Patents by Inventor Robert John German

Robert John German has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • UNINTERUPTABLE POWER SUPPLY ENCLOSURE AND BATTERY LOCKER
    Publication number: 20110183599
    Abstract: An enclosure, which includes a box portion having a top wall, the top wall having at least one fan and at least one baffle; and a lid portion, which fits over the top wall of the box portion and creates at least one passage extending along a front wall and/or a back wall of the enclosure to allow airflow from within the box portion of the enclosure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2011
    Publication date: July 28, 2011
    Applicant: CHANNELL COMMERCIAL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Robert John GERMAN
  • Deterministic preventive recovery from a predicted failure in a distributed storage system
    Patent number: 7526684
    Abstract: A data storage subsystem in a distributed storage system having a plurality of predictive failure analyzing data storage devices. The subsystem furthermore has a circuit that is responsive to a predicted failure indication by a data storage device in relation to predetermined rules stored in memory for deterministically initiating a preventive recovery either by a data recovery procedure in the data storage device or by a fault tolerance storage arrangement in the subsystem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2009
    Assignee: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventors: Bruce Allen Bicknell, Mark Allen Gaertner, Paul William Burnett, Robert John German, Robert George Bean