Inventor · Portland, OR, US

Rick Coulson

15Patents
9h-index
12Co-inventors
69Inventor score

Filing activity: Sep 20, 1994 → May 19, 2017

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5548730A Intelligent bus bridge for input/output subsystems in a computer system Physics 154 Expired
US7941692B2 NAND power fail recovery Physics 103 Active
US7797479B2 Technique to write to a non-volatile memory Physics 24 Expired
US5761458A Intelligent bus bridge for input/output subsystems in a computer system Physics 20 Expired
US5920896A Reducing operating system start-up/boot time through disk block relocation Physics 20 Expired
US5787296A Method and apparatus for reducing power consumption by a disk drive through disk block relocation Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 20 Expired
US5890205A Optimized application installation using disk block relocation Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 17 Expired
US8316257B2 NAND power fail recovery Physics 9 Active
US6742080B1 Disk block allocation optimization methodology and application Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 9 Expired
US9727473B2 Methods to communicate a timestamp to a storage system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 5 Active
US7168026B2 Method and apparatus for preservation of failure state in a read destructive memory Physics 5 Expired
US6925015B2 Stacked memory device having shared bitlines and method of making the same Physics 3 Expired
US7079490B1 Integrated circuit with trace analyzer Physics 2 Expired
US10261701B2 Methods to communicate a timestamp to a storage system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 1 Active
US6437783B1 Method and system for simultaneously displaying the throughput on multiple busses Physics 0 Expired

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