William A. Brant
39Patents
22h-index
42Co-inventors
85Inventor score
Filing activity: Mar 2, 1990 → Sep 21, 2017
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US5799200A | Power failure responsive apparatus and method having a shadow dram, a flash ROM, an auxiliary battery, and a controller | Physics | 700 | Expired |
| US5148432A | Arrayed disk drive system and method | Physics | 264 | Expired |
| US5274799A | Storage device array architecture with copyback cache | Physics | 221 | Expired |
| US5787459A | Distributed disk array architecture | Physics | 211 | Expired |
| US5235601A | On-line restoration of redundancy information in a redundant array system | Physics | 180 | Expired |
| US5911779A | Storage device array architecture with copyback cache | Physics | 142 | Expired |
| US6460122B1 | System, apparatus and method for multi-level cache in a multi-processor/multi-controller environment | Physics | 95 | Expired |
| US6289398A | Distributed storage array system having plurality of storage devices which each of devices including a modular control unit for exchanging configuration information over a communication link | Physics | 87 | Expired |
| US5619642A | Fault tolerant memory system which utilizes data from a shadow memory device upon the detection of erroneous data in a main memory device | Physics | 86 | Expired |
| US5548711A | Method and apparatus for fault tolerant fast writes through buffer dumping | Physics | 84 | Expired |
| US5689678A | Distributed storage array system having a plurality of modular control units | Physics | 78 | Expired |
| US5526482A | Storage device array architecture with copyback cache | Physics | 74 | Expired |
| US5848435A | Address protection circuit and method for preventing access to unauthorized address rangers | Physics | 58 | Expired |
| US5617530A | Storage device array architecture with copyback cache | Physics | 42 | Expired |
| US5469566A | Flexible parity generation circuit for intermittently generating a parity for a plurality of data channels in a redundant array of storage units | Physics | 37 | Expired |
| US5671920A | High speed printed sheet stacking and registration system | Performing Operations; Transporting | 35 | Expired |
| US6983396B2 | Apparatus for reducing the overhead of cache coherency processing on each primary controller and increasing the overall throughput of the system | Physics | 34 | Expired |
| US5887270A | Fault tolerant controller system and method | Physics | 32 | Expired |
| US5675726A | Flexible parity generation circuit | Physics | 30 | Expired |
| US6629158B1 | System, apparatus, and method for configuring an array controller | Physics | 28 | Expired |
| US5905854A | Fault tolerant memory system | Physics | 24 | Expired |
| US5213317A | Modular binding apparatus with rotating transport | Performing Operations; Transporting | 22 | Expired |
| US5613059A | On-line restoration of redundancy information in a redundant array system | Physics | 22 | Expired |
| US5037079A | Vacuum platen transport plenum vacuum shutter | Physics | 22 | Expired |
| US5921540A | Vacuum corrugation feeder with a retractable corrugator | Performing Operations; Transporting | 21 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.