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David G. Beal — 15 Patents

STStorage Technology: 8 patents #47 of 682Top 7%
IBM: 6 patents #16,491 of 70,183Top 25%
The Boeing: 1 patents #8,630 of 15,756Top 55%
Kent, WA: #50 of 929 inventorsTop 6%
Washington: #6,706 of 76,902 inventorsTop 9%
Overall (All Time): #307,048 of 4,157,543Top 8%
15 Patents All Time
David G. Beal has been granted 15 US patents while listed as an inventor at Storage Technology. The first was granted in 1990 and the most recent in February 2008. David G. Beal ranks #307,048 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 7.4%). Patent records list David G. Beal in Kent, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1990 to 2008Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2000.peak 21990: 1 patents19901992: 1 patents1995: 1 patents19951996: 1 patents1997: 1 patents19972000: 2 patents2001: 2 patents20012002: 2 patents2003: 1 patents20032005: 1 patents2006: 1 patents20062008: 1 patents2008

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–15 of 15 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7337286 Storage control system for restoring a remote data copy Christopher J. West 2008-02-26
7082445 Fast data copy using a data copy track table 2006-07-25 $9,389,000
6912629 System and method for restoring data from secondary volume to primary volume in a data storage system Christopher J. West 2005-06-28 $9,810,000
6535967 Method and apparatus for transferring data between a primary storage system and a secondary storage system using a bridge volume Michael Steven Milillo, David G. Hostetter, Christopher J. West, Peter H. Tallman, Theresa Segura +1 more 2003-03-18 $9,879,000
6446175 Storing and retrieving data on tape backup system located at remote storage system site Christopher J. West 2002-09-03 $3,640,000
6442709 System and method for simulating disaster situations on peer to peer remote copy machines Scott Adam States, Christopher J. West 2002-08-27 $8,564,000
6253295 System and method for enabling pair-pair remote copy storage volumes to mirror data in another pair of storage volumes Michael Steven Milillo, Christopher J. West 2001-06-26 $22,108,000
6237008 System and method for enabling pair-pair remote copy storage volumes to mirror data in another storage volume Michael Steven Milillo, Christopher J. West 2001-05-22 $28,959,000
6088815 Automatic data recovery for a duplex pair Christopher J. West, Michael Steven Milillo 2000-07-11 $21,738,000
6073221 Synchronization of shared data stores through use of non-empty track copy procedure Michael Steven Milillo, Christopher J. West 2000-06-06 $33,361,000
5675724 Knowledge based resource management Jo Etta Hill, Fletcher L. Hill, Nancy R. Jurestovsky, Michael R. Stephens 1997-10-07 $16,334,000
5568491 Knowledge based resource management Joetta S. Chikira, Fletcher L. Hill, Nancy R. Jurestovsky, Michael R. Stephens 1996-10-22 $31,141,000
5394543 Knowledge based machine initiated maintenance system Fletcher L. Hill, Nancy R. Jurestovsky 1995-02-28 $3,575,000
5155845 Data storage system for providing redundant copies of data on different disk drives Fred C. Eifert, Henry S. Ludlam, Charles A. Milligan, George A. Rudeseal, Paul R. Swiatek 1992-10-13 $4,400,000
4897928 Hole angularity gauge David C. Maxville, Kenneth R. Meade, Sr. 1990-02-06 $14,253,000