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Charles R. Patton, III

WT Western Digital Technologies: 16 patents #417 of 3,180Top 15%
NO Norotos: 4 patents #3 of 9Top 35%
📍 Long Beach, CA: #74 of 2,153 inventorsTop 4%
🗺 California: #28,827 of 386,348 inventorsTop 8%
Overall (All Time): #224,295 of 4,157,543Top 6%
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Showing 1–20 of 20 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
8687307 Disk drive detecting gas leaking from head disk assembly 2014-04-01
8636375 Shroud plate with lighting system Ronald R. Soto, Jonathon R. Prendergast 2014-01-28
8498172 Data storage device evaluating frequency range of supply voltage to detect power failure Norman D. Gardner 2013-07-30
8337036 Shroud plate with lighting system Ronald R. Soto, Jonathon R. Prendergast 2012-12-25
7649701 Magnetically activated switch assembly Jonathon R. Prendergast 2010-01-19
7504918 Magnetically activated switch Jonathon R. Prendergast 2009-03-17
7006320 Disk drive comprising a multi-phase spindle motor having a center tap connectable to a secondary supply voltage George J. Bennett 2006-02-28
6876508 Disk drive comprising control circuitry powered by a secondary voltage supplied by a center tap of a spindle motor during a normal operating mode George J. Bennett 2005-04-05
6847504 Split VCM actuator George J. Bennett 2005-01-25
6826007 Disk drive using dual slope integrator to extract velocity of an actuator arm from a back EMF voltage 2004-11-30
6674600 Disk drive having separate motion sensors for base and actuator Raffi Codilian 2004-01-06
6417979 Disk drive including strain transducer for detecting mechanical shock Barry L. Klein 2002-07-09
6067206 Method and apparatus to compensate for servo wedge rotational offset after a head switch Richard W. Hull, David B. Joan, Vafa James Rakshani, Charles W. Simmons 2000-05-23
6052076 Digital-to-analog converter having high resolution and high bandwidth George J. Bennett 2000-04-18
5889629 Method and apparatus for controlling disk drive head parking during power interruption 1999-03-30
5768045 Hardware velocity limit control system Donald G. Stupeck 1998-06-16
5654840 Hard disk drive which uses the back EMF of the actuator to detect shocks John Robert Edwards, Anil Sareen 1997-08-05
4998075 Programmable multiple oscillator circuit Timothy G. O'Shaughnessy 1991-03-05
4920339 Switchable bus termination and address selector Robert C. Friend 1990-04-24
4745524 Mounting of printed circuit boards in computers 1988-05-17