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Stan Shepherd — 12 Patents

MAMaxtor: 8 patents #31 of 656Top 5%
STSeagate Technology: 4 patents #1,498 of 4,722Top 35%
California: #51,404 of 386,348 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #396,045 of 4,157,543Top 10%
12 Patents All Time
Stan Shepherd has been granted 12 US patents while listed as an inventor at Maxtor. The first was granted in 2004 and the most recent in July 2014. Stan Shepherd ranks #396,045 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 9.5%). Patent records list Stan Shepherd in معلمی نژاد, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2004 to 2014Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2009.peak 32004: 1 patents20042006: 2 patents20062007: 1 patents20072008: 2 patents20082009: 3 patents20092010: 2 patents20102014: 1 patents2014

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–12 of 12 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8767337 Disk-synchronized loading/unloading of magnetic head Craig Smith, Bernhard Hiller, Erhard Schreck 2014-07-01 $17,445,000
7728539 Methods and apparatuses for measuring VCM BEMF at a VCM control update rate Craig Smith, Xin Yang, Yu Sun 2010-06-01 $9,558,000
7729076 Angularly spaced spiral erase for media Craig Smith, Brian P. Rigney, Todd Franks, Xin Yang, Bruce A. Liikanen 2010-06-01 $9,558,000
7619846 Self-servo writing using staged patterning S. Craig Smith, Yu Sun 2009-11-17
7561359 Spiral servo patterns with absolute reference point Jay Il Jeong, Tim Everett 2009-07-14
7551387 Servo writing with offset compensation for prewritten reference Yu Sun, Dave McMurtrey, Bruce A. Liikanen, Don Brunnett, John VanLaanen +4 more 2009-06-23
7414809 Servo writing using radially overlapped servo segments S. Craig Smith, Yu Sun, Yuan Chen, Lin Guo 2008-08-19
7375918 Method of self-servo writing in a disk drive using multiple timing windows Nathan Hays 2008-05-20
7304818 Preconditioning an elastomeric stop member for use as a reference position Xin Yang, S. Craig Smith, Lin Guo, Yu Sun, Brian P. Rigney +1 more 2007-12-04 $49,248,000
7145745 Multi-stage actuator disk drives, methods, and computer program products that compensate for repeatable runout based on estimated secondary actuator position Jason Adler, Lin Guo, Xiaoping Hu, Yu Sun 2006-12-05
7088533 Method of self-servo writing in a disk drive using a spiral pattern Nathan Hays 2006-08-08
6738205 Self-writing of servo patterns in disk drives Patrick Moran, Tim Everett, Peter McEwen, Mike Moser, Eduardo Veiga +2 more 2004-05-18 $10,670,000