Charles E. Nichols
25Patents
12h-index
34Co-inventors
81Inventor score
Filing activity: Oct 9, 1975 → Apr 26, 2017
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US4642837A | Broom having interlocking components | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 62 | Expired |
| US6816950B2 | Method and apparatus for upgrading disk drive firmware in a RAID storage system | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 48 | Expired |
| US7904647B2 | System for optimizing the performance and reliability of a storage controller cache offload circuit | Physics | 40 | Active |
| US6959413B2 | Method of handling unreadable blocks during rebuilding of a RAID device | Physics | 39 | Expired |
| US5083729A | Storage system for holding athletic equipment and a method | Human Necessities | 31 | Expired |
| US7562176B2 | Apparatus and methods for clustering multiple independent PCI express hierarchies | Physics | 29 | Active |
| US5063638A | Hinge assembly | Fixed Constructions | 25 | Expired |
| US6944791B2 | Method of handling unreadable blocks during write of a RAID device | Physics | 24 | Expired |
| US4302862A | Snow removal tool | Performing Operations; Transporting | 23 | Expired |
| US6889294B1 | Virtual shared volume via proxy data transfer | Physics | 22 | Expired |
| US6655071B2 | Waterfowl decoy mounting device | Human Necessities | 18 | Expired |
| US7418550B2 | Methods and structure for improved import/export of raid level 6 volumes | Physics | 13 | Expired |
| USD282112S | Broom shroud | General | 11 | Expired |
| US6859890B2 | Method for reducing data/parity inconsistencies due to a storage controller failure | Physics | 9 | Expired |
| US7584368B2 | Apparatus and methods for power management and spin-up in a storage system | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 7 | Active |
| US8776060B2 | Methods and structure for near-live reprogramming of firmware in storage systems using a hypervisor | Physics | 5 | Active |
| USD244524S | Vacuum cleaner-blower | General | 5 | Expired |
| US4538318A | Push broom assembly | Human Necessities | 4 | Expired |
| US6705050B2 | Flashing device | Fixed Constructions | 3 | Expired |
| US7171518B2 | Data storage system recovery from disk failure during system off-line condition | Physics | 2 | Expired |
| US8015439B2 | Method for handling more than a maximum number of supported drives in a raid configuration | Physics | 2 | Active |
| US7085910B2 | Memory window manager for control structure access | Physics | 2 | Expired |
| USD271635S | Broom shroud | General | 1 | Expired |
| US10826848B2 | Balanced, opportunistic multicore I/O scheduling from non-SMP applications | Physics | 0 | Active |
| US7430635B2 | Methods and structure for improved import/export of RAID level 6 volumes | Physics | 0 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.