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David W. Chew

WT Western Digital Technologies: 8 patents #417 of 3,180Top 15%
MA Maxtor: 5 patents #72 of 656Top 15%
ST Seagate Technology: 2 patents #1,946 of 4,626Top 45%
IBM: 1 patents #44,794 of 70,183Top 65%
Overall (All Time): #292,658 of 4,157,543Top 8%
16
Patents All Time

Issued Patents All Time

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
11386925 Data storage device compensating for head/tape wear James N. Malina, Mark L. Watson, William B. Boyle 2022-07-12
11288353 Data storage device with secure access based on motions of the data storage device Jun XU, Lei Zhang, Wei Xi, Dean M. Jenkins, Jianguo Zhou 2022-03-29
11087011 Data storage device with secure access based on tap inputs Jun XU, Lei Zhang, Wei Xi, Dean M. Jenkins, Jianguo Zhou 2021-08-10
11081132 Tape embedded drive with HDD components 2021-08-03
10971184 Dual drive tape embedded system 2021-04-06
10068619 Hand held storage device Thomas J. Hitchner 2018-09-04
9626376 Local area network distributed storage 2017-04-18
8954637 Communications cable for a storage device 2015-02-10
8065481 RAID system and method compatible with improved drive select Bernhard Hiller, Pantelis Alexopoulos, Don Brunnett, Chandra Shaker Buddhavaram, Thierry Chatard +13 more 2011-11-22
7876532 Low-profile rotary motor with fixed back iron John E. Scura, John Beley, Wendy Lorimer, Babu S. RAHMAN, Frank Morris 2011-01-25
6982503 Voice coil for disk drive 2006-01-03
6636383 Disk drive actuator arm assembly with unitary flex cable 2003-10-21
6631053 Actuator pivot assembly that pivotally connects an actuator to a base of a disk drive 2003-10-07
6563676 Disk drive actuator arm Pantelis Alexopoulos 2003-05-13
6462913 Disk drive latching assembly 2002-10-08
4839756 Apparatus for read/write head loading and unloading in a data recording disk file Willi A. Hagenlocher, Chentung R. Jih, Ernie G. Nassimbene 1989-06-13