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Frank D. Mills

Examiner (ID: 35, Phone: (571)270-3172 , Office: P/2176 )

Most Active Art Unit
2176
Art Unit(s)
2176, 2194
Total Applications
642
Issued Applications
430
Pending Applications
44
Abandoned Applications
184

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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17/714861
DRAM-less SSD with command draining Apr 5, 2022 Issued
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17/710806
Selective fill for logical control over hardware multilevel memory Mar 30, 2022 Issued
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17/710600
Optimized deduplication based on backup frequency in a distributed data storage system Mar 30, 2022 Issued
Array ( [id] => 19899150 [patent_doc_number] => 12277071 [patent_country] => US [patent_kind] => B2 [patent_issue_date] => 2025-04-15 [patent_title] => Cache replacement policy optimization for producer-consumer flows [patent_app_type] => utility [patent_app_number] => 17/706044 [patent_app_country] => US [patent_app_date] => 2022-03-28 [patent_effective_date] => 0000-00-00 [patent_drawing_sheets_cnt] => 7 [patent_figures_cnt] => 7 [patent_no_of_words] => 1192 [patent_no_of_claims] => 20 [patent_no_of_ind_claims] => 3 [patent_words_short_claim] => 187 [patent_maintenance] => 1 [patent_no_of_assignments] => 0 [patent_current_assignee] =>[type] => patent [pdf_file] =>[firstpage_image] =>[orig_patent_app_number] => 17706044 [rel_patent_id] =>[rel_patent_doc_number] =>)
17/706044
Cache replacement policy optimization for producer-consumer flows Mar 27, 2022 Issued
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17/698182
Dynamic adjustment of data storage for enhanced data retention Mar 17, 2022 Issued
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17/653012
Processing device using variable stride pattern Feb 28, 2022 Issued
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17/683989
Managing power loss recovery using an oldest section write policy for an address mapping table in a memory sub-system Feb 28, 2022 Issued
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17/651648
Dynamic prefetching of data from storage Feb 17, 2022 Issued
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17/592022
CIRCUITRY AND METHOD Feb 2, 2022 Pending
Array ( [id] => 17597707 [patent_doc_number] => 20220147281 [patent_country] => US [patent_kind] => A1 [patent_issue_date] => 2022-05-12 [patent_title] => LARGE DATA READ TECHNIQUES [patent_app_type] => utility [patent_app_number] => 17/582480 [patent_app_country] => US [patent_app_date] => 2022-01-24 [patent_effective_date] => 0000-00-00 [patent_drawing_sheets_cnt] => 0 [patent_figures_cnt] => 0 [patent_no_of_words] => 10492 [patent_no_of_claims] => 0 [patent_no_of_ind_claims] => -17 [patent_words_short_claim] => 88 [patent_maintenance] => 1 [patent_no_of_assignments] => 0 [patent_current_assignee] =>[type] => publication [pdf_file] =>[firstpage_image] =>[orig_patent_app_number] => 17582480 [rel_patent_id] =>[rel_patent_doc_number] =>)
17/582480
LARGE DATA READ TECHNIQUES Jan 23, 2022 Issued
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17/579842
Producer prefetch filter Jan 19, 2022 Issued
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17/550050
Bios variables storage Dec 13, 2021 Issued
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17/539257
Memory system for maintaining data consistency and operation method thereof Nov 30, 2021 Issued
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17/535116
Programming frequently read data to low latency portions of a solid-state storage array Nov 23, 2021 Issued
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17/518355
Memory system, operation method thereof, and database system including the memory system Nov 2, 2021 Issued
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17/511695
Write cache management Oct 26, 2021 Issued
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17/501225
Storage controller, storage device, and operation method of storage device Oct 13, 2021 Issued
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17/483661
RE-STUBBING MIGRATED DATA Sep 22, 2021 Abandoned
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17/481796
SSD with multiple bandwidth tiers based on physical characteristics Sep 21, 2021 Issued
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17/464141
Data migration for write groups Aug 31, 2021 Issued
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