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Samuel Merritt — 8 Patents

SWSwiftstack: 4 patents #1 of 7Top 15%
Intel: 3 patents #10,444 of 30,777Top 35%
NVIDIA: 1 patents #4,387 of 7,811Top 60%
Hayward, CA: #189 of 1,120 inventorsTop 20%
California: #74,834 of 386,348 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #600,572 of 4,157,543Top 15%
8 Patents All Time
Samuel Merritt has been granted 8 US patents while listed as an inventor at Swiftstack. The first was granted in 2017 and the most recent in January 2023. Samuel Merritt ranks #600,572 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 14.4%). Patent records list Samuel Merritt in Hayward, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2017 to 2023Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2017.peak 32017: 3 patents20172018: 1 patents20182020: 1 patents20202021: 2 patents20212023: 1 patents2023

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–8 of 8 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11567833 Methods and apparatus to assign indices and relocate object fragments in distributed storage systems Paul Luse, John A. Dickinson, Clay Gerrard 2023-01-31 $11,941,000
11182248 Methods and apparatus to assign indices and relocate object fragments in distributed storage systems Paul Luse, John A. Dickinson, Clay Gerrard 2021-11-23 $33,627,000
10970256 Reconciler for a distributed storage system Clay Gerrard, Paul Luse, John A. Dickinson 2021-04-06 $776,022,000
10621041 Methods and apparatus to assign indices and relocate object fragments in distributed storage systems Paul Luse, John A. Dickinson, Clay Gerrard 2020-04-14 $33,667,000
10061790 Reconciler for a distributed storage system Clay Gerrard, Paul Luse, John A. Dickinson 2018-08-28
9787587 Method and apparatus for bidirectional message routing between services running on different network nodes Darrell Bishop, Joe Arnold 2017-10-10
9705873 Multi-tenant discovery and claiming of distributed storage nodes over an insecure network Darrell Bishop, Joseph Arnold 2017-07-11
9577830 Multi-tenant discovery and claiming of distributed storage nodes over an insecure network Darrell Bishop, Joseph Arnold 2017-02-21