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William C. Dodt

ST Storage Technology: 17 patents #19 of 682Top 3%
IBM: 4 patents #21,733 of 70,183Top 35%
Overall (All Time): #211,286 of 4,157,543Top 6%
21
Patents All Time

Issued Patents All Time

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
7327264 System and method for extending performance of media cartridge RF identification Larry Stephen Mitchell, Zengqi Yu 2008-02-05
7316352 System and method for locked code on a radio frequency identification tag Zengqi Yu 2008-01-08
6577467 Helical scan transport for single reel tape cartridge David T. Hoge, John C. Owens 2003-06-10
6239930 Method and apparatus for automatically activating a one of video data channel and a computer data channel in a tape drive in response to detection of the nature of the data recorded on a magnetic tape loaded in the tape drive Jerry L. Donze, John C. Owens, Brian P. Egan, Ralph Leon Butts, Donald R. Schenck 2001-05-29
5629815 Apparatus and method for reducing head wear in helical scan tape transport Samuel D. Cheatham, John C. Owens, Debra C. Rutherford 1997-05-13
5576903 Method and apparatus for administering data on magnetic tape medium by way of a header segment Thomas Brown, Donald F. McCarthy, Richard C. Mendoza, Charles A. Milligan 1996-11-19
5566032 Method for utilizing a longitudinal track on a helical scan tape data storage system to provide a fast search capability Brian G. Cleveland, Douglas C. Hansen 1996-10-15
5526198 Method and apparatus for administering video data on magnetic tape media using a data record format to store video frames Jerry L. Donze 1996-06-11
D367828 Indicator portion of a write protect block David T. Hoge, John C. Owens 1996-03-12
5487171 System for reading and stopping reading data from magnetic tape into memory in response to mount command and write command respectively from the system processor Terry R. Gottehrer, Charles A. Milligan 1996-01-23
5463519 Apparatus for cleaning a tape path in a tape drive Robert D. Stroud 1995-10-31
5369532 Method and apparatus for managing data on rewritable media to define read/write operational status Jerry L. Donze, Terry R. Gottehrer, Ronald W. Korngiebel, Donald F. McCarthy 1994-11-29
5369641 Method and apparatus for detecting and correcting errors in data on magnetic tape media Thomas G. Liehe, Donald F. McCarthy, Charles A. Milligan 1994-11-29
5351159 Magnetic tape cartridge having media identification Jerry L. Donze, Michael L. Leonhardt, Charles A. Milligan, Hari S. Narahari, John C. Owens +1 more 1994-09-27
5325255 Self identifying universal data storage element David T. Hoge, Donovan M. Janssen, John C. Owens 1994-06-28
5325370 Method and apparatus for recording data on magnetic tape media Brian G. Cleveland, Terry R. Gottehrer, Donald F. McCarthy, Charles A. Milligan 1994-06-28
5202809 Magnetic tape cartridge for helical scan transports with a single reel Donald F. McCarthy 1993-04-13
4423480 Buffered peripheral system with priority queue and preparation for signal transfer in overlapped operations Wayne J. Bauer, Charles R. Kirkpatrick, Ted A. Rehage, Francis L. Robinson, William Taylor 1983-12-27
4368977 Document ejector apparatus and method useful for copiers Nelson K. Arter, Michael D. Avritt, Marion J. Herman 1983-01-18
4367947 Document feeder for moving bed machines such as copiers Nelson K. Arter, Charles A. Farel 1983-01-11
4251885 Checking programmed controller operation Edward P. Lutter 1981-02-17