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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025
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John T. O'Brien — 36 Patents

STStorage Technology: 12 patents #28 of 682Top 5%
PPPhillips Petroleum: 4 patents #668 of 2,506Top 30%
TSThe Sherwin-Williams: 4 patents #67 of 458Top 15%
Oracle: 4 patents #3,163 of 14,854Top 25%
IBM: 2 patents #32,909 of 70,183Top 50%
SISouthwest Research Institute: 1 patents #454 of 935Top 50%
SCStorage Computer: 1 patents #2 of 6Top 35%
Bartlesville, OK: #42 of 1,143 inventorsTop 4%
Oklahoma: #155 of 12,736 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #92,222 of 4,157,543Top 3%
36 Patents All Time
John T. O'Brien has been granted 36 US patents while listed as an inventor at Storage Technology. The first was granted in 1981 and the most recent in December 2025. John T. O'Brien ranks #92,222 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.2%). Patent records list John T. O'Brien in Bartlesville, OK, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1981 to 2022Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2006.peak 41981: 1 patents19811982: 1 patents1985: 2 patents1986: 1 patents19861990: 2 patents1991: 2 patents1992: 2 patents19921993: 2 patents1995: 3 patents1999: 1 patents19992000: 2 patents2001: 1 patents2004: 1 patents20042006: 4 patents2008: 3 patents2011: 1 patents20112013: 1 patents2015: 1 patents2020: 1 patents20202021: 1 patents2022: 1 patents2022

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 36 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12510333 Single wire hit detection apparatus Kevin Kaplansky, Gregory Gregoriades, Greg Sisk 2025-12-30
12455250 Object detection and characterization using dual energy backscatter technique Wesley C. Pirkle, Richard J. Davis 2025-10-28
11225789 Structural module with vertical ties 2022-01-18
11085181 Structural module tie 2021-08-10
10558683 Selection of a start time for a periodic operation Yinglei Wang 2020-02-11 $43,466,000
9164689 Data storage system and method of processing a data access request Michael Steven Milillo, George Franklin DeTar, Jr., Carl T. Madison, Jr. 2015-10-20 $55,181,000
8364923 Data storage system manager and method for managing a data storage system Michael Steven Milillo, Carl T. Madison, Jr. 2013-01-29 $65,084,000
8032686 Protocol translation in a data storage system George Franklin DeTar, Jr. 2011-10-04 $26,315,000
7445373 Method for mixing a fluid dispersion disposed in a container having either a cylindrical or square shape Dwight R. Huckby, James E. MacDonald 2008-11-04 $59,255,000
7325968 Structure for holding either a cylindrical or square shaped container during a mixing operation Dwight R. Huckby, James E. MacDonald 2008-02-05 $21,349,000
7322334 Apparatus and method for starting a chain saw 2008-01-29
7130983 System and method for reference count regeneration George Franklin DeTar, Jr. 2006-10-31
7096341 System and method for reference count regeneration George Franklin DeTar, Jr. 2006-08-22
7077560 Structure for holding either a cylindrical or square shaped container during a mixing operation Dwight R. Huckby, James E. MacDonald 2006-07-18 $43,378,000
7080133 Method and system for configuring a computer network Scott Jerald Burton, Richard Curtis Cleavinger, Nelson W. Gildenmeister, John Houkal, Kevin Kidney +1 more 2006-07-18 $4,124,000
6817751 Apparatus and method for mixing a fluid dispersion disposed in a container having either a cylindrical or a square shape Dwight R. Huckby, James E. MacDonald 2004-11-16 $22,421,000
6260115 Sequential detection and prestaging methods for a disk storage subsystem Alan R. Permut, Keith Radebaugh, Hendrikus Everhardus Vandenbergh 2001-07-10 $9,986,000
6141771 Method and system for providing a trusted machine state David G. Hostetter 2000-10-31 $31,312,000
6038639 Data file storage management system for snapshot copy operations Jay S. Belsan, Michael Steven Milillo 2000-03-14 $6,420,000
5893919 Apparatus and method for storing data with selectable data protection using mirroring and selectable parity inhibition Andras Sarkozy, Gregory Flynn 1999-04-13 $553,000
5410667 Data record copy system for a disk drive array data storage subsystem Jay S. Belsan, Charles A. Milligan, George A. Rudeseal 1995-04-25 $6,188,000
5396620 Method for writing specific values last into data storage groups containing redundancy Mitchell E. Burghart 1995-03-07 $10,027,000
5379391 Method and apparatus to access data records in a cache memory by multiple virtual addresses Jay S. Belsan 1995-01-03 $13,117,000
5247638 Apparatus for compressing data in a dynamically mapped virtual data storage subsystem George A. Rudeseal, Charles A. Milligan, Craig A. Buhlman 1993-09-21 $8,768,000
D337885 Combined key chain and coin holder 1993-08-03