Patents
US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026
50 patents granted to the 3 names below, as the owner printed on each patent when it was granted. A later sale, a lapse or an expiry is not read, so this is what was granted to Penguin Solutions, Inc.’s names, not what it holds today.
Patents granted
50
50 utility, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
3
Against 1 in 2024 and 1 in 2023
Applications published
45
11 of them in 2025
Names they are printed under
3
a subsidiary, its own name
By yearGrantedApplications published
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Each pair is one calendar year. Applications are published about eighteen months after filing, so the newest years read low.
What they are aboutgrants since 2021
The main technology area of each patent, in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 35 fields.
Under which name3 counted
SMART Modular Technologies, Inc. a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
18 publishedSMART Modular Technologies, Inc. a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in US. 1 more under the same name are not counted (printed in MY)
27 publishedPenguin Solutions, Inc. its own name
US, as the owner printed on each patent
0 publishedNames not counted (2)
SMART Modular Technologies (DE), Inc.
No country is printed for it. 0 granted and 2 published under it are not counted.
SMART Modular Technologies (DE), Inc.
Most of its patents print MY; this name counts in US. 2 granted and 0 published under it are not counted.
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
| Granted | Patent | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Nov 18, 2025 | 12,475,007 | Methods and systems for enhanced fault detection of a component of a computing node through peer-based assessments | Computer technology | Penguin Solutions, Inc. |
| Sep 2, 2025 | 12,405,752 | Migrating data between byte-addressable and block-addressable storage devices in processor-based devices | Computer technology | SMART Modular Technologies, Inc. |
| Mar 18, 2025 | 12,254,188 | Systems and methods for memory snapshotting | Computer technology | SMART Modular Technologies, Inc. |
| Dec 17, 2024 | 12,169,436 | Serial attached non-volatile memory | Computer technology | SMART Modular Technologies, Inc. |
| Jan 24, 2023 | 11,561,739 | Catastrophic event memory backup system | Computer technology | SMART Modular Technologies, Inc. |
| Nov 23, 2021 | 11,182,325 | Memory centric computing storage controller system | Computer technology | SMART Modular Technologies, Inc. |
| Dec 29, 2020 | 10,877,544 | Memory management system with backup system and method of operation thereof | Computer technology | SMART Modular Technologies, Inc. |
| Nov 17, 2020 | 10,838,806 | Solid state storage system with latency management mechanism and method of operation thereof | Computer technology | SMART Modular Technologies, Inc. |
| Nov 3, 2020 | 10,826,989 | Data storage system with information exchange mechanism and method of operation thereof | Digital communication | SMART Modular Technologies, Inc. |
| Aug 25, 2020 | 10,755,757 | Multi-rank memory module that emulates a memory module having a different number of ranks | Computer technology | SMART Modular Technologies, Inc. |
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
| Published | Application | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Oct 30, 2025 | 2025/0337182 | CONNECTOR FOR MEMORY STICK | Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy | SMART Modular Technologies, Inc. |
| May 29, 2025 | 2025/0173221 | SELECTIVE BACKUP TO PERSISTENT MEMORY FOR VOLATILE MEMORY | Computer technology | SMART Modular Technologies, Inc. |
| May 29, 2025 | 2025/0172608 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TESTING THERMAL CONDITIONING OF AN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT (IC) | Measurement | SMART Modular Technologies, Inc. |
| May 15, 2025 | 2025/0155941 | ENERGY SOURCE FOR MEMORY DEVICE | Computer technology | SMART Modular Technologies, Inc. |
| May 15, 2025 | 2025/0155493 | FORCED EARLY FAILURE FOR MEMORY DEVICE | Computer technology | SMART Modular Technologies, Inc. |
| Apr 24, 2025 | 2025/0132290 | MEMORY PACKAGING WITH INTEGRATED ACTIVE COOLING DEVICES AND RELATED METHODS | Semiconductors | SMART Modular Technologies, Inc. |
| Mar 27, 2025 | 2025/0103247 | MIGRATING DATA BETWEEN BYTE-ADDRESSABLE AND BLOCK-ADDRESSABLE STORAGE DEVICES IN PROCESSOR-BASED DEVICES | Computer technology | SMART Modular Technologies, Inc. · patent 12,405,752 granted from it |
| Mar 6, 2025 | 2025/0077447 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BALANCING MEMORY SPEEDS | Computer technology | SMART Modular Technologies, Inc. |
| Mar 6, 2025 | 2025/0077089 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MEMORY SNAPSHOTTING | Computer technology | SMART Modular Technologies, Inc. · patent 12,254,188 granted from it |
| Mar 6, 2025 | 2025/0076939 | MEMORY MODULES INCLUDING ACTIVE COOLING DEVICES AND RELATED METHODS | Audio-visual technology | SMART Modular Technologies, Inc. |
What it applied for, 2024 to 2025: Computer technology 9 · Audio-visual technology 1 · Semiconductors 1 · Measurement 1 · Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy 1.
A patent is counted where the owner printed on it when it was granted carries the company’s own name, a former name, the name of a subsidiary its annual report lists, or its own name with a patent-holding phrase (Technology Licensing, Intellectual Property and the like), once the legal form, case and punctuation are set aside, and prints a country that name counts in. PatentsView’s data are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Source: PatentsView's granted patents and pre-grant publications, disambiguated, from the USPTO's Open Data Portal, through Dec 31, 2025, read Oct 27, 2026.