Inventor · Fort Collins, CO, US

Patrick R. Bashford

14Patents
9h-index
16Co-inventors
65Inventor score

Filing activity: Sep 1, 1994 → Jan 18, 2012

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7254732B2 Method and apparatus of automatic power management control for serial ATA device directly attached to SAS/SATA host controller Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 37 Expired
US6629179B1 Message signaled interrupt generating device and method Physics 36 Expired
US6636927B1 Bridge device for transferring data using master-specific prefetch sizes Physics 30 Expired
US6529989B1 Intelligent expansion ROM sharing bus subsystem Physics 24 Expired
US7010711B2 Method and apparatus of automatic power management control for native command queuing Serial ATA device Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 22 Expired
US7330989B2 Method and apparatus of automatic power management control for Serial ATA interface utilizing a combination of IOP control and specialized hardware control Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 18 Expired
US6480817B1 Integrated circuit I/O pad cell modeling Physics 12 Expired
US7676613B2 Methods and structure for assuring correct data order in SATA transmissions over a SAS wide port Physics 10 Active
US7529877B2 Apparatus and methods for simplified SSP link layer processing Physics 9 Expired
US7296094B2 Circuit and method to provide configuration of serial ATA queue depth versus number of devices Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 8 Expired
US8645590B2 Application of alternate align primitives during SAS rate matching to improve continuous adaptation Physics 1 Active
US7370139B2 Methods and structures for efficient storage of task file information in serial ATA environments Physics 1 Expired
US7996206B2 Serial attached small computer system interface (SAS) connection emulation for direct attached serial advanced technology attachment (SATA) Physics 0 Active
US8751718B2 Apparatus and methods for a simplified, multi-client SAS port for management of other devices in an enhanced SAS device Physics 0 Expired

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