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Michael L. Workman — 20 Patents

IBM: 10 patents #10,925 of 70,183Top 20%
PSPillar Data Systems: 6 patents #4 of 18Top 25%
STSeagate Technology: 2 patents #2,099 of 4,722Top 45%
UFUS Air Force: 2 patents #3,485 of 16,312Top 25%
San Jose, CA: #3,285 of 32,062 inventorsTop 15%
California: #29,208 of 386,348 inventorsTop 8%
Overall (All Time): #214,803 of 4,157,543Top 6%
20 Patents All Time
Michael L. Workman has been granted 20 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1984 and the most recent in May 2010. Michael L. Workman ranks #214,803 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.2%). Patent records list Michael L. Workman in San Jose, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1984 to 2010Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 1986.peak 21984: 1 patents19841986: 2 patents1987: 1 patents19871989: 1 patents1993: 2 patents19931995: 1 patents1996: 2 patents19961999: 1 patents2000: 1 patents20002005: 2 patents2006: 1 patents20062007: 1 patents2008: 1 patents20082009: 2 patents2010: 1 patents2010

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–20 of 20 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7721022 Storage device with instructions for performing methods of processing I/O requests Michael Allan Brewer, David Alan Burton 2010-05-18
7594044 Systems and methods of processing I/O requests in data storage systems Michael Allan Brewer, David Alan Burton 2009-09-22
7483671 Processor based frequency selective jamming and communications system Blaise L. Corbett 2009-01-27
7418531 Quality of service for data storage volumes Michael Allan Brewer, David Alan Burton 2008-08-26
7216192 Guided configuration of data storage systems Paul Robert Boulay, Michael Allan Brewer 2007-05-08
7023342 Continuous wave (CW)—fixed multiple frequency triggered, radio frequency identification (RFID) tag and system and method employing same Blaise L. Corbett 2006-04-04
D511777 Front cover of a 4U host Peter Schmidt, Paul Robert Boulay, Kevin Paul Perera, Charles Anthony Woerner 2005-11-22
D511521 Front cover of a 2U data storage subsystem Peter Schmidt, Paul Robert Boulay, Kevin Paul Perera, Charles Anthony Woerner 2005-11-15
6014288 Partially etched protective overcoat for a disk drive slider Ellis Cha, Jia Lee, Luis P. Franco 2000-01-11 $113,627,000
5985163 Partially etched protective overcoat for a disk drive slider Ellis Cha, Jia Lee, Luis P. Franco 1999-11-16 $11,168,000
5544138 Adaptive system for optimizing disk drive power consumption Christopher H. Bajorek, Thomas Glaser, Klaas B. Klaassen, Charles R. Nielsen, George R. Santana +2 more 1996-08-06 $6,901,000
5521896 Adaptive system for optimizing disk drive power consumption Christopher H. Bajorek, Thomas Glaser, Klaas B. Klaassen, Charles R. Nielsen, George R. Santana +2 more 1996-05-28 $12,387,000
5422767 Vibration damper for a multiple disk drive unit Michael R. Hatchett, John S. Heath, Hubert Lee, Eun Row, Roger D. Spencer 1995-06-06 $7,414,000
5233487 Functional measurement of data head misregistration Thomas C. Christensen, Matthew W. Rooke 1993-08-03 $8,540,000
5204789 Low noise voltage-biasing amplifier for magnetoresistive element Stephen A. Jove, Charles R. Nielsen, Calvin Shizuo Nomura 1993-04-20 $8,588,000
4835633 Disk file digital servo control system with compensation for variation in actuator acceleration factor Stephen F. Edel, Kenneth G. Yamamoto, Mantle Man-Hon Yu 1989-05-30 $20,973,000
4679103 Digital servo control system for a data recording disk file 1987-07-07 $39,547,000
4616276 Disk file servo control system with fast reduction of repeatable head position error 1986-10-07 $22,670,000
4575776 Magnetic recording disk file servo control system including an actuator model for generating a simulated head position error signal Harold C. Stephens 1986-03-11 $15,527,000
4486797 Sliding mask variable resolution velocity trajectory for track following servo 1984-12-04 $17,585,000