KF

Karl A. Flechsig

HG HGST: 18 patents #78 of 1,677Top 5%
IBM: 8 patents #13,150 of 70,183Top 20%
HB Hgst Netherlands, B.V.: 4 patents #198 of 972Top 25%
WT Western Digital Technologies: 2 patents #1,273 of 3,180Top 45%
📍 Los Gatos, CA: #241 of 2,986 inventorsTop 9%
🗺 California: #15,733 of 386,348 inventorsTop 5%
Overall (All Time): #112,293 of 4,157,543Top 3%
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Patents All Time

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 32 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
11776568 Device lifetime improvement through constant temperature Yu Lo, Yan Liu, Timothy A. Riener, Feng Liu, Yunfei Ding +1 more 2023-10-03
11715493 Long-term spacing compensation for heat assisted magnetic recording Erhard Schreck, Kenji Kuroki 2023-08-01
9460745 Preheating a hard disk drive head slider for head switch seek Bernd Lamberts, Craig K. Yanagisawa 2016-10-04
8630057 In-situ contact potential measurement in hard-disk drives Aravind N. Murthy, Remmelt Pit 2014-01-14
8576407 Contactless optical glide head using at least two concurrent interference signals and a multi-channel light detector for detecting disk asperities Gurinder Singh, Timothy Carl Strand 2013-11-05
8493688 Head slider and hard disk drive Rohit P. Ambekar, Remmelt Pit, Oscar J. Ruiz 2013-07-23
8338742 Dynamic test glide head calibration using laser adjustment Iraj Kavosh, Gurinder Singh, Tim Strand 2012-12-25
8094409 Method and system for monitoring gas in sealed hard disk drives with feedback Norbert A. Feliss 2012-01-10
7907062 Dual direction power and data transfer protocol and safety detection Norbert A. Feliss, Donald Ray Gillis, Sylvia Lee 2011-03-15
7874389 Flexible hybrid drive system for vehicle stability control Norbert A. Feliss, Donald Ray Gillis, Sylvia Lee 2011-01-25
7817371 Active compensation of flying height in magnetic disk drives Sanford A. Bolasna, Norbert A. Feliss, Donald Ray Gillis 2010-10-19
7538973 Method and apparatus for providing a fluid damping structure with fuel cell for a hard disk drive and vibration sensitive electronic devices Norbert A. Feliss, Donald Ray Gillis, Sylvia Lee 2009-05-26
7345845 Fluid damping structure for hard disk drives and vibration sensitive electronic devices Norbert A. Feliss, Donald Ray Gillis, Sylvia Lee 2008-03-18
7298575 Load/unload systems and methods for maximizing disk writeable area Donald Ray Gillis, Shozo Saegusa, Reinhard F. Wolter 2007-11-20
7278967 Hard disk drive medical monitor with mirrored HDDs Norbert A. Feliss, Donald Ray Gillis 2007-10-09
7251096 Shock induced cleaning for hard disk drives Norbert A. Feliss, Donald Ray Gillis, Sylvia Lee 2007-07-31
7247136 Hard disk drive medical monitor with alert signaling system Norbert A. Feliss, Donald Ray Gillis 2007-07-24
7201718 Hard disk drive medical monitor with electrical grounding system Norbert A. Feliss, Donald Ray Gillis 2007-04-10
7192398 Hard disk drive medical monitor with GPS Norbert A. Feliss, Donald Ray Gillis 2007-03-20
7176703 Test probe with thermally activated grip and release Donald Ray Gillis, Sylvia Lee 2007-02-13
7164549 Load/unload system and method for maximizing disk writeable area Donald Ray Gillis, Shozo Saegusa, Reinhard F. Wolter 2007-01-16
7154698 Load/unload system and method for maximizing disk writeable area Donald Ray Gillis, Shozo Saegusa, Reinhard F. Wolter 2006-12-26
7126777 Disk drive with selectable power source for heater in a slider Mike Suk 2006-10-24
6678113 Device and method for monitoring lubricant within a disk drive Norbert A. Feliss, Sylvia Lee, Donald Ray Gillis, Thomas A. Gregory 2004-01-13
6265846 Active bypass circuit for extending energy capacity and operational life of a multi-cell battery Donald Ray Gillis 2001-07-24