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Carl E. Barlow — 20 Patents

WTWestern Digital Technologies: 20 patents #141 of 3,180Top 5%
Lake Forest, CA: #92 of 1,030 inventorsTop 9%
California: #29,208 of 386,348 inventorsTop 8%
Overall (All Time): #214,803 of 4,157,543Top 6%
20 Patents All Time
Carl E. Barlow has been granted 20 US patents while listed as an inventor at Western Digital Technologies. The first was granted in 2007 and the most recent in July 2016. Carl E. Barlow ranks #214,803 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.2%). Patent records list Carl E. Barlow in Lake Forest, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2007 to 2016Bar chart with a peak of 6 patents in 2015.peak 62007: 1 patents20072011: 3 patents20112012: 3 patents20122014: 3 patents20142015: 6 patents20152016: 4 patents2016

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–20 of 20 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9383923 Write pointer management for a disk drive James N. Malina, Joo Peng Teh, Sang Huynh, Robert M. Fallone, William B. Boyle +4 more 2016-07-05 $22,323,000
9298380 Data storage device with selective write to a first storage media or a second storage media Chun Sei Tsai, Choo-Bhin Ong, Cheng Fatt Yee, Chandra M. Guda 2016-03-29 $15,202,000
9269393 Electronic system with data refresh mechanism and method of operation thereof Steven L. Webb, Chun Sei Tsai, Anthony L. Pei 2016-02-23 $5,909,000
9251823 Data storage device delaying seek operation to avoid thermal asperities Kexiu Liu, Orhan Beker, Kenneth T. Tabacchi, Chun Sei Tsai 2016-02-02 $8,574,000
9202517 Disk drive calibrating defect threshold based on statistical quality metric measured for reference tracks Chirag C. Patel, Andrew W. Fok, Chun Sei Tsai, Donald Brunnett 2015-12-01 $21,448,000
9117489 Data storage device screening heads by verifying defects after defect scan Dean V. Dang, Chun Sei Tsai, Chirag C. Patel, Ammar A. Zayed, Thao Hieu Banh 2015-08-25 $10,874,000
9075714 Electronic system with data management mechanism and method of operation thereof Chun Sei Tsai, Thao Hieu Banh 2015-07-07 $10,686,000
9053747 Disk drive calibrating failure threshold based on noise power effect on failure detection metric Baoliang Zhang, Chun Sei Tsai 2015-06-09 $7,420,000
9036283 Data storage device with selective write to a first storage media or a second storage media Chun Sei Tsai, Choo-Bhin Ong, Cheng Fatt Yee, Chandra M. Guda 2015-05-19 $24,239,000
9025269 Disk drive compensating for cycle slip of disk locked clock when reading mini-wedge Richard K. Wong, Sanghoon Chu, Guoxiao Guo, Jack M. Chue, Wei Guo +1 more 2015-05-05 $7,613,000
8902533 Disk drive detecting different asperities on a disk using different sensor bias settings Chun Sei Tsai, Chirag C. Patel, Boon Sien Chew, Thomas A. O'Dell, David Wachenschwanz +1 more 2014-12-02 $11,207,000
8797667 Disk drive calibrating bias signal for touchdown sensor Chun Sei Tsai, Thomas A. O'Dell, David E. Fowler, David Wachenschwanz, Balvinder Singh 2014-08-05 $9,261,000
8694841 Methods and devices for preventing potential media errors from growing thermal asperities Heon Ho Chung, Chun Sei Tsai, Kenneth J. Smith 2014-04-08 $11,341,000
8320067 Refresh operations using write/read commands Chun Sei Tsai, Sang Huynh, Kenneth J. Smith 2012-11-27 $6,616,000
8271692 Throttled command completion time Peter H. Dinh, Joseph M. Viglione, Sang Huynh, Chun Sei Tsai 2012-09-18 $24,494,000
8116025 Disk drive executing retry operation after adjusting jog value in response to gain control Tom Chan, Chun Sei Tsai, Colin W. Morgan 2012-02-14 $12,763,000
8004785 Disk drive write verifying unformatted data sectors Chun Sei Tsai, William B. Boyle, Kenneth J. Smith 2011-08-23 $8,551,000
7982993 Disk drive employing different servo TPI to data TPI ratios across the disk surface Chun Sei Tsai, William B. Boyle 2011-07-19 $12,664,000
7933087 Disk drive storing parameters of a write operation in a plurality of data sectors Chun Sei Tsai, William B. Boyle 2011-04-26 $18,601,000
7212374 Disk drive to characterize misaligned servo wedges Zhi Wang, Jenghung Chen, Chun Sei Tsai 2007-05-01 $6,597,000