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Weldon M. Hanson

WT Western Digital Technologies: 28 patents #76 of 3,180Top 3%
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IBM: 6 patents #16,453 of 70,183Top 25%
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54
Patents All Time

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Showing 26–50 of 54 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
10008229 Implementing enhanced track following during read back using head asymmetry metrics in hard disk drives Richard Leo Galbraith, Mark A. Nichols, Alexander Taratorin, Roger William Wood 2018-06-26
9886979 Implementing BER-list modulation code for hard disk drives Richard Leo Galbraith, Iouri Oboukhov, Gary Walker 2018-02-06
9632863 Track error-correcting code extension Richard Leo Galbraith, Roger William Wood 2017-04-25
9437232 Magnetic recording disk drive with write position error signal values written in the data tracks for compensation of track misregistration Richard Leo Galbraith, Roger William Wood 2016-09-06
9361922 Spacing measurement improvement in the presence of track mis-registration Kazuhiro Saito 2016-06-07
9275656 Disk drive with channel and preamp with dynamic write-current control for write head John Contreras, Samir Y. Garzon, Alexander Taratorin 2016-03-01
9218847 System and method for testing data storage systems utilizing micro-transitions Michael Paul Salo, Alexander Taratorin, Roger William Wood 2015-12-22
9111561 Magnetic recording disk drive with write current overshoot amplitude (OSA) responsive to data transitions John Contreras, Samir Y. Garzon, Rehan Ahmed Zakai 2015-08-18
9059737 Disk drive with distributed codeword blocks Jonathan Darrel Coker, Richard Leo Galbraith, Travis Roger Oenning, Roger William Wood 2015-06-16
8988807 Disk drive with different data sector integrated preambles in adjacent data tracks Jonathan Darrel Coker, Richard Leo Galbraith, Travis Roger Oenning, Srinivasan Surendran 2015-03-24
8982491 Disk drive with different synchronization fields and synchronization marks in the data sector preambles in adjacent data tracks Jonathan Darrel Coker, Richard Leo Galbraith, Travis Roger Oenning, Srinivasan Surendran 2015-03-17
8736997 Implementing combined phase and amplitude magnetic defect detection on-the-fly Richard Leo Galbraith, Martin Hassner, Travis Roger Oenning, Satoshi Yamamoto 2014-05-27
8736996 Implementing channel signal processing assist with ECS contact detection Xiaodong Che 2014-05-27
8654464 Implementing magnetic defect classification using phase modulation Richard Leo Galbraith, Martin Hassner, Travis Roger Oenning, Satoshi Yamamoto 2014-02-18
8599973 Detection of synchronization mark from output of matched filter upstream of Viterbi detector Richard Leo Galbraith, Travis Roger Oenning, Todd Carter Truax 2013-12-03
8503125 Channel-source laser-pulsing system architecture for thermal-assisted recording John Contreras, Barry Cushing Stipe, Rehan Ahmed Zakai 2013-08-06
8300342 Multi-bit phase alignment for synchronization mark pattern matching Richard Leo Galbraith, Travis Roger Oenning, Todd Carter Truax 2012-10-30
8276038 Data storage systems Roy D. Cideciyan, Ajay Dholakia, Evangelos S. Eleftheriou, Richard Leo Galbraith, Thomas Mittelholzer +1 more 2012-09-25
7733591 Data storage device with data recovery process using fixed phase clocking for analog-to-digital conversion Kraig Bottemiller, Richard Leo Galbraith, Travis Roger Oenning, Michael J. Ross, Fuminori Sai 2010-06-08
7694205 Method and apparatus for providing a read channel having combined parity and non-parity post processing Roy D. Cideciyan, Ajay Dholakia, Evangelos S. Eleftheriou, Richard Leo Galbraith, Thomas Mittelholzer +1 more 2010-04-06
7424074 Optimizing detector target polynomials in read/write channels to achieve best error rate performance in disk drives Yuan Xing Lee, Richard Leo Galbraith, Travis Roger Oenning 2008-09-09
7395482 Data storage systems Roy D. Cideciyan, Ajay Dholakia, Evangelos S. Eleftheriou, Richard Leo Galbraith, Thomas Mittelholzer +1 more 2008-07-01
7193802 Apparatus for providing dynamic equalizer optimization Roy D. Cideciyan, Ajay Dholakia, Evangelos S. Eleftheriou, Richard Leo Galbraith, Thomas Mittelholzer +3 more 2007-03-20
6937415 Method and apparatus for enhanced data channel performance using read sample buffering Richard Leo Galbraith, Travis Roger Oenning 2005-08-30
6868515 Formatting method and apparatus for a direct access storage device 2005-03-15