Inventor · San Jose, CA, US

David Thompson

42Patents
18h-index
39Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: Aug 10, 1989 → Nov 11, 2021

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6488673B1 Method of increasing gas exchange of a lung Human Necessities 438 Expired
US6692494B1 Methods and devices for creating collateral channels in the lungs Human Necessities 282 Expired
US6749606B2 Devices for creating collateral channels Human Necessities 276 Expired
US7556624B2 Method of increasing gas exchange of a lung Human Necessities 262 Expired
US7022088B2 Devices for applying energy to tissue Human Necessities 230 Expired
US6156049A Method and apparatus for transurethral resection of the prostate Human Necessities 220 Expired
US6024751A Method and apparatus for transurethral resection of the prostate Human Necessities 187 Expired
US8213336B2 Distributed data center access switch Electricity 120 Active
US7422563B2 Multifunctional tip catheter for applying energy to tissue and detecting the presence of blood flow Human Necessities 86 Expired
US6895461B1 Method and apparatus for accessing remote storage using SCSI and an IP network Electricity 74 Expired
US7393330B2 Electrosurgical device having hollow tissue cutting member and transducer assembly Human Necessities 64 Expired
US8639783B1 Policy based configuration of interfaces in a virtual machine environment Electricity 43 Active
US7188194B1 Session-based target/LUN mapping for a storage area network and associated method Electricity 42 Expired
US7165258B1 SCSI-based storage area network having a SCSI router that routes traffic between SCSI and IP networks Electricity 41 Expired
US7281062B1 Virtual SCSI bus for SCSI-based storage area network Physics 29 Expired
US8156230B2 Offload stack for network, block and file input and output Physics 23 Active
US7086983B2 Differential with pinion bearings supported on input yoke Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 22 Expired
US6540634B2 Wheel differential shift mechanism Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating 21 Expired
US6719661B2 Differential with pinion bearings supported on input yoke Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating 18 Expired
US8127412B2 Network context triggers for activating virtualized computer applications Electricity 15 Active
US7437477B2 SCSI-based storage area network having a SCSI router that routes traffic between SCSI and IP networks Electricity 14 Active
US10083062B2 Data suppression for faster migration Physics 12 Active
US7451208B1 Systems and methods for network address failover Electricity 12 Expired
US4932923A Sealed bearing arrangement for universal joint Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating 11 Expired
US7831736B1 System and method for supporting VLANs in an iSCSI Electricity 11 Expired

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