CW

Charles R. Watt

DA Dphi Acquisitions: 40 patents #2 of 45Top 5%
ST Seagate Technology: 3 patents #1,519 of 4,626Top 35%
DE Digital Equipment: 1 patents #1,005 of 2,100Top 50%
MA Maxtor: 1 patents #329 of 656Top 55%
OD Optical Devices: 1 patents #2 of 7Top 30%
Oracle: 1 patents #8,282 of 14,854Top 60%
Overall (All Time): #61,129 of 4,157,543Top 2%
47
Patents All Time

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 25 most recent of 47 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
8565052 Methods, systems, and computer program products for correcting repeatable runout Fred R. Hansen 2013-10-22
8510766 Drum for use in testing optical tape media and method and apparatus for mounting optical tape media on drum Faramarz Mahnad, Scott D. Wilson, Steve Ray 2013-08-13
8000049 Self-servo writing using reference patterns with timing correction John VanLaanen 2011-08-16
7782721 Digital focus and tracking servo system with multi-zone calibration Ron J. Kadlec, Christopher J. Turner, Hans Brandon Wach 2010-08-24
7680004 Digital servo system with inverse non-linearity compensation Ron J. Kadlec, Christopher J. Turner 2010-03-16
7675702 Reduced convolution for repetitive disturbance rejection Xiao-Ping Zhang, John VanLaanen 2010-03-09
7672199 Close focus algorithm in a digital focus servo system Ron J. Kadlec, Christopher J. Turner 2010-03-02
7570445 Adaptively adjusting seek function control parameters based on off-track write events Steven J. Alfred 2009-08-04
7551387 Servo writing with offset compensation for prewritten reference Yu Sun, Dave McMurtrey, Bruce A. Liikanen, Don Brunnett, John VanLaanen +4 more 2009-06-23
7260031 Digital focus and tracking servo system with one-track jump Ron J. Kadlec 2007-08-21
7196979 Calibration storage methods for a digital focus and tracking servo system with calibration Ron J. Kadlec, Christopher J. Turner, Hans Brandon Wach 2007-03-27
7079459 System and method for performing a spin motor startup operation Christopher J. Turner 2006-07-18
7065018 CLV system and method using PSA lookup Christopher J. Turner 2006-06-20
7057983 System and method for controlling tracking and seeking in an optical disc drive Christopher J. Turner, Ron J. Kadlec 2006-06-06
7054242 System and method for controlling focus in an optical disc drive Christopher J. Turner, Ron J. Kadlec 2006-05-30
7038988 System and method for controlling time critical operations in a control system for an optical disc drive Christopher J. Turner, Ron J. Kadlec 2006-05-02
7023776 Calibration initiation methods for a tracking and focus servo system Ron J. Kadlec, Christopher J. Turner, Hans Brandon Wach 2006-04-04
7020054 Digital servo system with biased feed-forward Ron J. Kadlec, Christopher J. Turner 2006-03-28
6977873 System and method to adjust the level of re-calibration effort based on disc drive performance Christopher J. Turner, Ron J. Kadlec, Hans Brandon Wach 2005-12-20
6970410 Focus detection in a digital focus servo system Ron J. Kadlec 2005-11-29
6970403 Calibration of tracking error signal offset in a tracking servo system Ron J. Kadlec, Hans Brandon Wach 2005-11-29
6963524 System and method for controlling interrupts in a control system for an optical disc drive Christopher J. Turner, Ron J. Kadlec 2005-11-08
6958963 System and method for handling events in an optical disc drive Christopher J. Turner, Ron J. Kadlec, Hans Brandon Wach 2005-10-25
6958957 Digital tracking and focus servo system with TES to FES crosstalk calibration Ron J. Kadlec, Hans Brandon Wach 2005-10-25
6950380 Detector input dark current offset calibration in an optical disk drive digital servo Ron J. Kadlec, Christopher J. Turner 2005-09-27