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Robert M. Fallone — 24 Patents

WTWestern Digital Technologies: 24 patents #96 of 3,180Top 4%
Newport Beach, CA: #79 of 1,653 inventorsTop 5%
California: #23,266 of 386,348 inventorsTop 7%
Overall (All Time): #168,038 of 4,157,543Top 5%
24 Patents All Time
Robert M. Fallone has been granted 24 US patents while listed as an inventor at Western Digital Technologies. The first was granted in 2011 and the most recent in November 2018. Robert M. Fallone ranks #168,038 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.0%). Patent records list Robert M. Fallone in Newport Beach, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2011 to 2018Bar chart with a peak of 6 patents in 2016.peak 62011: 2 patents20112012: 1 patents20122013: 5 patents20132014: 3 patents20142015: 5 patents20152016: 6 patents20162018: 2 patents2018

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–24 of 24 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10140067 Data management for data storage device with multiple types of non-volatile memory media Robert L. Horn, David N. Steffen 2018-11-27 $50,859,000
9959209 Data storage device adjusting command rate profile based on operating mode Scott E. Burton, Kenny T. Coker 2018-05-01 $19,941,000
9405668 Data storage device initialization information accessed by searching for pointer information David M. Hamilton 2016-08-02 $11,492,000
9383923 Write pointer management for a disk drive James N. Malina, Joo Peng Teh, Sang Huynh, Carl E. Barlow, William B. Boyle +4 more 2016-07-05 $22,323,000
9286079 Cache optimization of a data storage device based on progress of boot commands Thomas Anthony Roden 2016-03-15 $10,414,000
9268499 Hybrid drive migrating high workload data from disk to non-volatile semiconductor memory Virgil V. Wilkins, Alan T. Meyer, William B. Boyle 2016-02-23 $5,909,000
9268649 Disk drive with recent write streams list for data refresh determination Edwin S. Olds 2016-02-23 $5,909,000
9263088 Data management for a data storage device using a last resort zone Alec Parken, Teik Ee Yeo 2016-02-16 $13,299,000
9189392 Opportunistic defragmentation during garbage collection Srinivas Neppalli, William B. Boyle 2015-11-17 $9,730,000
9129628 Data management for data storage device with different track density regions William B. Boyle 2015-09-08 $16,707,000
9063838 Data storage device shifting data chunks of alignment zone relative to sector boundaries William B. Boyle, Kai Ling Lee, Sang Huynh, Ayberk Ozturk, Billy Rickey +1 more 2015-06-23 $6,251,000
9003101 Prioritized access for media with heterogeneous access rates William B. Boyle 2015-04-07 $8,172,000
8996839 Data storage device aligning partition to boundary of sector when partition offset correlates with offset of write commands William B. Boyle, Kai Ling Lee, Sang Huynh, Ayberk Ozturk, Billy Rickey +1 more 2015-03-31 $9,047,000
8819367 Accelerated translation power recovery William B. Boyle 2014-08-26 $17,330,000
8775720 Hybrid drive balancing execution times for non-volatile semiconductor memory and disk Alan T. Meyer, William B. Boyle, Mei-Man L. Syu, Virgil V. Wilkins 2014-07-08 $12,758,000
8706985 System and method for optimizing garbage collection in data storage William B. Boyle 2014-04-22 $15,910,000
8599510 Disk drive adjusting data track density based on write condition when writing to contiguous data tracks 2013-12-03 $9,877,000
8531791 Methods for adaptive throttling of data refresh operations and disk drives implementing the same Bruce E. Reid, Kaustubh S. Patkar 2013-09-10 $16,083,000
8521972 System and method for optimizing garbage collection in data storage William B. Boyle 2013-08-27 $11,136,000
8443167 Data storage device employing a run-length mapping table and a single address mapping table William B. Boyle 2013-05-14 $22,464,000
8370683 System and method to reduce write splice failures Robert P. Ryan 2013-02-05 $26,103,000
8194340 Disk drive framing write data with in-line mapping data during write operations William B. Boyle 2012-06-05 $8,294,000
8082433 Disk drive employing boot disk space to expedite the boot operation for a host computer William B. Boyle 2011-12-20 $10,835,000
7900037 Disk drive maintaining multiple logs to expedite boot operation for a host computer William B. Boyle, Young Hwa Lee 2011-03-01 $10,740,000