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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Sept 30, 2025
WB

William B. Boyle

WTWestern Digital Technologies: 66 patents #11 of 3,180Top 1%
KMKeen Personal Media: 18 patents #1 of 14Top 8%
KTKeen Personal Technologies: 13 patents #1 of 6Top 20%
STSandisk Technologies: 3 patents #751 of 2,224Top 35%
IBM: 1 patents #44,794 of 70,183Top 65%
Lake Forest, CA: #11 of 1,030 inventorsTop 2%
California: #2,793 of 386,348 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #18,226 of 4,157,543Top 1%
89 Patents All Time

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 51–75 of 89 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
8194341 Disk drive seeding data path protection with system data seed 2012-06-05
8194340 Disk drive framing write data with in-line mapping data during write operations Robert M. Fallone 2012-06-05
8174780 Disk drive biasing a refresh monitor with write parameter of a write operation Chun Sei Tsai, Michael S. Rothberg 2012-05-08
8154812 Condensing a defect scan log for a disk of a disk drive Srinivas Neppalli 2012-04-10
8082433 Disk drive employing boot disk space to expedite the boot operation for a host computer Robert M. Fallone 2011-12-20
8040625 Condensing a defect scan log for a disk of a disk drive Srinivas Neppalli 2011-10-18
8004785 Disk drive write verifying unformatted data sectors Chun Sei Tsai, Carl E. Barlow, Kenneth J. Smith 2011-08-23
7982993 Disk drive employing different servo TPI to data TPI ratios across the disk surface Chun Sei Tsai, Carl E. Barlow 2011-07-19
7945727 Disk drive refreshing zones in segments to sustain target throughput of host commands Michael S. Rothberg, Chun Sei Tsai 2011-05-17
7933087 Disk drive storing parameters of a write operation in a plurality of data sectors Chun Sei Tsai, Carl E. Barlow 2011-04-26
7929234 Disk drive prioritizing in-the-field defect scanning based on number of write operations in each of a plurality of defect zones Chun Sei Tsai, Anthony L. Pei 2011-04-19
7907364 Disk drive including a delay circuit to provide a delayed reset signal Robert P. Ryan 2011-03-15
7900037 Disk drive maintaining multiple logs to expedite boot operation for a host computer Robert M. Fallone, Young Hwa Lee 2011-03-01
7852596 Disk drive returning dummy data to a host when reading an unwritten data sector Chun Sei Tsai 2010-12-14
7672072 Disk drive modifying an update function for a refresh monitor in response to a measured duration Michael S. Rothberg 2010-03-02
7657149 Method and apparatus for storing a stream of video data on a storage medium 2010-02-02
7649704 Disk drive deferring refresh based on environmental conditions Marc A. Bombet 2010-01-19
7599139 Disk drive having a high performance access mode and a lower performance archive mode Marc A. Bombet 2009-10-06
7526184 Video recording system utilizing external video storage to record streaming video data via an isochronous interface Ronald G. Parkinen 2009-04-28
7325244 Displaying a program guide responsive to electronic program guide data and program recording indicators William Pat Price 2008-01-29
7292775 Communicating program identifiers from a digital video recorder (DVR) to a set top box (STB) independent of when the STB demodulates the associated program data William Pat Price, Timothy Elliott 2007-11-06
7240161 Instruction prefetch caching for remote memory 2007-07-03
7206497 Electronic program guide subsystem for receiving and processing electronic program guide information from a set-top box Tim Elliott 2007-04-17
7194576 Fetch operations in a disk drive control system 2007-03-20
7146094 Set-top box that provides video data stream to a display device based on selection between recorded video signal received from the digital video recorder and a real-time video signal 2006-12-05