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Mark Heimbaugh — 9 Patents

MAMaxtor: 7 patents #38 of 656Top 6%
STSeagate Technology: 1 patents #3,214 of 4,701Top 70%
Santa Clarita, CA: #122 of 1,031 inventorsTop 15%
California: #67,547 of 386,348 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #535,341 of 4,157,543Top 15%
9 Patents All Time
Mark Heimbaugh has been granted 9 US patents while listed as an inventor at Maxtor. The first was granted in 1990 and the most recent in December 2009. Mark Heimbaugh ranks #535,341 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 12.9%). Patent records list Mark Heimbaugh in Santa Clarita, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–9 of 9 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7633702 Method and apparatus for powering voice coil motor retract circuit while braking spindle 2009-12-15 $13,680,000
7369345 Mobile hard disk drive free fall detection and protection Yunfeng Li, Erhard Schreck, Wei Guo, Tim R. Glassburn, William Robert Flynn, IV +4 more 2008-05-06
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
7350394 Zero-g offset identification of an accelerometer employed in a hard disk drive William Robert Flynn, IV, Wei Guo, Yunfeng Li 2008-04-01
7203019 Latch apparatus for latching an actuator arm assembly in a disk drive Yanning Liu, Yanchu Xu, Michael C. McGrath, David M. Tung 2007-04-10
7095201 Method and apparatus for providing a user selectable start-up current in a disk drive Erhard Schreck 2006-08-22
7085094 Interleaved repeatable runout correction for data storage device Yu Sun 2006-08-01
6980383 Monitoring of phenomena indicative of PTP in a magnetic disk drive Don Brunnett, Duc H. Banh, Jingbo Yu, Suet Teo, Erhard Schreck 2005-12-27 $29,229,000
4910617 Disk drive head positioning servo system utilizing encoded track zone information Donald Brunnett, Ashok K. Desai 1990-03-20