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Timothy C. Ostwald — 95 Patents

STStorage Technology: 70 patents #1 of 682Top 1%
Oracle: 24 patents #337 of 14,854Top 3%
Boulder, CO: #14 of 5,018 inventorsTop 1%
Colorado: #99 of 40,980 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #16,077 of 4,157,543Top 1%
95 Patents All Time
Timothy C. Ostwald has been granted 95 US patents while listed as an inventor at Storage Technology. The first was granted in 1989 and the most recent in July 2019. Timothy C. Ostwald ranks #16,077 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.39%). Patent records list Timothy C. Ostwald in Boulder, CO, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1989 to 2019Bar chart with a peak of 16 patents in 2004.peak 161989: 1 patents19891993: 1 patents1994: 1 patents1995: 3 patents19951999: 1 patents2000: 5 patents2001: 4 patents20012002: 10 patents2003: 13 patents2004: 16 patents20042005: 5 patents2006: 5 patents2007: 6 patents20072011: 1 patents2012: 2 patents2013: 1 patents20132014: 8 patents2015: 3 patents2016: 3 patents20162017: 3 patents2018: 1 patents2019: 2 patents2019

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 95 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10335942 Simultaneous pivoting and translation of robot arm of storage library Joseph Paul Manes, Daniel James Plutt 2019-07-02 $27,739,000
10239203 Movable closed-chain linkage for robot arm of media element storage library 2019-03-26 $58,222,000
10029365 Movable closed-chain linkage for robot arm of media element storage library 2018-07-24 $82,014,000
9821958 System for simultaneous pivoting and translation of robot arm of storage library Joseph Paul Manes, Daniel James Plutt 2017-11-21 $55,989,000
9799366 Management of robotics assembly and cartridge access port of media element storage library Joseph Paul Manes, Daniel James Plutt 2017-10-24 $87,832,000
9715894 Vertical pass-through for a data storage library Joseph Paul Manes 2017-07-25 $62,295,000
9400969 Target decoding and robot positioning in a storage library Terry Lane 2016-07-26 $49,664,000
9324347 Apparatus and method for controlling tape movement in a rotary head data storage system and retrieval system Carl T. Madison, Jr. 2016-04-26 $37,582,000
9269391 Management of robotics assembly and cartridge access port of media element storage library Joseph Paul Manes, Daniel James Plutt 2016-02-23 $36,141,000
9183875 Module self-discovery in a storage library James Ries, Terry Lane 2015-11-10 $25,528,000
9013828 Bulk load cartridge access port for data storage library Joseph Paul Manes, Daniel James Plutt 2015-04-21 $39,354,000
9001457 Horizontal pass-through for a data storage library Joseph Paul Manes 2015-04-07 $64,703,000
8897113 Rotary head data storage and retrieval system and method for data verification Carl T. Madison, Jr. 2014-11-25 $39,201,000
8890458 Selectively biased robot mechanism platform for a storage library Joseph Paul Manes, Daniel James Plutt 2014-11-18 $30,759,000
8869180 Rotary head multi-layer data storage and retrieval system and method Carl T. Madison, Jr. 2014-10-21 $27,234,000
8869179 Rotary head data storage and retrieval system and method Carl T. Madison, Jr. 2014-10-21 $27,234,000
8855808 Storage magazine with integrated targeting Matthew David Woodbury, Daniel James Plutt 2014-10-07 $31,512,000
8800858 Tandem spot scanning for a storage library Daniel James Plutt, Joseph Paul Manes 2014-08-12 $29,063,000
8793713 Rotary head data storage and retrieval system and method with tape medium having transverse primary data tracks and longitudinal secondary data track Carl T. Madison, Jr. 2014-07-29 $51,035,000
8780682 Rotary head data storage and retrieval system and method for data erasure Carl T. Madison, Jr. 2014-07-15 $36,477,000
8528952 Gripper assembly for data storage system Daniel James Plutt 2013-09-10 $33,555,000
8225339 Rotary head data storage and retrieval system and method Carl T. Madison, Jr. 2012-07-17 $31,820,000
8134799 Gripper assembly for data storage system Daniel James Plutt 2012-03-13 $48,958,000
8035972 Method and apparatus for liquid cooling computer equipment Daniel James Plutt, Joseph Paul Manes 2011-10-11 $27,978,000
7273344 Library service port Daniel James Plutt 2007-09-25