MH

Michael Hicken

LS Lsi: 11 patents #103 of 1,740Top 6%
WT Western Digital Technologies: 4 patents #31 of 224Top 15%
ST Seagate Technology: 2 patents #1,946 of 4,626Top 45%
XI Xiotech: 1 patents #10 of 28Top 40%
Overall (All Time): #234,280 of 4,157,543Top 6%
19
Patents All Time

Issued Patents All Time

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
11593262 Garbage collection command scheduling Jonathan Henze 2023-02-28
10394493 Managing shingled magnetic recording (SMR) zones in a hybrid storage device Alex Tang, Leonid Baryudin, Mark Ish, Carl Forhan 2019-08-27
8898371 Accessing logical-to-physical address translation data for solid state disks Randy Reiter, Timothy Swatosh, Pamela Hempstead 2014-11-25
8806112 Meta data handling within a flash media controller Vinay Ashok Somanache, Pamela Hempstead, Timothy Swatosh, Jackson L. Ellis, Martin S. Dell 2014-08-12
8645618 Flexible flash commands Vinay Ashok Somanache, Jackson L. Ellis, Timothy Swatosh, Martin S. Dell, Pamela Hempstead 2014-02-04
8555141 Flash memory organization Timothy Swatosh, Martin S. Dell 2013-10-08
8458381 Processing host transfer requests for direct block access storage devices Bryan Holty, Carl Forhan, Jeffrey L. Williams 2013-06-04
8352690 Cache synchronization for solid state disks Carl Forhan, Timothy Swatosh, Pamela Hempstead, Timothy Lund 2013-01-08
8316178 Buffering of data transfers for direct access block devices Timothy Lund, Carl Forhan 2012-11-20
8301861 Startup reconstruction of logical-to-physical address translation data for solid state disks Randy Reiter, Timothy Swatosh, Pamela Hempstead 2012-10-30
8245112 Flash memory organization Martin S. Dell 2012-08-14
8219776 Logical-to-physical address translation for solid state disks Carl Forhan, Pamela Hempstead, Randy Reiter, Timothy Swatosh 2012-07-10
8166258 Skip operations for solid state disks Timothy Lund, Carl Forhan, Timothy Swatosh, Pamela Hempstead, Bryan Holty +1 more 2012-04-24
7293196 Method, apparatus, and system for preserving cache data of redundant storage controllers James N. Snead 2007-11-06
6307705 Method and apparatus for reducing track switch latency in a disk drive Clark A. Anderson, Todd B. Anderson, Gerald L. Cadloni, Earl A. Cunningham, Daniel D. Reno +1 more 2001-10-23
6195218 Disk drive which efficiently stores zone parameter sets for a plurality of disk surfaces James Edward Guttmann, Timothy Swatosh 2001-02-27
6105104 Method and apparatus for optimizing the data transfer rate to and from a plurality of disk surfaces James Edward Guttmann, Mark Heminger, Steven M. Howe, Timothy Swatosh 2000-08-15
6092149 Disk drive cache system using a dynamic priority sequential stream of data segments continuously adapted according to prefetched sequential random, and repeating types of accesses Steven M. Howe, Daniel John Sokolov, Timothy Swatosh, Jeffrey L. Williams 2000-07-18
5822142 Method of mapping logical sectors to physical sectors in a disk drive sparing partition 1998-10-13