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David Rutherford — 27 Patents

Disney: 22 patents #293 of 6,686Top 5%
Sumitomo Electric Industries: 3 patents #7,735 of 21,551Top 40%
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba: 1 patents #13,641 of 21,451Top 65%
Rancho Cordova, CA: #15 of 502 inventorsTop 3%
California: #19,967 of 386,348 inventorsTop 6%
Overall (All Time): #142,059 of 4,157,543Top 4%
27 Patents All Time
David Rutherford has been granted 27 US patents while listed as an inventor at Disney. The first was granted in 1996 and the most recent in March 2014. David Rutherford ranks #142,059 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.4%). Patent records list David Rutherford in Rancho Cordova, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1996 to 2014Bar chart with a peak of 7 patents in 2011.peak 71996: 1 patents19962006: 1 patents20062007: 2 patents20072008: 3 patents20082009: 2 patents20092010: 4 patents20102011: 7 patents20112012: 3 patents20122013: 3 patents20132014: 1 patents2014

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 27 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8681449 Calibrating servos Jason Adler, Man Cheung, Perry Neos, Luan Ton-That 2014-03-25 $1,997,000
8619380 Detecting and recovering timing slips in a self servo write (SSW) system Man Cheung 2013-12-31 $1,728,000
8493684 Calibrating voice coil motors Luan Ton-That 2013-07-23 $1,934,000
8422158 Calibrating servos Man Cheung, Jerry Richgels, Perry Neos 2013-04-16 $2,873,000
8284510 Detecting and recovering timing slips in a self servo write (SSW) system Man Cheung 2012-10-09 $3,350,000
8194343 Calibrating servos Jason Adler, Man Cheung, Perry Neos, Luan Ton-That 2012-06-05 $5,070,000
8184392 Calibrating servos Man Cheung, Jerry Richgels, Perry Neos 2012-05-22 $3,506,000
8085492 Helicoid group switching Man Cheung, Perry Neos 2011-12-27 $4,917,000
8068304 Calibrating servos Man Cheung, Jerry Richgels, Perry Neos 2011-11-29 $19,722,000
8031428 Single-pass spiral self-servo-write 2011-10-04 $2,700,000
8023216 Calibrating servos Man Cheung, Jerry Richgels, Perry Neos 2011-09-20 $5,143,000
7995305 Calibrating voice coil motors Luan Ton-That 2011-08-09 $2,725,000
7944313 Calibrating control loops Edward Ying, Pantas Sutardja 2011-05-17 $4,502,000
7869158 Helicoid group switching Man Cheung, Perry Neos 2011-01-11 $6,289,000
7777981 Method for improved insitu spiral writing 2010-08-17 $12,354,000
7773334 Single-pass spiral self-servo-write 2010-08-10 $5,793,000
7773335 Calibrating servos Jason Adler, Man Cheung, Perry Neos, Luan Ton-That 2010-08-10 $5,793,000
7737793 Calibrating control loops Edward Ying, Pantas Sutardja 2010-06-15 $7,503,000
7567404 Method for measuring actuator velocity during self-servo-write Luan Ton-That 2009-07-28 $21,545,000
7561361 Dynamic synchronization of timing signals 2009-07-14 $8,300,000
7471482 Method for improved insitu spiral writing 2008-12-30 $5,826,000
7440224 Disk drive servo Richard M. Ehrlich 2008-10-21 $114,000
7349171 Method for measuring actuator velocity during self-servo-write Luan Ton-That 2008-03-25 $33,335,000
7292402 Systems and methods for multipass servowriting with a null burst pattern Richard M. Ehrlich 2007-11-06 $404,000
7259931 Slider design for high fly write immunity Michael A. Baldwinson 2007-08-21 $265,000