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Stan Shepherd

MA Maxtor: 8 patents #31 of 656Top 5%
ST Seagate Technology: 4 patents #1,284 of 4,626Top 30%
Overall (All Time): #421,697 of 4,157,543Top 15%
12
Patents All Time

Issued Patents All Time

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
8767337 Disk-synchronized loading/unloading of magnetic head Craig Smith, Bernhard Hiller, Erhard Schreck 2014-07-01
7728539 Methods and apparatuses for measuring VCM BEMF at a VCM control update rate Craig Smith, Xin Yang, Yu Sun 2010-06-01
7729076 Angularly spaced spiral erase for media Craig Smith, Brian P. Rigney, Todd Franks, Xin Yang, Bruce A. Liikanen 2010-06-01
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
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