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Daniel L. Helmick — 72 Patents

WTWestern Digital Technologies: 46 patents #24 of 3,180Top 1%
Samsung: 17 patents #8,050 of 75,807Top 15%
STSandisk Technologies: 7 patents #567 of 2,594Top 25%
Toyota: 2 patents #11,016 of 26,838Top 45%
Broomfield, CO: #8 of 1,198 inventorsTop 1%
Colorado: #178 of 40,980 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #27,714 of 4,157,543Top 1%
72 Patents All Time
Daniel L. Helmick has been granted 72 US patents while listed as an inventor at Western Digital Technologies. The first was granted in 2014 and the most recent in December 2025. Daniel L. Helmick ranks #27,714 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.67%). Patent records list Daniel L. Helmick in Broomfield, CO, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2014 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 15 patents in 2021.peak 152014: 2 patents20142018: 1 patents20182019: 2 patents20192020: 9 patents20202021: 15 patents20212022: 13 patents20222023: 11 patents20232024: 9 patents20242025: 10 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 72 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12499040 Solving submission queue entry overflow with an additional out-of-order submission queue entry Chia-Hsing WU, Sumanth Jannyavula Venkata, Fnu Vikram Singh, Judith Rose Brock, William Martin +2 more 2025-12-16
12474854 Systems, methods, and apparatus for copy destination atomicity in devices Rajesh Koul, Robert L. Moss, Sumanth Jannyavula Venkata, Young Min Kim 2025-11-18
12461683 Systems, methods, and devices for reclaim unit formation and selection in a storage device Chia-Hsing WU 2025-11-04
12455833 Systems and methods for address translation Sumanth Jannyavula Venkata 2025-10-28
12452222 Systems, methods, and apparatus for protection for device data transfers Jin Ra KIM, Sang-young Ye, Eric Hibbard 2025-10-21
12386516 Systems and methods host and device cooperation for managing a memory of the device Marc Timothy Jones 2025-08-12
12386555 Systems, methods, and devices for queue entry monitoring Vipin Kumar Agrawal, Chun-Chu Chen-Jhy Archie Wu 2025-08-12
12353747 Prepopulating commands at a storage device for accelerated host-issued live migration of storage data Chun-Chu Chen-Jhy Archie Wu 2025-07-08
12293077 Systems, methods, and devices for using a reclaim unit based on a reference update in a storage device 2025-05-06
12293094 Systems and methods for storage device resource management 2025-05-06
12182436 Communicating information for performing a live migration using recursive large-to-small-granularity querying Vipin Kumar Agrawal 2024-12-31
12131529 Virtual teach and repeat mobile manipulation system Jeremy Ma, Josh Petersen, Umashankar Nagarajan, Michael Laskey, James W. Borders +3 more 2024-10-29 $1,293,000
12117944 Systems, methods, and devices for queue management with a coherent interface 2024-10-15
12112072 Method and memory device for atomic processing of fused commands Chun-Chu Chen-Jhy Archie Wu, Fnu Vikram Singh, Syed Kaiser, Vasili ZHDANKIN, Yong Yang 2024-10-08
12079504 Data integrity protection of SSDs utilizing streams Peter Grayson 2024-09-03
12079487 Zoned namespaces in solid-state drives Matias Bjorling, Horst-Christoph Georg HELLWIG, David Landsman, Liam Michael Parker, Alan David Bennett +2 more 2024-09-03
12050497 Systems and methods for power relaxation on startup 2024-07-30
12032483 Systems and methods for pre-populating address translation cache Vipin Kumar Agrawal 2024-07-09
11875046 Systems and methods for storage device resource management 2024-01-16
11853571 Storage devices hiding parity swapping behavior Sergey Anatolievich Gorobets, Peter Grayson 2023-12-26 $6,328,000
11847337 Data parking for ZNS devices Peter Grayson, Liam Michael Parker, Sergey Anatolievich Gorobets 2023-12-19 $23,359,000
11762587 Method and memory device for atomic processing of fused commands Chun-Chu Chen-Jhy Archie Wu, Fnu Vikram Singh, Syed Kaiser, Vasili ZHDANKIN, Yong Yang 2023-09-19
11726679 Applying endurance groups to zoned namespaces Horst-Christoph Georg HELLWIG, Liam Michael Parker, Ryan R. Jones, Matias Bjorling 2023-08-15 $13,565,000
11714750 Data storage method and system with persistent memory and non-volatile memory Richard S. Lucky, Stephen Gold, Ryan R. Jones 2023-08-01 $24,241,000
11656984 Keeping zones open with intermediate padding Alan David Bennett, Liam Michael Parker 2023-05-23 $4,895,000