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Daniel F. Smith — 39 Patents

IBM: 38 patents #2,506 of 70,183Top 4%
HGHGST: 1 patents #1,032 of 1,677Top 65%
Felton, CA: #5 of 158 inventorsTop 4%
California: #11,767 of 386,348 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #82,509 of 4,157,543Top 2%
39 Patents All Time

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 39 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
11238896 Passive retraction of a hub clamp in an optical disc drive David J. Altknecht, John S. Best 2022-02-01
10692526 Actuator tip calibration for robotic optical storage system David J. Altknecht 2020-06-23
10580451 Disc storage cassettes comprising index features David J. Altknecht, Donald S. Bethune, William M. Dyer, A. David Erpelding, Steven R. Hetzler +1 more 2020-03-03
10529371 Actuator tip calibration for robotic optical storage system David J. Altknecht 2020-01-07
10438629 Disc storage cassettes comprising track connectors David J. Altknecht, Donald S. Bethune, William M. Dyer, A. David Erpelding, Steven R. Hetzler +1 more 2019-10-08
10242705 Disc storage cassettes comprising a movable bale David J. Altknecht, Donald S. Bethune, William M. Dyer, A. David Erpelding, Steven R. Hetzler +1 more 2019-03-26
10186295 Disc gripper for storage disc David J. Altknecht, John S. Best, Donald S. Bethune, William M. Dyer, A. David Erpelding +2 more 2019-01-22
9990325 Universal serial bus (USB) filter hub malicious code prevention system Steven R. Hetzler 2018-06-05
9984722 Disc storage cassettes David J. Altknecht, Donald S. Bethune, William M. Dyer, A. David Erpelding, Steven R. Hetzler +1 more 2018-05-29
9928008 Pre-loading a parameter to a media accessor to support a data request 2018-03-27
9741389 High performance robotic optical storage system David J. Altknecht, John S. Best, Donald S. Bethune, William M. Dyer, A. David Erpelding +2 more 2017-08-22
9741390 Optical disc drive David J. Altknecht, John S. Best, Donald S. Bethune, William M. Dyer, A. David Erpelding +2 more 2017-08-22
9690492 Random read performance of optical media library 2017-06-27
9672863 Disc gripper for storage discs David J. Altknecht, John S. Best, Donald S. Bethune, William M. Dyer, A. David Erpelding +2 more 2017-06-06
9633686 Disc storage cassettes David J. Altknecht, Donald S. Bethune, William M. Dyer, A. David Erpelding, Steven R. Hetzler +1 more 2017-04-25
9373353 Negative select access mechanism John S. Best, Steven R. Hetzler, Drew B. Lawson 2016-06-21
9058291 Multiple erasure correcting codes for storage arrays Mario Blaum, James L. Hafner, Steven R. Hetzler 2015-06-16
8941936 Hybrid surface format hard disk drive 2015-01-27
8656088 Optimized flash based cache memory Wendy A. Belluomini, Binny Sher Gill, James L. Hafner, Steven R. Hetzler, Eyal Lotem +3 more 2014-02-18
8645619 Optimized flash based cache memory Wendy A. Belluomini, Binny Sher Gill, James L. Hafner, Steven R. Hetzler, Eyal Lotern +3 more 2014-02-04
8583868 Storage system cache using flash memory with direct block access Wendy A. Belluomini, Binny Sher Gill, James L. Hafner, Steven R. Hetzler, Venu G. Nayar +1 more 2013-11-12
8484408 Storage system cache with flash memory in a raid configuration that commits writes as full stripes Steven R. Hetzler 2013-07-09
8386891 Anamorphic codes Steven R. Hetzler 2013-02-26
8214684 Incomplete write protection for disk array Steven R. Hetzler 2012-07-03
8108750 RAID 3+3 Steven R. Hetzler, Shmuel Winograd 2012-01-31