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Nils E. Larson — 26 Patents

WTWestern Digital Technologies: 18 patents #170 of 3,180Top 6%
Apple: 6 patents #4,834 of 18,612Top 30%
UCUnion Carbide: 2 patents #417 of 1,402Top 30%
San Jose, CA: #2,428 of 32,062 inventorsTop 8%
California: #20,975 of 386,348 inventorsTop 6%
Overall (All Time): #150,017 of 4,157,543Top 4%
26 Patents All Time
Nils E. Larson has been granted 26 US patents while listed as an inventor at Western Digital Technologies. The first was granted in 1987 and the most recent in September 2025. Nils E. Larson ranks #150,017 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.6%). Patent records list Nils E. Larson in San Jose, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1987 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2020.peak 41987: 1 patents19871989: 1 patents1998: 3 patents19981999: 1 patents2000: 2 patents20002005: 1 patents2009: 1 patents20092010: 2 patents2011: 1 patents20112012: 2 patents2013: 1 patents20132014: 1 patents2020: 4 patents20202021: 2 patents2023: 1 patents20232025: 2 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 26 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12424368 Haptic actuator 2025-09-23
12405667 Electronic device having a shock-resistant haptic engine David L. Hiemstra 2025-09-02
11694831 Haptic actuator including outwardly extending terminals from first and second housing shells and related methods 2023-07-04
11178226 Integrated erasure coding for data storage and transmission Jun XU, Robert P. Ryan, Grant C. Mackey, James N. Malina, Robin O'Neill 2021-11-16 $23,223,000
10886821 Haptic actuator including thermally coupled heat spreading layer and related methods Jere C. Harrison, Vu A. Hong 2021-01-05 $299,526,000
10877563 Haptic actuator including overmolded field member and related methods 2020-12-29 $213,143,000
10742736 Integrated erasure coding for data storage and transmission Jun XU, Robert P. Ryan, Grant C. Mackey, James N. Malina, Robin O'Neill 2020-08-11 $7,650,000
10719130 Haptic actuator including overmolded field member and related methods 2020-07-21 $151,096,000
10599600 Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) switching for multi-host computing system deployments James A. Risinger, Eric Lee 2020-03-24 $61,609,000
8870507 Wedge based fastener Michael K. Liebman, Jonathan M. Garbarino 2014-10-28 $20,961,000
8416522 Disk drive with stepped motor hub Brian P. Schott 2013-04-09 $18,322,000
8300352 Disk drive having mounting inserts with cantilevered beams John Robert Edwards, David K. Myers 2012-10-30
8203806 Disk drive having a head loading/unloading ramp that includes a torsionally-compliant member John Robert Edwards, David K. Myers, Lidu Huang, Scott E. Watson 2012-06-19 $36,583,000
7957102 Disk drive including an actuator latch with a torsionally compliant pusher portion Scott E. Watson, Lidu Huang, David K. Myers, Qing Zhang, John Robert Edwards 2011-06-07 $20,722,000
7686555 Wedge based fastener Michael K. Liebman, Jonathan M. Garbarino 2010-03-30 $8,346,000
7660075 Disk drive including an actuator latch with a pivot ball in a latch post opening and between a VCM top plate and the latch Jianren Lin, Lidu Huang 2010-02-09 $24,653,000
7633722 Disk drive actuator rotary bearing attachment with cam member Michael K. Liebman, Jonathan M. Garbarino 2009-12-15 $25,813,000
6961212 Shock isolation bearings and travel limit gaps in a spindle motor and disk drive using the same John R. Gustafson, Mats Engwall 2005-11-01 $5,621,000
6151197 Water slide suspension assembly having a stiffened vertically offset lift tab Scott E. Watson, Keith R. Berding 2000-11-21 $10,942,000
6061206 Head stack assembly for a disk drive having a unitary molded plastic E-block Gregory G. Foisy, Sudha Narayan, Ajit Sancheti, John Robert Edwards 2000-05-09 $22,667,000
5862019 Disk drive head actuator fabrication system employing standardized self-aligning modular components 1999-01-19 $15,413,000
5818667 Retaining apparatus for a disk drive actuator assembly electrical flex circuit 1998-10-06 $6,277,000
5781373 Acoustic noise reduction system for a disk drive Ajit Sancheti 1998-07-14 $9,120,000
5757588 Hard disk assembly having a pivot bearing assembly comprising fingers bearing on a shaft 1998-05-26 $23,786,000
4857692 Spray mode gas metal arc welding process David B. Leturno, Lawrence Cherne 1989-08-15 $2,506,000