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Gary Walker — 8 Patents

MAMaxtor: 3 patents #132 of 656Top 25%
IBM: 2 patents #32,909 of 70,183Top 50%
SPSperry: 1 patents #355 of 841Top 45%
WTWestern Digital Technologies: 1 patents #1,874 of 3,180Top 60%
Rochester, MN: #679 of 3,042 inventorsTop 25%
Minnesota: #9,348 of 52,454 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #600,572 of 4,157,543Top 15%
8 Patents All Time
Gary Walker has been granted 8 US patents while listed as an inventor at Maxtor. The first was granted in 1981 and the most recent in February 2018. Gary Walker ranks #600,572 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 14.4%). Patent records list Gary Walker in Rochester, MN, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–8 of 8 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9886979 Implementing BER-list modulation code for hard disk drives Richard Leo Galbraith, Weldon M. Hanson, Iouri Oboukhov 2018-02-06 $16,244,000
7215507 Flow modification for reducing track misregistration in hard disk drives Ashok Machcha, James F. Martin 2007-05-08
6882501 Flow modification for reducing track misregistration in hard disk drives Ashok Machcha, James F. Martin 2005-04-19 $3,839,000
6788493 Diffuser for reducing fluid velocity near disk surfaces in a rotating storage device Shankar Subramaniam, Edward George Acciardi, Roger Burhans, Travis Lee Hein 2004-09-07 $15,446,000
6574756 Method and apparatus for identifying the start of a data field using a fault tolerant sync word Richard Leo Galbraith 2003-06-03 $9,669,000
5268848 Equalizer adjustment for partial-response maximum-likelihood disk drive systems Jonathan Darrel Coker, Richard Leo Galbraith 1993-12-07 $8,444,000
4534608 Shielded connector shell for flat cable Fred J. Scott 1985-08-13 $5,432,000
4279097 Soft playing disc 1981-07-21