Scott E. Watson — 21 Patents at Western Digital Technologies

Scott E. Watson has been granted 21 US patents while listed as an inventor at Western Digital Technologies. The first was granted in 1997 and the most recent in September 2015. Scott E. Watson ranks #201,324 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.8%). Patent records list Scott E. Watson in San Jose, CA, US.

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Patent #	Title	Co-Inventors	Date	Approx Value ⓘ
9147436	Slim form factor disk drive comprising disk drive enclosure having an insular raised region	Yau-Shing Lee, Thomas J. Hitchner, David K. Myers	2015-09-29	$19,874,000
9019657	Coined VCM tab to limit cover deflection under pinch load	Daniel Nguyen, Andre Liem, Jonathan M. Garbarino, Joshua P. Weiher	2015-04-28	$16,078,000
8755148	Disk drive with balance plug having longitudinal retainers	Joshua B. Howie, Joshua P. Weiher, Matthew L. Brown	2014-06-17	$13,149,000
8665555	Disk drive with added external labyrinth path during servo track writing	Lionel A. Young, John R. Gustafson, Dana C. Fisher, Brian L. Rappel, Andrew A. Lucas	2014-03-04	$9,161,000
D684025	Asymmetrical trowel	—	2013-06-11
8416534	Disk drive with asymmetric tolerance ring	Baekho Heo, Ryan Schmidt	2013-04-09	$18,322,000
8369044	Disk drive with balance plug having longitudinal retainers	Joshua B. Howie, Joshua P. Weiher, Matthew L. Brown	2013-02-05	$26,103,000
8203806	Disk drive having a head loading/unloading ramp that includes a torsionally-compliant member	Nils E. Larson, John Robert Edwards, David K. Myers, Lidu Huang	2012-06-19	$36,583,000
7957102	Disk drive including an actuator latch with a torsionally compliant pusher portion	Lidu Huang, David K. Myers, Nils E. Larson, Qing Zhang, John Robert Edwards	2011-06-07	$20,722,000
7715149	Disk drive including an actuator latch with a catch portion and a crash stop portion of lesser material stiffness than the catch portion	Michael K. Liebman	2010-05-11	$33,427,000
7684155	Disk drive with an actuator latch having a biasing ball at least partially within a seating cavity adjoining a retention bore	Lidu Huang, Peter G. Robinson	2010-03-23	$18,174,000
7672083	Disk drive with translatable ramp	William Wei Yi Yu, Lidu Huang, Perry E. Hall, Kenneth Allen, Lawrence H. Lo +1 more	2010-03-02	$10,173,000
7044459	Simplified flexural pivot	—	2006-05-16
6757132	Disk drive comprising a snap-on disk clamp	Peter G. Robinson, Aaron D. Little	2004-06-29	$6,039,000
6624980	Disk drive comprising a support member for supporting a flex circuit and having a restraining member for vertically restraining an inertial latch	Serge Hauert	2003-09-23	$12,855,000
6574073	Disk drive comprising a plastic molded crash stop with embedded magnet for latching an actuator arm	Serge Hauert	2003-06-03	$14,029,000
6549381	Disk drive having actuator motion damper via histeresis energy loss of low energy magnet placed within magnetic field of a voice coil motor	—	2003-04-15	$8,298,000
6535358	Disk drive comprising a plastic molded crash stop with embedded magnet for latching an actuator arm	Serge Hauert	2003-03-18	$13,526,000
6344950	Head disk assembly including ramp having pivoting locational features	James M. Pausanos	2002-02-05	$20,644,000
6151197	Water slide suspension assembly having a stiffened vertically offset lift tab	Nils E. Larson, Keith R. Berding	2000-11-21	$10,942,000
5654849	Molded swing-type actuator assembly with press-fit pivot and spring-loaded ground conductor elements	Payman Hassibi, Mark Hathaway, Stephen A. Misuta	1997-08-05	$26,675,000

Scott E. Watson — 21 Patents

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