Curtis W. Egan — 18 Patents at Maxtor

Curtis W. Egan has been granted 18 US patents while listed as an inventor at Maxtor. The first was granted in 1992 and the most recent in July 2025. Curtis W. Egan ranks #245,716 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.9%). Patent records list Curtis W. Egan in Brighton, CO, US.

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Showing 1–18 of 18 patents

Patent #	Title	Co-Inventors	Date	Approx Value ⓘ
12366979	Managing a memory sub-system based on composite temperature	—	2025-07-22
12326769	Selectively using heroic data recovery methods in a memory device	—	2025-06-10
12299315	Coding for quad-level memory cells having a replacement gate configuration	—	2025-05-13
12190965	Coding to decrease error rate discrepancy between pages	—	2025-01-07
12107602	Dynamic decoding for memory systems	—	2024-10-01	$53,330,000
11914442	Selectively using heroic data recovery methods in a memory device	—	2024-02-27	$14,682,000
11899522	Independent thermal throttling temperature control for memory sub-systems	—	2024-02-13	$12,832,000
11442531	Independent thermal throttling temperature control for memory sub-systems	—	2022-09-13	$11,426,000
7787209	Method and apparatus for compensating for repeatable runout using wide embedded runout correction fields	Bruce A. Liikanen	2010-08-31
7518813	Methods and structure for detecting anomalous events in a disk drive using VGA variance	David Finamore	2009-04-14
7317586	Methods and structure for general purpose interval accumulating filter for measuring operational parameters of a digital read channel	Christine Green	2008-01-08
7170703	Flaw detection in disk drive using significant samples of data pattern stored on disk	—	2007-01-30
7032127	Method and apparatus for identifying defective areas on a disk surface of a disk drive based on defect density	Steve McCarthy	2006-04-18	$12,944,000
7023632	Monitoring of phenomena indicative of PTP in a hard disk and controlling the burnishing of heads	Quinn Haddock	2006-04-04	$10,182,000
6611390	Method and apparatus for improving servo zoning for PRML detected gray code using channel bit densities	—	2003-08-26	$54,406,000
6452735	Disk drive that monitors the flying height of a dual element transducer using a thermally induced signal during write operations	Gang Herbert Lin	2002-09-17	$4,215,000
6353315	Method and apparatus for using the data interface of a disk drive to identify and characterize disk flaws	Steve McCarthy, David Winters	2002-03-05	$26,108,000
5103897	Flowrate controller for hybrid capillary/mechanical two-phase thermal loops	Brent A. Cullimore, David L. Clark	1992-04-14	$14,374,000

Curtis W. Egan — 18 Patents

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