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Steve McCarthy — 6 Patents

MAMaxtor: 4 patents #96 of 656Top 15%
STSeagate Technology: 1 patents #4,219 of 4,722Top 90%
LCL-3 Communications Cyterra: 1 patents #18 of 42Top 45%
Platteville, CO: #7 of 27 inventorsTop 30%
Colorado: #7,724 of 40,980 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #779,687 of 4,157,543Top 20%
6 Patents All Time
Steve McCarthy has been granted 6 US patents while listed as an inventor at Maxtor. The first was granted in 2002 and the most recent in December 2012. Steve McCarthy ranks #779,687 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 18.8%). Patent records list Steve McCarthy in Platteville, CO, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2002 to 2012Bar chart with a peak of 1 patents in 2002.peak 12002: 1 patents20022005: 1 patents20052006: 1 patents20062007: 1 patents20072008: 1 patents20082012: 1 patents2012

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–6 of 6 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
RE43883 High efficiency, error minimizing coding strategy method and apparatus John L. Seabury 2012-12-25
7404131 High efficiency, error minimizing coding strategy method and apparatus John L. Seabury 2008-07-22
7310060 Multi-mode landmine detector Gregory Stilwell, Geoffrey Solomon, Richard Thomas McCoy 2007-12-18
7032127 Method and apparatus for identifying defective areas on a disk surface of a disk drive based on defect density Curtis W. Egan 2006-04-18 $12,944,000
6924952 Method and apparatus for data storage in a disk drive Don Brunnett, Uwe Schwiegelshohn 2005-08-02 $22,827,000
6353315 Method and apparatus for using the data interface of a disk drive to identify and characterize disk flaws Curtis W. Egan, David Winters 2002-03-05 $26,108,000