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San Jose, CA, United States of America

Netapp, Inc.

USPTO Granted Patents = 2,881

% Expired Patents = 4.6

CIPO Patents = 1

EPO Patents = 95

Trademarks = 37

Forward Citations = 37,314

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2,001 inventors (with patents filed for the assignee):

Ananthan Subramanian (111 out of 113 patents)

Akhil Kaushik (79 out of 84 patents)

Ling Zheng (73 out of 76 patents)

4. Jeffrey S Kimmel (68 out of 84 patents)

5. David Slik (56 out of 70 patents)

6. Tijin George (52 out of 53 patents)

7. Peter Frank Corbett (49 out of 79 patents)

8. Blake H Lewis (47 out of 62 patents)

9. Richard Parvin Jernigan, Iv (47 out of 51 patents)

10. Matthew Fontaine Curtis-Maury (42 out of 42 patents)

11. Ram Kesavan (42 out of 45 patents)

12. Anil Paul Thoppil (41 out of 42 patents)

13. Susan M Coatney (41 out of 54 patents)

14. Atul Ramesh Pandit (40 out of 42 patents)

15. Kaladhar Voruganti (39 out of 81 patents)

Core Competencies:

Data Staging

Container Security

Snapshot Storage

Ransomware Recovery

Anomaly Detection

Dynamic Storage

File System Archiving

Virtual Machine Protection

Cloud Computing

API Security

Object Storage

Data Management

2,881 patents: Sort by Forward Citations

1. 12748539 - Automatic space sharing of disaggregated storage of a storage pod by multiple nodes of a distributed storage system (2026-09-29),

2. 12748530 - Dynamic quality of service implementation based upon resource saturation (2026-09-29),

3. 12743523 - Enhancing container security by performing container vulnerability reduction based on static and dynamic analysis of dynamically loaded symbols and system call blocking (2026-09-22),

4. 12743376 - Projecting allocatable capacity for compute instances using cached data (2026-09-22),

5. 12743342 - Artificial intelligence data platform (2026-09-22),

6. 12743319 - Distributed control plane for reformatting communication between a container orchestration platform and a distributed storage architecture (2026-09-22),

7. 12743233 - Accumulating I/O operations of data and checksums into a single combined I/O operation for implementation by an underlying storage device layer (2026-09-22),

8. 12737260 - Volume group restore from remote object store (2026-09-15),

9. 12737127 - Cloud based interface for protecting and managing data stored in networked storage systems (2026-09-15),

10. 12732470 - Resource distribution engine(s) for allocating and securing reclaimable resources within a cloud environment (2026-09-08),

11. 12730580 - Systems and methods for managing storage system monitoring data using predictive compression (2026-09-08),

12. 12730577 - Facilitating multiple device consumption of shared namespaces of ephemeral storage devices by a consumer of a virtual storage device (2026-09-08),

13. 12724741 - Methods and systems for archiving file system data stored by a networked storage system (2026-09-01),

14. 12724546 - Dynamic storage aggregate layout refresh (2026-09-01),

15. 12717761 - Enhanced availability management of virtual storage volumes in file system services (2026-08-25),

NetApp, Inc., headquartered in San Jose, California, specializes in distributed storage systems that enhance data management and protection. The company focuses on core technology areas such as data staging, container security, and snapshot storage, providing solutions that ensure robust ransomware recovery and anomaly detection. With a commitment to dynamic storage and file system archiving, NetApp empowers organizations to safeguard their virtual machine environments and optimize their data infrastructure for modern workloads.

Profile summary based on public USPTO records.

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USPTO Data Jan 1 1976 - Sep 29 2026

2,881 Patents

#9 in San Jose, CA

#41 in California

#163 in US

#330 in the World

San Jose, CA, United States of America

Netapp, Inc.

Forward Citations = 37,314

2,001 inventors:

Ananthan Subramanian (111 out of 113 patents)

Akhil Kaushik (79 out of 84 patents)

Ling Zheng (73 out of 76 patents)

4. Jeffrey S Kimmel (68 out of 84 patents)

5. David Slik (56 out of 70 patents)

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