Robert E. Eaton — 12 Patents at Western Digital Technologies

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.

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Patent #	Title	Co-Inventors	Date	Approx 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