Inventor · Tucson, AZ, US

Robert George Emberty

51Patents
13h-index
25Co-inventors
80Inventor score

Filing activity: Jun 20, 1994 → Aug 21, 2008

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6537013B2 Picking mechanism with ventilation system for automated library of memory storage units Physics 88 Expired
US6464509B1 System and method requiring zero insertion force and positive retention of removable storage media in a data storage subsystem Electricity 87 Expired
US7327692B2 System and method for selecting fibre channel switched fabric frame paths Electricity 59 Expired
US7006325B2 Automated handling and interface mechanism for library of disk drive carriers Physics 54 Expired
US6233073A Diagnostic injection of transmission errors in fiber optic networks Electricity 53 Expired
US6725397B1 Method and system for preserving data resident in volatile cache memory in the event of a power loss Physics 35 Expired
US6954938B2 Apparatus and method to transport a data storage medium disposed in a portable carrier Physics 31 Expired
US6597972B2 Integrated fan assembly utilizing an embedded fan controller Electricity 25 Expired
US6600703B1 Magazine for a plurality of removable hard disk drives Physics 25 Expired
US6957351B2 Automated disk drive library with removable media powered via contactless coupling Physics 22 Expired
US6952792B2 Failover system for storage area network Electricity 21 Expired
US6697891B2 Parallel read/write circuit and method for efficient storing/retrieval of data to/from a recording medium Physics 21 Expired
US7082126B2 Fiber channel address blocking Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 17 Expired
US6775274B1 Circuit and method for providing secure communication over data communication interconnects Electricity 12 Expired
US5471445A Apparatus and method for sensing and holding an item Physics 12 Expired
US6941260B2 Method and apparatus for emulating a fiber channel port Physics 11 Expired
US6822820B1 Apparatus for detecting damage to the transducer head and/or tape guide of an interactive media device Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 10 Expired
US6904005B2 Power supply apparatus and method using same Physics 10 Expired
US6600238B1 Redundancy and component failure detection within a switching power system Electricity 9 Expired
US7212470B2 Method and apparatus to transfer information between a host computer and one or more hard disks disposed in a data storage and retrieval system Physics 9 Expired
US5796938A Diagnostic subsystem and method for SCSI Interface Physics 9 Expired
US6754768B2 Library of hard disk drives with transparent emulating interface Physics 8 Expired
US6122723A Switching multi-initiator SCSI devices to a singular target bus Physics 8 Expired
US6545481B1 Power interruption detection Electricity 7 Expired
US6177790A System and method for distributing power between components via a magnetic coupling Electricity 7 Expired

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