Inventor

Don S. Keener

Inventor

Boca Raton, FL, US

Overview

20→

Patents

1986–2016

Patent span

Physics

Primary field (CPC G)

Patents· 20 as inventor

Public. Assignee & technology derived from the patent record. Each patent links to its LexDana page.

G06Fprimary

G06FElectric digital data processing45%

F28DHeat-exchange apparatus, not provided for in another subclass, in which the heat-exchange media do not come into direct contact13%

F28FDetails of heat-exchange and heat-transfer apparatus, of general application13%

H10WGeneric packages, interconnections, connectors or other constructional details of devices covered by class h1013%

H05KPrinted circuits6%

G11BInformation storage based on relative movement between record carrier and transducer3%

H01LSemiconductor devices3%

Y10TTechnical subjects covered by former us classification3%

PatentTitleYear

9,230,881'Heat sink for dissipating a thermal load'2016 8,498,121'Printed circuit assembly with determination of storage configuration based on installed paddle board'2013 8,230,908'Heat sink for dissipating a thermal load'2012 7,347,251'Heat sink for distributing a thermal load'2008 7,218,517'Cooling apparatus for vertically stacked printed circuit boards'2007 7,195,058'Heat sink made from a singly extruded heatpipe'2007 5,701,514'System providing user definable selection of different data transmission modes of drivers of an I/O controller transmitting to peripherals with different data transmission rate'1997 5,586,302'Personal computer system having storage controller with memory write control'1996 5,550,991'Personal computer system having high speed local processor bus and storage controller with FIFO memory coupled directly thereto'1996 5,550,990'Physical partitioning of logically continuous bus'1996 5,524,267'Digital I/O bus controller circuit with auto-incrementing, auto-decrementing and non-incrementing/decrementing access data ports'1996 5,371,861'Personal computer with small computer system interface (SCSI) data flow storage controller capable of storing and processing multiple command descriptions (\"threads\")'1994 5,299,315'Personal computer with programmable threshold FIFO registers for data transfer'1994 5,293,590'Personal computer with interface controller'1994 5,287,476'Personal computer system with storage controller controlling data transfer'1994 5,204,951'Apparatus and method for improving the communication efficiency between a host processor and peripheral devices connected by an SCSI bus'1993 5,175,822'Apparatus and method for assigning addresses to SCSI supported peripheral devices'1992 5,033,049'On-board diagnostic sub-system for SCSI interface'1991 4,979,148'Increasing options in mapping ROM in computer memory space'1990 4,633,345'Positioning misaligned disk heads'1986

Career & activity timeline

Assembled from patent assignee/location history and declaration credentials.

1986–2016Patents assigned to IBM (20)· patent assignee history

1986–1997Based in Boca Raton, FL, US· patent location history

2007–2016Based in Apex, NC, US· patent location history

2012–2016Patents assigned to FOSTER SR JIMMY G (2)· patent assignee history

2012–2016Patents assigned to HARDEE DONNA C (2)· patent assignee history

2012–2016Patents assigned to KEENER DON S (2)· patent assignee history

2012–2016Patents assigned to WOLFORD ROBERT R (2)· patent assignee history

2013Based in Durham, NC, US· patent location history

Inventor activity

Assignee and location history derived from the patent record.

Assignees

Assignee	Patents	Span
IBM	20	1986–2016
FOSTER SR JIMMY G	2	2012–2016
HARDEE DONNA C	2	2012–2016
KEENER DON Sself	2	2012–2016
WOLFORD ROBERT R	2	2012–2016

Locations

Location	Patents	Span
Boca Raton, Florida, US	14	1986–1997
Apex, NC, US	5	2007–2016
Durham, NC, US	1	2013