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Hartvig E. Melbye — 10 Patents

STStorage Technology: 7 patents #61 of 682Top 9%
SPSperry: 2 patents #196 of 841Top 25%
SIStorage Technology Partners Ii: 1 patents #22 of 51Top 45%
Wayland, MA: #118 of 613 inventorsTop 20%
Massachusetts: #12,897 of 88,656 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #481,000 of 4,157,543Top 15%
10 Patents All Time
Hartvig E. Melbye has been granted 10 US patents while listed as an inventor at Storage Technology. The first was granted in 1980 and the most recent in December 2006. Hartvig E. Melbye ranks #481,000 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 11.6%). Patent records list Hartvig E. Melbye in Wayland, MA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1980 to 2006Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 1998.peak 21980: 1 patents19801984: 1 patents19841987: 1 patents19871994: 1 patents19941995: 1 patents19951998: 2 patents19982001: 1 patents20012003: 1 patents20032006: 1 patents2006

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–10 of 10 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7147180 Tape reel with self-generating negative pressure Robert A. Beard 2006-12-12
6545834 Method and apparatus for dimensional tape width compensation in a tape drive system 2003-04-08 $14,567,000
6233109 Magnetic tape drive having a set of heads configured such that at least one of the heads reads a desired data track 2001-05-15 $23,565,000
5850328 Media for recording data on two sides of a magnetic tape having angularly displaced orientations Michael L. Leonhardt 1998-12-15 $13,210,000
5826811 Method and apparatus for securing a reel in a cartridge David T. Hoge 1998-10-27 $17,646,000
5412194 Robust coding system Robert Spurr 1995-05-02 $12,684,000
5293285 Apparatus and media for recording data on two sides of a magnetic tape Michael L. Leonhardt 1994-03-08 $7,540,000
4706235 Differential track recording 1987-11-10
4482927 Ternary magnetic recording and reproducing system with simultaneous overwrite George V. Jacoby 1984-11-13 $5,383,000
4195318 High density bias linearized magnetic recording system utilizing Nyquist bandwidth partial response transmission Robert Price, John W. Craig, Avraham Perahia 1980-03-25 $2,414,000