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Thomas Zirps — 11 Patents

STSeagate Technology: 11 patents #516 of 4,626Top 15%
Minneapolis, MN: #574 of 6,114 inventorsTop 10%
Minnesota: #6,858 of 52,454 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #460,074 of 4,157,543Top 15%
11 Patents All Time

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Showing 1–11 of 11 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
9558772 Position error signal (PES) detection Timothy F. Ellis 2017-01-31
9502062 Using two or more offset repeatable runout correction values for a virtual track of a magnetic disk Andrei Dorobantu, Tim Rausch 2016-11-22
9178531 Servo gray code check bits Mustafa Can Ozturk, Puskal Prasad Pokharel, Barmeshwar Vikramaditya 2015-11-03
7843661 Controller with fractional position algorithm David L. Schell, Chris Settje 2010-11-30
7589930 Zone based repeated runout error compensation Reed D. Hanson, Peng Yan, Samir Mittal, Timothy F. Ellis 2009-09-15
7567403 Bi-directional servo track writing to minimize sidewall writing at high skew angles Alexei H. Sacks, Haoying Sun 2009-07-28
7251097 Written-in error compensation method for coherent repeatable runout Reed D. Hanson, John C. Morris 2007-07-31
6956711 Fractional-rate feedforward RRO compensator Reed D. Hanson, Nathaniel B. Wilson, John C. Morris 2005-10-18
6930851 Guiding a sensor using a broadly-curved lateral profile Reed D. Hanson, John C. Morris, Nathaniel B. Wilson, Brent Jay Harmer 2005-08-16
6847503 Repeatable runout compensation in a disc drive Tao Zhang, John C. Morris 2005-01-25
6449116 Compression and storage of written-in error compensation tables in an embedded servo disc drive John C. Morris 2002-09-10