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Nicholas York — 10 Patents

VIVirtual Instruments: 6 patents #1 of 22Top 5%
VWVirtual Instruments Worldwide: 4 patents #6 of 25Top 25%
San Ramon, CA: #440 of 2,140 inventorsTop 25%
California: #61,378 of 386,348 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #481,000 of 4,157,543Top 15%
10 Patents All Time
Nicholas York has been granted 10 US patents while listed as an inventor at Virtual Instruments. The first was granted in 2017 and the most recent in July 2025. Nicholas York ranks #481,000 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 11.6%). Patent records list Nicholas York in San Ramon, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2017 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2020.peak 32017: 1 patents20172018: 2 patents20182020: 3 patents20202022: 2 patents20222025: 2 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–10 of 10 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
12367060 System and method of flow source discovery Rosanna Lee, Vishal Neema, Xiaohong Pan 2025-07-22
12340249 Methods and system for throttling analytics processing Zhipeng Gong, Xiongwei He, Francis Niestemski, Devin Blinn Avery, Ryan E. Perkowski 2025-06-24
11481242 System and method of flow source discovery Rosanna Lee, Vishal Neema, Xiaohong Pan 2022-10-25
11223534 Systems and methods for hub and spoke cross topology traversal Devin Blinn Avery, Francis Niestemski, Ryan E. Perkowski, Leo Szumel, Dale Coldiron 2022-01-11
10877792 Systems and methods of application-aware improvement of storage network traffic Francis Niestemski, Ryan E. Perkowski 2020-12-29
10831526 System and method of application discovery Arpit Malhotra, Susanta Pattanayak 2020-11-10
10768970 System and method of flow source discovery Rosanna Lee, Vishal Neema, Xiaohong Pan 2020-09-08
10103956 Virtual machine processor and memory resource coordinator Francis Niestemski 2018-10-16
9882841 Validating workload distribution in a storage area network Ana Bertran Ortiz, Genti Cuni 2018-01-30
9699032 Storage area network queue depth profiler Francis Niestemski 2017-07-04