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David B. Jeppson — 11 Patents

QUQuantum: 8 patents #49 of 703Top 7%
MAMaxtor: 2 patents #206 of 656Top 35%
STSandisk Technologies: 1 patents #2,043 of 2,594Top 80%
Sunnyvale, CA: #2,552 of 14,302 inventorsTop 20%
California: #56,011 of 386,348 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #435,149 of 4,157,543Top 15%
11 Patents All Time
David B. Jeppson has been granted 11 US patents while listed as an inventor at Quantum. The first was granted in 1991 and the most recent in February 2014. David B. Jeppson ranks #435,149 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 10.5%). Patent records list David B. Jeppson in Sunnyvale, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1991 to 2014Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 1991.peak 21991: 2 patents19911993: 1 patents19931994: 2 patents19941995: 1 patents19951999: 1 patents19992000: 1 patents20002003: 1 patents20032006: 1 patents20062014: 1 patents2014

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–11 of 11 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8655463 Method for avoiding refreshing a database of metadata associated with digital media content William N. Thanos, Hyuk Il Kwon, In-Soo Yoon, Joseph Meza 2014-02-18 $46,748,000
7139149 Adapting compensation for repeatable runout of sectors based on tracked sector adaptation status Yu Sun, Dwight R. Kinney 2006-11-21
6519107 Hard disk drive having self-written servo burst patterns Richard M. Ehrlich, Jong Lin, Kenji Oki 2003-02-11 $27,466,000
6122131 Adaptively-controlled disk drive assembly 2000-09-19
5982571 Disk drive with closed loop commutator and actuator oscillator Gary W. Calfee 1999-11-09
5416648 Masterless synchronized spindle control for hard disk drives Benjamin Mark Simon Kenneth Miller 1995-05-16 $10,025,000
5325247 Digital multi-rate notch filter for sampled servo digital control system Richard M. Ehrlich 1994-06-28 $7,452,000
5280603 Servo pause for disk drive embedded multi-tasked controller Norman H. Wulferdinger, Bryan J. Mee, William N. Thanos, Joseph Cheng-Tsu Liu 1994-01-18 $8,540,000
5253129 Removable and transportable hard disk subsystem Richard J. Blackborow, Peter Hahn, Claude E. Camp, Donald C. Westwood, Rodica Florea +2 more 1993-10-12 $5,211,000
5065262 Removable and transportable hard disk subsystem Richard J. Blackborow, Peter Hahn, Claude E. Camp, Donald C. Westwood, Rodica Florea +2 more 1991-11-12 $5,633,000
5041924 Removable and transportable hard disk subsystem Richard J. Blackborow, Peter Hahn, Claude E. Camp, Donald C. Westwood, Rodica Florea +2 more 1991-08-20 $5,693,000