Inventor · Irvine, CA, US

Curtis E. Stevens

23Patents
15h-index
16Co-inventors
78Inventor score

Filing activity: Nov 6, 1974 → Aug 10, 2011

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US8006027B1 Method of staging small writes on a large sector disk drive Physics 156 Active
US7496493B1 External memory device to provide disk device and optical functionality Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 148 Expired
US8560759B1 Hybrid drive storing redundant copies of data on disk and in non-volatile semiconductor memory based on read frequency Physics 147 Active
US7827320B1 Serial ATA device implementing intra-command processing by detecting XRDY primitive while in the XRDY state Physics 146 Active
US8285923B2 Disk drive and method using native command queuing tags to identify logical block size and implement protection information Physics 137 Active
US8626463B2 Data storage device tester Physics 135 Active
US8458526B2 Data storage device tester Physics 134 Active
US8782334B1 Hybrid drive copying disk cache to non-volatile semiconductor memory Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 116 Active
US8631284B2 Method for providing asynchronous event notification in systems Physics 75 Active
US8762682B1 Data storage apparatus providing host full duplex operations using half duplex storage devices Physics 62 Active
US6256622A Logical division of files into multiple articles for search and retrieval Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 37 Expired
US6633976B1 Method of storing BIOS modules and transferring them to memory for execution Physics 31 Expired
US6715043B1 Method and system for providing memory-based device emulation Physics 17 Expired
US6519659B1 Method and system for transferring an application program from system firmware to a storage device Physics 16 Expired
US7394244B2 Through-wall position sensor Physics 16 Expired
US4333009A Optical position transducer Electricity 10 Expired
US4680465A Multi-axis force controller Physics 10 Expired
US4132378A Control system for aircraft Physics 9 Expired
US7185189B2 Method of storing BIOS modules and transferring them to memory for execution Physics 8 Expired
US6779109B2 Systems, software and methods for allocating additional mass storage media space from free media space available in the host protected area Physics 7 Expired
US4538633A Optical-hydraulic control system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 7 Expired
US5537089A Three phase transformer with reduced harmonic currents Electricity 7 Expired
US8856390B1 Using device control field to implement non-disruptive notification of an ATA device Physics 5 Active

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.