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San Jose, CA, United States of America

Netapp, Inc.

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USPTO Granted Patents = 2,892

% Expired Patents = 4.6

CIPO Patents = 1

EPO Patents = 95

Trademarks = 37

Forward Citations = 37,648

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2,002 inventors (with patents filed for the assignee):

Ananthan Subramanian (112 out of 114 patents)

Akhil Kaushik (81 out of 86 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 (53 out of 54 patents)

7. Peter Frank Corbett (49 out of 81 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 (44 out of 44 patents)

11. Ram Kesavan (43 out of 46 patents)

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

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

14. Atul Ramesh Pandit (41 out of 43 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

2,892 patents: Sort by Forward Citations

1. 12776782 - File system format for persistent memory (2026-10-27),

2. 12775558 - Processor cache adjustments for storage performance (2026-10-27),

3. 12769703 - Supporting a lookup structure for a file system implementing hierarchical reference counting (2026-10-20),

4. 12769615 - Methods and systems for restoring directories containing multi-part data containers (2026-10-20),

5. 12764120 - Management of access to object storage services using a directory service (2026-10-13),

6. 12762088 - Replicating clone files from a source file system to a destination file system (2026-10-13),

7. 12762021 - Methods and systems to reduce latency of input/output (I/O) operations during creation of common snapshots based on batching of synchronous replicated datasets at a primary storage system to a cross-site secondary storage system (2026-10-13),

8. 12756754 - Executable objects in a distributed storage system (2026-10-06),

9. 12754808 - Asynchronous region-aware prefetching and caching (2026-10-06),

10. 12754804 - Methods and multi-site systems to provide recovery point objective (RPO) protection, snapshot retention between secondary storage site and tertiary storage site, and automatically initiating realignment and reconfiguration of a protection configuration from the secondary storage site to the tertiary storage site upon primary storage site failure (2026-10-06),

11. 12754686 - Maintaining the benefit of parallel splitting of ops between primary and secondary storage clusters in synchronous replication while adding support for op logging and early engagement of op logging (2026-10-06),

12. 12748539 - Automatic space sharing of disaggregated storage of a storage pod by multiple nodes of a distributed storage system (2026-09-29),

13. 12748530 - Dynamic quality of service implementation based upon resource saturation (2026-09-29),

14. 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),

15. 12743376 - Projecting allocatable capacity for compute instances using cached data (2026-09-22),

Company Overview

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 synthesized from public USPTO records and patent filings.

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USPTO Data Jan 1 1976 - Oct 27 2026

2,892 Patents

#9 in San Jose, CA

#41 in California

#162 in US

#327 in the World

San Jose, CA, United States of America

Netapp, Inc.

Forward Citations = 37,648

2,002 inventors:

Ananthan Subramanian (112 out of 114 patents)

Akhil Kaushik (81 out of 86 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)

IDiyas Innovation Intelligence. (2026). Company Patent Portfolio: Netapp, Inc.. Retrieved from https://idiyas.com/company/netapp

Data source: USPTO (United States Patent and Trademark Office) public patent records. Weekly synchronization. How IDiyas builds this profile

Data Sources: USPTO Patent Grant XML, Patent Center, EPO & CIPO • Normalized by IDiyas Innovation Graph. Methodology & provenance architecturePlease report any incorrect information to [email protected]

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