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Robert E. Whyte, Jr. — 14 Patents

TITexas Instruments: 11 patents #1,295 of 12,488Top 15%
Eastman Kodak: 1 patents #4,972 of 8,114Top 65%
STSeagate Technology: 1 patents #3,349 of 4,701Top 75%
Dallas, TX: #525 of 7,543 inventorsTop 7%
Texas: #10,699 of 125,132 inventorsTop 9%
Overall (All Time): #332,869 of 4,157,543Top 9%
14 Patents All Time
Robert E. Whyte, Jr. has been granted 14 US patents while listed as an inventor at Texas Instruments. The first was granted in 1991 and the most recent in February 2019. Robert E. Whyte, Jr. ranks #332,869 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 8.0%). Patent records list Robert E. Whyte, Jr. in Dallas, TX, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–14 of 14 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10211767 Back EMF monitor for motor control Qunying Li, Juergen Luebbe 2019-02-19 $30,239,000
9575473 Back EMF monitor for motor control Qunying Li, Juergen Luebbe 2017-02-21 $11,965,000
9136787 Back EMF monitor for motor control Qunying Li, Juergen Luebbe 2015-09-15 $9,454,000
7652445 On-chip compensation for a fully differential voice coil motor control Degang Xia 2010-01-26 $17,469,000
7522368 Differential voice coil motor control Degang Xia 2009-04-21 $12,447,000
7154725 Hard disk drive (HDD) electrical over voltage stress (EOS) systems and methods James E. Chloupek 2006-12-26 $9,254,000
7106567 Hard disk drive (HDD) electrical over voltage stress (EOS) systems and methods James E. Chloupek 2006-09-12 $24,391,000
6892170 Method and apparatus for modeling mass storage disk drive motors Tan Du 2005-05-10 $25,858,000
6555977 Disk drive motor position detection using mutual inductance zero crossing Tan Du 2003-04-29 $22,974,000
6208280 Converting a pulse-width modulation signal to an analog voltage John M. Baker, Edward N. Jeffrey 2001-03-27
6184645 Voltage mode drive for control circuit for an actuator using sampled back EMF control Joao Carlos Brito, John K. Rote 2001-02-06 $64,248,000
5821717 Method and circuit for driving a hard disk drive spindle motor Mehedi Hassan, James E. Chloupek 1998-10-13 $13,254,000
5121270 Multitransducer head positioning servo for use in a bi-directional magnetic tape system Ezra R. Alcudia 1992-06-09
5012989 Apparatus and method for tape velocity and tension control in a capstanless magnetic tape transport Ezra R. Alcudia 1991-05-07 $6,185,000