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Erhard Schreck — 96 Patents

MAMaxtor: 32 patents #3 of 656Top 1%
WTWestern Digital Technologies: 21 patents #127 of 3,180Top 4%
HTHeadway Technologies: 18 patents #56 of 309Top 20%
STSeagate Technology: 10 patents #627 of 4,701Top 15%
IBM: 10 patents #10,925 of 70,183Top 20%
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba: 2 patents #10,039 of 21,451Top 50%
Tdk: 2 patents #1,902 of 3,796Top 55%
HGHGST: 1 patents #1,167 of 1,677Top 70%
San Jose, CA: #289 of 32,062 inventorsTop 1%
California: #2,457 of 386,348 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #15,731 of 4,157,543Top 1%
96 Patents All Time
Erhard Schreck has been granted 96 US patents while listed as an inventor at Maxtor. The first was granted in 1996 and the most recent in April 2025. Erhard Schreck ranks #15,731 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.38%). Patent records list Erhard Schreck in San Jose, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 96 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12283293 Measuring laser diode temperature and predicting mode hops using laser diode resistance Sukumar Rajauria, Dongying Li 2025-04-22
12198737 Temperature control of a laser diode by applying reverse bias in a data storage device configured for heat-assisted magnetic recording Sukumar Rajauria 2025-01-14
12190908 Near-field transducer (NFT) designs for improved performance of heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) Sukumar Rajauria, Robert L. Smith 2025-01-07
12170435 Managing laser diode cavity thermal transients in HAMR disk drives Sukumar Rajauria, Robert L. Smith 2024-12-17 $82,578,000
12142896 Preheating laser diodes with reverse bias for HAMR disk drives Sukumar Rajauria, Robert L. Smith, Joey M. Poss 2024-11-12 $80,541,000
12027181 Tape assemblies having flangeless reel configurations and single flange reel configurations for magnetic recording devices Robert L. Smith 2024-07-02 $33,124,000
11978479 Regenerative braking for tape drive 2024-05-07 $16,486,000
11934687 Full disk serpentine write path for tamper-proof disk drive Sukumar Rajauria, Robert L. Smith 2024-03-19 $9,873,000
11881230 Heat treatment of NFT and surrounding material Sukumar Rajauria, Oscar J. Ruiz 2024-01-23 $12,313,000
11694722 Data timestamp and read counter for magnetic recording devices Shaomin Xiong, Robert L. Smith, Sukumar Rajauria 2023-07-04
11562769 Tape assemblies having movable reel configurations for magnetic recording devices Robert L. Smith 2023-01-24 $12,299,000
10783913 Data storage device measuring air bearing resonant frequency to calibrate fly height touchdown power Sukumar Rajauria, Weldon M. Hanson, Yeoungchin Yoon 2020-09-22 $19,280,000
10699736 Data storage device detecting abnormality with a write assist element based on slope of protrusion Sukumar Rajauria, Harold H. Gee 2020-06-30 $13,377,000
10650850 Hard disk drive with write gap conductive structure and dual independent interface voltage control circuitry Sukumar Rajauria, Na Wang, Qing Dai, John Contreras 2020-05-12 $10,650,000
10395678 Method and system for determining slider-disk contact in a magnetic recording disk drive with dual fly-height actuators Sukumar Rajauria, Robert L. Smith 2019-08-27 $33,289,000
10283145 Electromagnetically-shielded near-field transducer thermal sensor for heat-assisted magnetic recording Sukumar Rajauria, Wan Kuang, Takuya Matsumoto, Robert L. Smith 2019-05-07 $6,761,000
10056098 Data storage device employing multi-mode sensing circuitry for multiple head sensor elements Sukumar Rajauria, John Contreras, Joey M. Poss, Rehan Ahmed Zakai, Robert L. Smith +1 more 2018-08-21 $15,220,000
9922676 Data storage device gradually decreasing laser power after write operation Oscar J. Ruiz, Na Wang, Shaomin Xiong, Qing Dai 2018-03-20 $34,528,000
9881641 Burst writing for clearance calibration in a heat assisted magnetic data recording system Sripathi Vangipuram Canchi, Na Wang, Shaomin Xiong 2018-01-30 $19,455,000
9595280 Hard disk drive head-disk interface dithering Sripathi Vangipuram Canchi, Sukumar Rajauria, James W. Reiner 2017-03-14 $23,091,000
9564163 Implementing dual partially independent thermal flyheight control (TFC) for hard disk drives John Contreras, Ian Robson McFadyen 2017-02-07 $31,166,000
8934194 System and method for maintaining a low density gas environment in a disk drive 2015-01-13
8767337 Disk-synchronized loading/unloading of magnetic head Craig Smith, Bernhard Hiller, Stan Shepherd 2014-07-01 $17,445,000
8649249 Printing magnetic pattern onto disk David E. Fowler, Michael Mallary 2014-02-11 $13,097,000
8614933 Optical unit protection on a thermally-assisted magnetic recording head Xuhui Jin, Greg Lyon 2013-12-24