G06F 2212/261
Storage comprising a plurality of storage devices
G06F2212/261 (Storage comprising a plurality of storage devices) appears on 898 US grants and 881 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 898
- Published applications
- 881
- Assignees
- 160
- Inventors
- 1,489
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2002 | 0 | 8 |
| 2003 | 3 | 5 |
| 2004 | 7 | 6 |
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| 2006 | 8 | 9 |
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| 2008 | 8 | 20 |
| 2009 | 7 | 7 |
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| 2011 | 10 | 18 |
| 2012 | 13 | 32 |
| 2013 | 26 | 21 |
| 2014 | 28 | 34 |
| 2015 | 50 | 51 |
| 2016 | 57 | 40 |
| 2017 | 48 | 61 |
| 2018 | 68 | 61 |
| 2019 | 68 | 73 |
| 2020 | 96 | 88 |
| 2021 | 82 | 60 |
| 2022 | 80 | 60 |
| 2023 | 79 | 71 |
| 2024 | 51 | 43 |
| 2025 | 57 | 44 |
| 2026 | 20 | 21 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Optimized metadata prediction6 Oct 2026US 12,754,833 B1Dell Products L. P.
- Volume duplication using logical identifiers22 Sep 2026US 12,743,225 B2Everpure, Inc.
- Consistent file system semantics with cloud object storage28 Jul 2026US 12,693,995 B2Oracle International Corporation
- Management of metadata in a solid-state drive via write heat segregation9 Jun 2026US 12,650,919 B2International Business Machines Corporation
- Telemetry-capable memory sub-system9 Jun 2026US 12,650,923 B2Micron Technology, Inc.
- Securing A Storage System From An Unapproved Reset17 Sep 2026US 2026/0277463 A1Pure Storage, Inc.
- Atomic updates for a distributed system17 Sep 2026US 2026/0277660 A1Everpure, Inc.
- Operation methods, memory systems, system and readable storage media23 Jul 2026US 2026/0211665 A1Yangtze Memory Technologies Co., Ltd.
- Method and apparatus for write destage23 Jul 2026US 2026/0211811 A1Dell Products L. P.
- Presentation of direct accessed storage under a logical drive model23 Jul 2026US 2026/0211827 A1SK Hynix NAND Product Solutions Corp.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method and apparatus for optimizing the performance of a storage system325US 8,756,387 B2International Business Machines Corporation · 2014
- Safety for volume operations243US 9,436,720 B2Pure Storage, Inc. · 2016
- Method for accelerating disk array write operations using segmented cache memory and data logging194US 6,148,368 ALSI Logic Corporation · 2000
- Lockless distributed redundant storage and NVRAM caching of compressed data in a highly-distributed shared topology with direct memory access capable interconnect192US 9,529,542 B2E8 Storage Systems Ltd. · 2016
- Lockless distributed redundant storage and NVRAM cache in a highly-distributed shared topology with direct memory access capable interconnect189US 9,525,737 B2E8 Storage Systems Ltd. · 2016