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Keith R. Berding — 41 Patents

WTWestern Digital Technologies: 25 patents #87 of 3,180Top 3%
Applied Materials: 10 patents #1,301 of 7,310Top 20%
SESentera: 3 patents #27 of 178Top 20%
STSeagate Technology: 1 patents #4,399 of 4,722Top 95%
WMWd Media: 1 patents #83 of 182Top 50%
RRRead Rite: 1 patents #164 of 255Top 65%
Truckee, CA: #3 of 107 inventorsTop 3%
California: #11,075 of 386,348 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #75,001 of 4,157,543Top 2%
41 Patents All Time
Keith R. Berding has been granted 41 US patents while listed as an inventor at Western Digital Technologies. The first was granted in 1998 and the most recent in December 2025. Keith R. Berding ranks #75,001 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.8%). Patent records list Keith R. Berding in Truckee, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1998 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 7 patents in 2005.peak 71998: 2 patents19981999: 2 patents2000: 2 patents2001: 1 patents20012002: 1 patents2003: 3 patents2004: 2 patents20042005: 7 patents2006: 1 patents2007: 1 patents20072008: 1 patents2010: 1 patents2011: 1 patents20112012: 1 patents2013: 2 patents2014: 1 patents20142015: 2 patents2022: 1 patents2023: 4 patents20232024: 2 patents2025: 3 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 41 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12489022 In-situ etch rate and etch rate uniformity detection system Blake Erickson, Soumendra N. Barman, Zhen Zhu 2025-12-02
12432461 Smart camera substrate Upendra Ummethala, Philip Allan Kraus, Blake Erickson, Patrick Tae, Devendra Channappa Holeyannavar +4 more 2025-09-30
12405164 Spatial optical emission spectroscopy for etch uniformity Blake Erickson, Michael Kutney, Zhaozhao Zhu, Tsung Feng Wu, Michael D. Willwerth +1 more 2025-09-02
12114083 Smart camera substrate Upendra Ummethala, Philip Allan Kraus, Blake Erickson, Patrick Tae, Devendra Channappa Holeyannavar +4 more 2024-10-08 $69,128,000
11927543 Multiple reflectometry for measuring etch parameters Blake Erickson, Michael Kutney, Soumendra N. Barman, Zhaozhao Zhu, Michelle SanPedro +1 more 2024-03-12 $97,620,000
11830779 In-situ etch material selectivity detection system Blake Erickson, Soumendra N. Barman, Zhaozhao Zhu 2023-11-28 $39,424,000
11736818 Smart camera substrate Upendra Ummethala, Philip Allan Kraus, Blake Erickson, Patrick Tae, Devendra Channappa Holeyannavar +4 more 2023-08-22 $40,609,000
11668602 Spatial optical emission spectroscopy for etch uniformity Blake Erickson, Michael Kutney, Zhaozhao Zhu, Tsung Feng Wu, Michael D. Willwerth +1 more 2023-06-06 $40,761,000
11619594 Multiple reflectometry for measuring etch parameters Blake Erickson, Michael Kutney, Soumendra N. Barman, Zhaozhao Zhu, Michelle SanPedro +1 more 2023-04-04 $41,324,000
11284018 Smart camera substrate Upendra Ummethala, Philip Allan Kraus, Blake Erickson, Patrick Tae, Devendra Channappa Holeyannavar +4 more 2022-03-22 $64,102,000
9196295 Disk to motor hub swage attachment David Bagaoisan, Yao-Hsin Huang 2015-11-24 $9,900,000
9123387 Magnetic recording drives with active photocatalytic filtration Vlad Novotny 2015-09-01 $6,971,000
8797677 Disk deflection damper for disk drive Baekho Heo, Enoch Mylabathula, Brian P. Schott, Jonathan M. Garbarino 2014-08-05 $9,261,000
8514514 Disk drive having an inner frame with a side opening and an extruded hermetically sealed outer enclosure Thomas J. Hitchner, Brian P. Schott 2013-08-20 $20,898,000
8451559 Disk drive having a base with a protruding peripheral metal flange that is folded over a top cover to enclose helium Sudha Narayan, Robert Bradley Burkhart, Thomas J. Hitchner 2013-05-28 $20,041,000
8322021 Method of manufacturing a disk drive David Bagaoisan, Yao-Hsin Huang 2012-12-04 $10,539,000
8031431 Disk drive having a top cover with anchor tabs Chunjer C. Cheng, Thomas J. Hitchner, James A. DeMuth, Charles D. Flanigan 2011-10-04 $24,894,000
7656609 Disk drive motor having a rotor with at least three bendable balancing tabs Shan-Shuong Chiou, Yao-Hsin Huang 2010-02-02 $11,417,000
7385784 Disk drive cover with top and bottom layers electrically grounded with first and second flaps and method of manufacturing the same Gabriel F. Camara, Pang Choun Cheong 2008-06-10 $82,512,000
7209317 Disk drive housing member including an electrically insulative coating and metallic platings and method of manufacturing the same Norman K. Watkins 2007-04-24 $8,670,000
6990727 Method of making disk drives using a frame array with a plurality of disk drive base portions Walter W. Butler, Joseph M. Viglione 2006-01-31 $11,776,000
6975476 Disk drives and host devices including a resetable shock sensor 2005-12-13 $6,847,000
6958884 Disk drive having an acoustic damping shield assembly with an acoustic barrier layer Valentin Ojeda, David Ali 2005-10-25 $5,147,000
6954329 Disk drive having an acoustic damping assembly with an acoustic barrier layer Valentin Ojeda, David Ali 2005-10-11 $5,561,000
6934126 Disk drive including a base assembly having a flex-to-board edge connector Shawn E. Casey 2005-08-23 $4,329,000