Innovation Approach

Inventors of the Year

Innovating through a focused, high-impact patent portfolio.

Each year, Dell honors the outstanding inventors among its employees. This patent year, two Dell Inventors of the Year were recognized for their innovative work in several technical areas. Each invention represents an innovative approach designed to benefit Dell customers.

Mukund Khatri2008 — Mukund Khatri, Server  Software Strategist, Dell Server Advanced Engineering Group.  Mukund focuses on strategic Dell technologies, particularly power and cooling, virtualization, and memory reliability, availability and serviceability (RAS), with about half of his patent disclosures making their way into Dell server products.

Robert Winter2008 — Robert Winter, Storage Architect, Office of the CTO.  Robert focuses across the communications landscape, with particular emphasis on network security, protocol offload, network I/O virtualization, and all aspects of Ethernet technology, especially higher-speed Ethernet and emerging IEEE and IETF standards.

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Liam Quinn

2007 — Liam Quinn, Director, Security, Communications and Peripherals, Office of the CTO.  Liam develops and drives communications technology strategy across Dell product groups. In his patent work, he focuses across the communications landscape, with particular emphasis on wireless areas such as security, spectrum coexistence and harmonization across unlicensed bands, antennas and radio devices, bandwidth management, and traffic prioritization.
 
Dandekar
2006 — Shree Dandekar, Development Manager, Client Application Engineering.  Shree works on the design and development of "instant on" solutions, as well as third-party multimedia and hardware-enablement applications. His patent work focuses on software and services, particularly business models; enabling software for hardware devices, MP3 players, and cameras; and factory automation around software and services.