Issued Patents All Time
Showing 1–25 of 92 patents
| Patent # | Title | Co-Inventors | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7694224 | Location predicative restoration of compressed images stored on a hard disk drive with soft and hard errors | Gordon James Smith | 2010-04-06 |
| 7268965 | Method of manufacturing an apparatus and a method for estimating the flyheight of an airbearing slider in a storage device | James Hammond Brannon, Gordon James Smith | 2007-09-11 |
| 7027263 | Apparatus for look-ahead thermal sensing in a data storage device | Gordon James Smith, Sri M. Sri-Jayantha | 2006-04-11 |
| 6956707 | Method for look-ahead thermal sensing in a data storage device | Gordon James Smith, Sri M. Sri-Jayantha | 2005-10-18 |
| 6927929 | Method and apparatus for controlling data read/write between a hard disk and a hard disk controller | Karl Gong, Gordon James Smith | 2005-08-09 |
| 6831808 | Method and apparatus for determining track identity from abbreviated track identifying data in a disk drive data storage device | Gordon James Smith | 2004-12-14 |
| 6785079 | Method and apparatus for estimating the flyheight of an airbearing slider in a storage device | James Hammond Brannon, Gordon James Smith | 2004-08-31 |
| 6775081 | Servo format for disk drive data storage devices | Gordon James Smith | 2004-08-10 |
| 6768607 | Adaptive dual-frequency notch filter | Gordon James Smith | 2004-07-27 |
| 6765745 | Method and apparatus for in situ detection of high-flying sliders over customer data | Gordon James Smith | 2004-07-20 |
| 6762899 | Method and apparatus for estimating the flyheight of an airbearing slider in a storage device using variable spindle velocity | Gordon James Smith | 2004-07-13 |
| 6741970 | Method and apparatus for enhanced, high speed updating and storing of E-commerce orders in a server | Gordon James Smith | 2004-05-25 |
| 6717763 | Power savings method and apparatus for disk drives | Gordon James Smith | 2004-04-06 |
| 6700728 | Method and disk drive for enhanced performance in the presence of stationary PES outliers | Gordon James Smith | 2004-03-02 |
| 6683737 | Method and apparatus for predictive failure analysis technique for head crashes in hard drives using position error signal | Karl Gong, Gordon James Smith | 2004-01-27 |
| 6678108 | Method and apparatus for identifying spindle imbalance in a hard disk drive | Gordon James Smith | 2004-01-13 |
| 6674590 | System and method for estimating a frequency of slider airbearing resonance | Gordon James Smith | 2004-01-06 |
| 6671111 | Readback signal detection and analysis in a magnetic data storage system | Gordon James Smith | 2003-12-30 |
| 6665134 | Methods and apparatus for detection and analysis of an envelope of a frequency modulated readback signal in a magnetic storage system | Gordon James Smith | 2003-12-16 |
| 6657809 | Method and apparatus for positioning a transducer using a phase difference in surface profile variations on a storage medium | Gordon James Smith | 2003-12-02 |
| 6654191 | Restoration of hard disk drive readback signal in the presence of thermal modulation | Gordon James Smith | 2003-11-25 |
| 6608727 | Method and apparatus for determining the tribology for a head/disk interface | Gordon James Smith | 2003-08-19 |
| 6560054 | Generation of a fixed angular disk position index in a DASD using a sensorless spindle motor | Gordon James Smith | 2003-05-06 |
| 6556371 | Generation of higher-order harmonic sine and cosine sequences by indexing a first-order sine/cosine table | Gordon James Smith | 2003-04-29 |
| 6529685 | Multimedia direct access storage device and formatting method | Gordon James Smith, George Willard VanLeeuwen | 2003-03-04 |