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Bruce Schardt

MA Maxtor: 10 patents #23 of 656Top 4%
ST Seagate Technology: 2 patents #1,946 of 4,626Top 45%
WT Western Digital Technologies: 1 patents #1,787 of 3,180Top 60%
Overall (All Time): #384,313 of 4,157,543Top 10%
13
Patents All Time

Issued Patents All Time

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
8699172 Disk drive generating off-track read capability for a plurality of track segments Daniel James Gunderson, Richard T. Curran, Lloyd Levy 2014-04-15
8065481 RAID system and method compatible with improved drive select Bernhard Hiller, Pantelis Alexopoulos, Don Brunnett, Chandra Shaker Buddhavaram, Thierry Chatard +13 more 2011-11-22
7558015 Actuation efficiency based contact detection Erhard Schreck, Rickmer Kose, Davide Guarisco 2009-07-07
7509728 Method for adjusting head-to-disk spacing in a disk drive Erhard Schreck, Francis P. Crimi, Duc Bahn, Thao A. Nguyen, Kazuhiro Saito +6 more 2009-03-31
7486459 Disk drive with performance driven head-to-disk spacing Erhard Schreck, Anthony R. Hurtado, Andrew LeFebvre, Chris Hawks, Thao A. Nguyen +2 more 2009-02-03
7388726 Dynamically adjustable head disk spacing slider using thermal expansion Robert McKenzie, Thao A. Nguyen, Xiaokun Chew, Gang Herbert Lin, Jack Tsai +1 more 2008-06-17
7362534 System for detecting a change in head-to-disk contact status in a disk drive Erhard Schreck, Francis P. Crimi, Jingbo Yu, Michael Mallary, Scott Hughes +9 more 2008-04-22
7345837 Disk drive that refreshes data on portions of a disk based on a number of write operations thereto Erhard Schreck, Donald Brunnett, Hung Nguyen, Andrew W. Vogan 2008-03-18
7324299 Disk drive that positions a head at multiple head-to-disk spacings Erhard Schreck, Donald Brunnett, Jingbo Yu, Francis P. Crimi, Scott Hughes +7 more 2008-01-29
7310194 System for monitoring and dynamically adjusting head-to-disk spacing in a disk drive Erhard Schreck, Jingbo Yu, Michael Mallary, Scott Hughes, Duc H. Banh +9 more 2007-12-18
7310195 System and method for adjusting head-to-disk spacing in a disk drive Erhard Schreck, Francis P. Crimi, Andrew LeFebvre, Duc H. Banh, Thao A. Nguyen +1 more 2007-12-18
7092193 Dynamically adjustable head disk spacing slider using thermal expansion Robert McKenzie, Thao A. Nguyen, Xiaokun Chew, Gang Herbert Lin, Jack Tsai +1 more 2006-08-15
6987630 Method and apparatus for media thermal decay measurement in a disk drive Bill Higgins 2006-01-17