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Weldon M. Hanson — 56 Patents

WTWestern Digital Technologies: 28 patents #77 of 3,180Top 3%
HBHgst Netherlands, B.V.: 14 patents #42 of 972Top 5%
HGHGST: 6 patents #367 of 1,677Top 25%
IBM: 6 patents #16,491 of 70,183Top 25%
Rochester, MN: #88 of 3,042 inventorsTop 3%
Minnesota: #727 of 52,454 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #44,020 of 4,157,543Top 2%
56 Patents All Time
Weldon M. Hanson has been granted 56 US patents while listed as an inventor at Western Digital Technologies. The first was granted in 1993 and the most recent in November 2025. Weldon M. Hanson ranks #44,020 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.1%). Patent records list Weldon M. Hanson in Rochester, MN, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 56 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12474994 Preprocessing for correcting insertions and deletions in DNA data storage Iouri Oboukhov, Richard Leo Galbraith, Niranjay Ravindran, Jonas Goode 2025-11-18
12445142 Channel circuit with asynchronous sampling from an oversampled analog-to-digital converter Richard Leo Galbraith, Michael J. Ross, John Contreras, Iouri Oboukhov, Niranjay Ravindran +2 more 2025-10-14
12430202 Nested error correction codes for DNA data storage Iouri Oboukhov, Richard Leo Galbraith, Niranjay Ravindran, Jonas Goode 2025-09-30
12399778 Channel circuit with zero force equalizer Richard Leo Galbraith, Pradhan Bellam, Iouri Oboukhov, Niranjay Ravindran, Jonas Goode 2025-08-26
12099409 Adjustable code rates and dynamic ECC in a data storage device Iouri Oboukhov, Derrick E. Burton, Richard Leo Galbraith, Niranjay Ravindran 2024-09-24 $49,386,000
12028091 Adjustable code rates and dynamic ECC in a data storage device with write verification Iouri Oboukhov, Derrick E. Burton, Niranjay Ravindran, Richard Leo Galbraith, Jonas Goode 2024-07-02 $33,124,000
12020733 Sector metrics to estimate health of written data Niranjay Ravindran, Hiroyasu Masuda, David Timothy Flynn, Zarko Popov 2024-06-25 $14,401,000
11948602 Offset spiral data track format for data storage devices Richard Leo Galbraith, Iouri Oboukhov, Niranjay Ravindran, Derrick E. Burton 2024-04-02 $38,332,000
11929093 Overlapping processing of data tracks Niranjay Ravindran, Richard Leo Galbraith, Iouri Oboukhov 2024-03-12 $51,637,000
11811425 Neural network soft information detector in a read channel Iouri Oboukhov, Daniel Bedau, Richard Leo Galbraith, Niranjay Ravindran, Pradhan Bellam 2023-11-07 $9,054,000
11764813 Extendable parity code matrix construction and utilization in a data storage device Iouri Oboukhov, Derrick E. Burton, Richard Leo Galbraith, Niranjay Ravindran 2023-09-19 $12,644,000
11756581 Position and risk reconstruction in shingled magnetic recording data storage devices Alain Chahwan, Niranjay Ravindran 2023-09-12 $8,568,000
11716097 Signal correction using soft information in a data channel Richard Leo Galbraith, Niranjay Ravindran, Iouri Oboukhov, Pradhan Bellam, Henry Yip +1 more 2023-08-01 $24,241,000
11482247 Data storage device with history dependent write boost Guoxiao Guo, Charles A. Park, David Scott C. Amiss, Duc H. Banh, Joey M. Poss 2022-10-25 $8,996,000
11386927 Data storage device synchronizing first channel based on sync mark detected in second channel Derrick E. Burton, Richard Leo Galbraith, Iouri Oboukhov 2022-07-12 $9,261,000
11373682 Data storage device reading data from magnetic tape in forward and reverse direction James N. Malina, Derrick E. Burton 2022-06-28 $10,229,000
11289123 Magnetic recording tape having embedded servo sectors on data tracks Richard Leo Galbraith, Derrick E. Burton, Niranjay Ravindran, Iouri Oboukhov 2022-03-29 $10,725,000
11200912 Data storage device with servo field dependent write boost Guoxiao Guo, Charles A. Park, David Scott C. Amiss, Duc H. Banh, Joey M. Poss 2021-12-14 $13,012,000
11138996 Data storage device employing embedded servo sectors for magnetic tape Richard Leo Galbraith, Derrick E. Burton, Niranjay Ravindran, Iouri Oboukhov 2021-10-05 $15,012,000
11055171 Data storage device employing multi-level parity sectors for data recovery procedure Niranjay Ravindran, Richard Leo Galbraith, David Timothy Flynn, Iouri Oboukhov 2021-07-06 $17,393,000
11049520 Data storage device employing multi-tier coding for magnetic tape Richard Leo Galbraith, Derrick E. Burton, Niranjay Ravindran, Iouri Oboukhov 2021-06-29 $26,019,000
10783913 Data storage device measuring air bearing resonant frequency to calibrate fly height touchdown power Sukumar Rajauria, Erhard Schreck, Yeoungchin Yoon 2020-09-22 $19,280,000
10748567 Data storage device aborting write operation based on accumulated track squeeze metric for adjacent data track Hideki Zaitsu, Niranjay Ravindran, So Ogiwara, Toshihisa Komai, Alain Chahwan 2020-08-18 $13,062,000
10606699 Data storage device employing multi-level parity sectors for data recovery procedure Iouri Oboukhov, Niranjay Ravindran, David Timothy Flynn 2020-03-31 $25,352,000
10530390 Data storage device employing memory efficient processing of un-converged codewords Iouri Oboukhov, Niranjay Ravindran, Richard Leo Galbraith 2020-01-07 $21,069,000