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Robert E. Eaton — 12 Patents

WTWestern Digital Technologies: 6 patents #554 of 3,180Top 20%
HGHGST: 3 patents #652 of 1,677Top 40%
STSeagate Technology: 1 patents #4,008 of 4,722Top 85%
MAMaxtor: 1 patents #329 of 656Top 55%
IBM: 1 patents #44,878 of 70,183Top 65%
San Jose, CA: #5,425 of 32,062 inventorsTop 20%
California: #51,404 of 386,348 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #396,045 of 4,157,543Top 10%
12 Patents All Time
Robert E. Eaton has been granted 12 US patents while listed as an inventor at Western Digital Technologies. The first was granted in 1997 and the most recent in July 2025. Robert E. Eaton ranks #396,045 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 9.5%). Patent records list Robert E. Eaton in San Jose, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1997 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2010.peak 31997: 1 patents19972007: 1 patents20072010: 3 patents20102012: 1 patents20122015: 1 patents20152016: 1 patents20162017: 2 patents20172020: 1 patents20202025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–12 of 12 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12374362 Harmonic sensor phase error detection for data storage devices — 2025-07-29
10553247 Data storage device calibrating data density based on amplitude-inverted or time-inverted read signal Mark A. Nichols 2020-02-04 $12,138,000
9786309 Data storage device detecting minimum stable fly height of a head over a disk Bernhard E. Knigge, Noureddine Kermiche, Puneet Bhargava 2017-10-10 $15,838,000
9786310 Data storage device detecting lasing threshold of laser by measuring protrusion effect Hans J. Richter, Andreas Moser 2017-10-10 $15,838,000
9361939 Data storage device characterizing geometry of magnetic transitions — 2016-06-07 $14,161,000
9001453 Data storage device calibrating fly height actuator based on read mode touchdown resistance of touchdown sensor Bernhard E. Knigge, Jian Xu, Zhen Z. Ye 2015-04-07 $8,172,000
8238051 Real time monitoring inconsistent operations in a hard disk drive Peter Michael Baumgart, Bernhard E. Knigge 2012-08-07
7808734 Monitoring a fly height of a magnetic transducer Hai Chi Nguy, Jeffrey R. Williams 2010-10-05 $77,000
7705588 Apparatus and method for testing magnetic disk drive components using drive-based parts Gang Herbert Lin, Tao Lin, Amir Ali Companieh, Rob Milby, Ron D. Carroll +1 more 2010-04-27 $12,357,000
7697223 Monitoring a fly height of a magnetic transducer Hai Chi Nguy, Jeffrey R. Williams 2010-04-13 $72,000
7199960 Disk drive with AC exciter for head/disk interface Erhard Schreck 2007-04-03
5661614 Method and apparatus for error recovery for unstable magnetorestrictive heads Albert John Wallash, Richard George Hirko 1997-08-26 $35,141,000

Frequent Collaborators

Bernhard E. Knigge3 shared
Jeffrey R. Williams2 shared
Hai Chi Nguy2 shared
Albert John Wallash1 shared
Jian Xu1 shared
Hans J. Richter1 shared

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