Scott E. Burton — 16 Patents at Western Digital Technologies

Scott E. Burton has been granted 16 US patents while listed as an inventor at Western Digital Technologies. The first was granted in 1998 and the most recent in October 2025. Scott E. Burton ranks #284,196 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 6.8%). Patent records list Scott E. Burton in Westminster, CO, US.

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Showing 1–16 of 16 patents

Patent #	Title	Co-Inventors	Date	Approx Value ⓘ
12455699	Data storage device with variable containers for logic blocks	—	2025-10-28
12008252	Data storage device with data padding and safe and efficient alignment of data zones with data containers	Daniel J. Wade, Eric B. Smith	2024-06-11	$38,541,000
11941274	Data storage device with variable containers for logic blocks	—	2024-03-26	$10,682,000
11790948	Data storage device with manipulated media mapping to control access latency of data containers	Daniel J. Wade, Eric B. Smith	2023-10-17	$14,541,000
11200911	Data storage device employing partial codeword writes to magnetic media	Gregory B. Thelin, Steven R. Vasquez	2021-12-14	$13,012,000
10910011	Data storage device operated at different spin speeds	Curtis Adam Harper, Paul E. Movall, David R. Hall	2021-02-02	$23,869,000
9959209	Data storage device adjusting command rate profile based on operating mode	Kenny T. Coker, Robert M. Fallone	2018-05-01	$19,941,000
9870281	Power loss mitigation for data storage device	Asif F. Gosla, Chiranjeb Mondal	2018-01-16	$29,787,000
9842622	Data storage device having improved read failure tolerance	Albert Monroe	2017-12-12	$33,479,000
9236086	Methods for reducing operational latency of data storage systems	Asif F. Gosla	2016-01-12	$19,843,000
8898379	Digital component power savings in a host device and method	Christopher J. Squires, Douglas I. McCampbell, Larry J. Koudele, George C. Cope, James B. French, Jr.	2014-11-25
8797669	Disk drive executing rotational position optimization (RPO) algorithm to facilitate a read-modify-write operation	—	2014-08-05	$9,261,000
8578242	Data storage device employing seed array for data path protection	Michael C. Kutas	2013-11-05	$17,846,000
8347030	Digital component power savings in a host device and method	Christopher J. Squires, Douglas I. McCampbell, Larry J. Koudele, George C. Cope, James B. French, Jr.	2013-01-01
7574553	Digital component power savings in a host device and method	Christopher J. Squires, Douglas I. McCampbell, Larry J. Koudele, George C. Cope, James B. French, Jr.	2009-08-11
5710943	Time based data retention in a variable data rate disk drive	Lance R. Carlson, Stephen R. Cornaby	1998-01-20

Scott E. Burton — 16 Patents

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