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Bernd Lamberts — 39 Patents

IBM: 16 patents #6,980 of 70,183Top 10%
WTWestern Digital Technologies: 13 patents #247 of 3,180Top 8%
HGHGST: 8 patents #271 of 1,677Top 20%
HBHgst Netherlands, B.V.: 1 patents #510 of 972Top 55%
San Jose, CA: #1,453 of 32,062 inventorsTop 5%
California: #11,915 of 386,348 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #81,245 of 4,157,543Top 2%
39 Patents All Time
Bernd Lamberts has been granted 39 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 2000 and the most recent in December 2025. Bernd Lamberts ranks #81,245 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.0%). Patent records list Bernd Lamberts in San Jose, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2000 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 6 patents in 2002.peak 62000: 1 patents20002001: 2 patents2002: 6 patents20022003: 5 patents2004: 1 patents20042005: 2 patents2006: 1 patents20062007: 1 patents2009: 3 patents20092011: 1 patents2012: 1 patents20122016: 1 patents2019: 2 patents20192020: 3 patents2021: 1 patents20212022: 1 patents2023: 5 patents20232025: 2 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 39 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12511213 Programmable telemetry and alerts for storage devices Grant C. Mackey, Matias Bjorling 2025-12-30
12230304 Data storage device with write protection and guaranteed rapid write verification in energy-assisted recording (EAR) Bernhard E. Knigge, Erhard Schreck, Qing Dai 2025-02-18
11775366 Data storage device adjusting refresh monitor based on a learning based feedback control Zarko Popov, Hitoshi Yoshida, Mao Nishiyama, Victor Ramirez 2023-10-03 $5,774,000
11768701 Exception analysis for data storage devices Remmelt Pit, Cory Peterson, Kris Schouterden, David R. Hall, Shad Henry Thorstenson +1 more 2023-09-26 $31,855,000
11644986 Adaptive power loss management for data storage devices Shad Henry Thorstenson, Andrew Larson, Mark Bergquist 2023-05-09 $10,166,000
11621963 Fleet health management corrective action communication exchange Jeffrey R. Hobbet, Evan Richardson, Remmelt Pit, Ravi Prakash Singh 2023-04-04 $11,571,000
11593204 Fleet health management device classification framework Jeffrey R. Hobbet, Maulik Thaker, Evan Richardson, Remmelt Pit 2023-02-28 $14,822,000
11531582 Data storage device dynamically relocating data sectors based on map-out value Remmelt Pit, Abhishek Srivastava, Karthik Venkatesh, Ammar A. Zayed 2022-12-20 $4,719,000
10897273 System-level error correction coding allocation based on device population data integrity sharing Remmelt Pit, Timothy Lieber, Robert Michael Lester, Zarko Popov 2021-01-19 $15,953,000
10811047 Embedded disconnected circuits in magnetic storage media of data storage devices Pankaj Mehra, Sridhar Chatradhi, Jordan Asher Katine 2020-10-20 $17,563,000
10777225 Methods of using embedded disconnected circuits in magnetic storage media of data storage devices Pankaj Mehra, Sridhar Chatradhi, Jordan Asher Katine 2020-09-15 $22,588,000
10672425 Embedded disconnected circuits in magnetic storage media of data storage devices Pankaj Mehra, Sridhar Chatradhi, Jordan Asher Katine 2020-06-02 $151,764,000
10474397 Unified indirection in a multi-device hybrid storage unit Vijay Karamcheti 2019-11-12 $18,824,000
10283149 Energy-assisted magnetic recording device capable of predicting the usable life of magnetic head Classica Jain, Remmelt Pit 2019-05-07 $6,761,000
9460745 Preheating a hard disk drive head slider for head switch seek Karl A. Flechsig, Craig K. Yanagisawa 2016-10-04
8131920 Method and system for dynamically allocating read and write sequence randomizer Ryoheita Hattori, David H. Jen, Remmelt Pit, Kris Schouterden 2012-03-06 $113,000
7920350 Adaptive data recovery procedure based on radial positioning Hoan A. Au, Theofilos G. Fkiaras, David H. Jen, Kris Schouterden, Douglas Zuercher 2011-04-05 $209,000
7551379 Write element before read element with early servo termination on write Mantle Man-Hon Yu 2009-06-23 $93,000
7538961 Using inductance to measure writer spacing in perpendicular magnetic recording Vladimir Nikitin, James Terrence Olson 2009-05-26 $110,000
7525760 Laminated write gap to improve writer performance Wen-Chien David Hsiao, Terence T. L. Lam, Yinshi Liu, Terry Wayne Olson, Michael Ming Hsiang Yang +1 more 2009-04-28 $89,000
7225293 Method, system, and program for executing input/output requests 2007-05-29 $226,000
7126778 Process of dynamically adjusting the operating parameters of a computer storage device according to environmental conditions 2006-10-24 $14,060,000
6963458 Method and apparatus for reducing the servo position error signal non-linearity during self-servo writing irrespective of the head width 2005-11-08 $167,000
6947234 Method, system, and program for performing error correction in a storage device having a magnetic storage medium William Harlow McConnell, Adam D. Polcyn, Frank J. Wang 2005-09-20 $5,282,000
6700726 Method for controlling air pressure in an evacuated disk drive Donald Ray Gillis, Kris Schouterden 2004-03-02 $219,000