844 Data reduction in a storage system Susan Agten, Matthew S. Gates, Alex Veprinsky 2024-08-27 $17,850,000
11237893 Use of error correction-based metric for identifying poorly performing data storage devices Austin Striegel, Jared Tesone, Timothy Lieber, Evan Richardson, Donald Penza 2022-02-01 $24,431,000
10969969 Use of recovery behavior for prognosticating and in-situ repair of data storage devices Timothy Lieber, Austin Striegel, Evan Richardson, Donald Penza 2021-04-06 $42,432,000
10897273 System-level error correction coding allocation based on device population data integrity sharing Bernd Lamberts, Remmelt Pit, Timothy Lieber, Zarko Popov 2021-01-19 $15,953,000
10372185 Enhanced power control of data storage arrays Todd Christopher McNally 2019-08-06 $6,822,000
10082968 Preferred zone scheduling Clark Edward Lubbers 2018-09-25 $15,926,000
9329800 Preferred zone scheduling Clark Edward Lubbers 2016-05-03 $5,277,000
8745326 Request priority seek manager Clark Edward Lubbers 2014-06-03 $12,265,000
7870335 Host adaptive seek technique environment Clark Edward Lubbers 2011-01-11 $10,962,000
7840751 Command queue management of back watered requests Clark Edward Lubbers 2010-11-23 $8,802,000
7831624 Skip list with address related table structure Clark Edward Lubbers 2010-11-09 $9,083,000
7797487 Command queue loading Clark Edward Lubbers 2010-09-14 $5,311,000
7765437 Failure trend detection and correction in a data storage array Robert S. Gittins 2010-07-27 $55,499,000