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Assignee profile:

Western Digital Technologies, Inc.

City:

Lake Forest, California

Country:

United States

Published Applications:

502

Last publication date:

2017-02-07

Patent Grants:

497

Last grant date:

2017-02-07

Quarterly Western Digital Technologies, Inc. Patent Applications

Top Inventors for applications by Western Digital Technologies, Inc.

These are the the leading inventors for applications assigned to Western Digital Technologies, Inc.:

Recent patent applications by Western Digital Technologies, Inc.

Western Digital Technologies, Inc. based in Lake Forest, US has been assigned the rights to these inventions. The list includes both Pending Applications and Patent Grants:

#1 | 2017-02-07 ✅ Patent 9,563,397 granted on 2017-02-07
US12774643
Physics

Disk drive using non-volatile cache when garbage collecting log structured writes

 #2 | 2013-04-02 ✅ Patent 8,413,010 granted on 2013-04-02
US12403257
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Data storage device employing high quality metrics when decoding logical block address appended to a data sector

 #3 | 2012-11-08 ✅ Patent 9,049,471 granted on 2015-06-02
US20120281963A1
Electricity

Personal video recorder for inserting a stored advertisement into a displayed broadcast stream

 #4 | 2012-04-05 ✅ Patent 8,369,073 granted on 2013-02-05
US20120081851A1
Physics

Systems and methods for connecting multiple hard drives

 #5 | 2012-02-09 ✅ Patent 10,019,741 granted on 2018-07-10
US20120036041A1
Physics

Methods and systems for a personal multimedia content archive

 #6 | 2012-01-05 ✅ Patent 8,369,044 granted on 2013-02-05
US20120002324A1
Physics

Disk drive with balance plug having longitudinal retainers

 #7 | 2011-12-29 ✅ Patent 8,339,748 granted on 2012-12-25
US20110317309A1
Physics

Suspension assembly having a microactuator bonded to a flexure

 #8 | 2011-12-01 ✅ Patent 8,390,948 granted on 2013-03-05
US20110292534A1
Physics

Disk drive employing a preamp comprising read/write pass throughs for cascading integrated circuits

 #9 | 2011-11-17 ✅ Patent 9,026,716 granted on 2015-05-05
US20110283049A1
Physics

System and method for managing garbage collection in solid-state memory

 #10 | 2011-11-03 ✅ Patent 8,631,284 granted on 2014-01-14
US20110271151A1
Physics

Method for providing asynchronous event notification in systems

 #11 | 2011-09-22 ✅ Patent 8,542,465 granted on 2013-09-24
US20110228425A1
Physics

Suspension assembly having a microactuator electrically connected to a gold coating on a stainless steel surface

 #12 | 2011-09-01
US20110212281A1
Physics

DISK DRIVE HAVING A CONFORMAL LAMINATED COVER SEAL ADHERED A TOP FACE AND FOUR SIDE FACES OF A HELIUM-FILLED ENCLOSURE

 #13 | 2011-09-01 ✅ Patent 8,194,348 granted on 2012-06-05
US20110211279A1
Physics

Sealed laminated electrical connector for helium filled disk drive

 #14 | 2011-06-23 ✅ Patent 8,458,526 granted on 2013-06-04
US20110154113A1
Physics

Data storage device tester

 #15 | 2011-06-23 ✅ Patent 8,626,463 granted on 2014-01-07
US20110154112A1
Physics

Data storage device tester

 #16 | 2011-06-23 ✅ Patent 8,526,798 granted on 2013-09-03
US20110150436A1
Electricity

Portable content container displaying A/V files in response to a command received from a consumer device

 #17 | 2011-06-23 ✅ Patent 8,332,695 granted on 2012-12-11
US20110149424A1
Physics

Data storage device tester

 #18 | 2011-05-19 ✅ Patent 8,255,661 granted on 2012-08-28
US20110119464A1
Physics

Data storage system comprising a mapping bridge for aligning host block size with physical block size of a data storage device

 #19 | 2011-05-05 ✅ Patent 8,261,012 granted on 2012-09-04
US20110107012A1
Physics

Non-volatile semiconductor memory comprising power fail circuitry for flushing write data in response to a power fail signal

 #20 | 2011-04-28 ✅ Patent 9,753,847 granted on 2017-09-05
US20110099323A1
Physics

Non-volatile semiconductor memory segregating sequential, random, and system data to reduce garbage collection for page based mapping

 #21 | 2011-03-03 ✅ Patent 8,462,466 granted on 2013-06-11
US20110051292A1
Physics

Disk drive comprising impedance discontinuity compensation for interconnect transmission lines

 #22 | 2011-03-01 ✅ Patent 7,898,756 granted on 2011-03-01
US12178474
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Disk drive adapting target values of a sequence detector relative to bit error rate of the sequence detector

 #23 | 2011-03-01 ✅ Patent 7,900,037 granted on 2011-03-01
US12030074
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Disk drive maintaining multiple logs to expedite boot operation for a host computer

 #24 | 2011-02-24 ✅ Patent 8,247,095 granted on 2012-08-21
US20110043941A1
Physics

Energy assisted discrete track media with heat sink

 #25 | 2011-02-03 ✅ Patent 7,974,029 granted on 2011-07-05
US20110026159A1
Physics

Disk drive biasing refresh zone counters based on write commands

 #26 | 2011-01-25 ✅ Patent 7,874,424 granted on 2011-01-25
US12685564
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Disk pack balancing station

 #27 | 2011-01-25 ✅ Patent 7,876,523 granted on 2011-01-25
US12537974
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Disk drive initializing position feedforward compensation with velocity feedforward compensation

 #28 | 2011-01-25 ✅ Patent 7,876,522 granted on 2011-01-25
US12241814
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Disk drive updating estimate of voice coil resistance to account for resistance change prior to unload operation

 #29 | 2011-01-18 ✅ Patent 7,872,822 granted on 2011-01-18
US11768288
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Disk drive refreshing zones based on serpentine access of disk surfaces

 #30 | 2011-01-11 ✅ Patent 7,869,183 granted on 2011-01-11
US12356204
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Static electricity monitoring device comprising a first footpad electrically insulated from a second footpad

 #31 | 2011-01-11 ✅ Patent 7,869,155 granted on 2011-01-11
US11760601
-

Ramp detection during servo-writing of a disk for a disk drive

 #32 | 2011-01-11 ✅ Patent 7,869,182 granted on 2011-01-11
US11637527
-

Monitoring device for use with an insulated dual portion garment

 #33 | 2011-01-04 ✅ Patent 7,864,482 granted on 2011-01-04
US12394406
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Disk drive calibrating VCM notch filter by increasing the width and/or the depth of the notch

 #34 | 2011-01-04 ✅ Patent 7,864,481 granted on 2011-01-04
US12359979
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Evaluating distribution of peak signals representing reference track crossings to compensate for thermal expansion when writing spiral tracks to a disk

 #35 | 2011-01-04 ✅ Patent 7,864,488 granted on 2011-01-04
US11717299
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Suspension assembly including a dimple that contacts a flexure tongue dielectric layer through a hole in a flexure tongue structural layer

 #36 | 2011-01-04 ✅ Patent 7,863,889 granted on 2011-01-04
US11703001
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Component receptacle to segregate components

 #37 | 2010-12-28 ✅ Patent 7,859,782 granted on 2010-12-28
US12122707
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Selecting highest reliability sync mark in a sync mark window of a spiral servo track crossing

 #38 | 2010-12-16 ✅ Patent 8,064,194 granted on 2011-11-22
US20100315923A1
Physics

Mechanically decoupled status lens

 #39 | 2010-12-14 ✅ Patent 7,852,588 granted on 2010-12-14
US12144015
-

Disk drive adjusting gain of shock detector relative to resonant frequency amplitude

 #40 | 2010-12-14 ✅ Patent 7,852,592 granted on 2010-12-14
US12021976
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Spiral slope approximation of spiral patterns written to a disk of a disk drive

 #41 | 2010-12-14 ✅ Patent 7,852,601 granted on 2010-12-14
US11582791
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Radial top cover gasket for disk drives

 #42 | 2010-12-02 ✅ Patent 8,838,995 granted on 2014-09-16
US20100306551A1
Physics

Physically modifying a data storage device to disable access to secure data and repurpose the data storage device

 #43 | 2010-11-30 ✅ Patent 7,843,660 granted on 2010-11-30
US12277587
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Disk drive adjusting erasure window based on a number of non-read data sectors during a retry operation

 #44 | 2010-11-30 ✅ Patent 7,843,662 granted on 2010-11-30
US12136207
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Servoing on concentric servo sectors of a first disk surface to write a spiral servo track to a second disk surface

 #45 | 2010-11-23 ✅ Patent 7,839,600 granted on 2010-11-23
US12434979
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Disk drive employing data-based basis function expansion for tuning seek servo loop

 #46 | 2010-11-23 ✅ Patent 7,839,588 granted on 2010-11-23
US12122710
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Method of alternating track write for defect identification

 #47 | 2010-11-23 ✅ Patent 7,839,591 granted on 2010-11-23
US12028974
-

Disk drive comprising index spiral track identified by change in sync mark

 #48 | 2010-11-23 ✅ Patent 7,839,595 granted on 2010-11-23
US12020432
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Feed forward compensation for fly height control in a disk drive

 #49 | 2010-11-02 ✅ Patent 7,827,320 granted on 2010-11-02
US12058572
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Serial ATA device implementing intra-command processing by detecting XRDY primitive while in the XRDY state

 #50 | 2010-11-02 ✅ Patent 7,826,177 granted on 2010-11-02
US11582794
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Flexure having arms with reduced centroid offset for supporting a head in a disk drive

 #51 | 2010-09-30 ✅ Patent 10,079,048 granted on 2018-09-18
US20100250793A1
Physics

Adjusting access of non-volatile semiconductor memory based on access time

 #52 | 2010-09-28 ✅ Patent 7,804,657 granted on 2010-09-28
US11761224
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Setting an operating bias current for a magnetoresistive head using ratio of target voltage and measured voltage

 #53 | 2010-09-21 ✅ Patent 7,800,857 granted on 2010-09-21
US12433572
-

Disk drive calibrating voice coil resistance for velocity control of voice coil motor

 #54 | 2010-09-21 ✅ Patent 7,800,856 granted on 2010-09-21
US12410338
-

Disk drive flushing write cache to a nearest set of reserved tracks during a power failure

 #55 | 2010-09-21 ✅ Patent 7,800,853 granted on 2010-09-21
US12327560
-

Correcting servo sectors in a disk drive

 #56 | 2010-08-26 ✅ Patent 7,852,596 granted on 2010-12-14
US20100214682A1
Physics

Disk drive returning dummy data to a host when reading an unwritten data sector

 #57 | 2010-08-03 ✅ Patent 7,768,776 granted on 2010-08-03
US12253520
-

Disk drive enclosure with a sliding door having tabs with adjacent through-slots

 #58 | 2010-07-20 ✅ Patent 7,760,461 granted on 2010-07-20
US12277099
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Disk drive employing coarse position feedback from mechanical position sensor to improve format efficiency

 #59 | 2010-07-20 ✅ Patent 7,760,458 granted on 2010-07-20
US12190512
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Disk drive adjusting head bias during servo synchronization to compensate for over/under sensitivity

 #60 | 2010-07-06 ✅ Patent 7,751,145 granted on 2010-07-06
US11652960
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Disk drive with air channel

 #61 | 2010-06-29 ✅ Patent 7,743,486 granted on 2010-06-29
US12470345
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Method for assembling a head stack assembly with a disk drive base utilizing a tooling mandrel

 #62 | 2010-06-29 ✅ Patent 7,746,592 granted on 2010-06-29
US12371434
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Disk drive detecting defective spiral servo track

 #63 | 2010-06-29 ✅ Patent 7,746,594 granted on 2010-06-29
US12240374
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Disk drive comprising slanted line servo burst sets offset radially

 #64 | 2010-06-29 ✅ Patent 7,746,595 granted on 2010-06-29
US12240254
-

Disk drive comprising slanted line servo bursts having reverse polarity segments

 #65 | 2010-06-10 ✅ Patent 8,285,923 granted on 2012-10-09
US20100146203A1
Physics

Disk drive and method using native command queuing tags to identify logical block size and implement protection information

 #66 | 2010-06-08 ✅ Patent 7,733,189 granted on 2010-06-08
US11855848
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Oscillator comprising foldover detection

 #67 | 2010-06-01 ✅ Patent 7,729,079 granted on 2010-06-01
US12356701
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Disk drive estimating fly height using a PLL tuned by a fly height capacitance

 #68 | 2010-06-01 ✅ Patent 7,729,089 granted on 2010-06-01
US11580542
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Head-gimbal assembly including a flexure tongue with stand-offs arranged to facilitate lateral light entry

 #69 | 2010-06-01 ✅ Patent 7,730,295 granted on 2010-06-01
US11515554
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Updating firmware of a peripheral device

 #70 | 2010-06-01 ✅ Patent 7,729,091 granted on 2010-06-01
US11294732
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Clip for mounting a flex cable within a head stack assembly

 #71 | 2010-05-25 ✅ Patent 7,724,461 granted on 2010-05-25
US11963497
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Determining head non-linearity in a disk drive

 #72 | 2010-05-11 ✅ Patent 7,715,138 granted on 2010-05-11
US11943457
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Disk drive estimating a servo zone after synchronously detecting a servo sync mark

 #73 | 2010-05-11 ✅ Patent 7,715,149 granted on 2010-05-11
US11345141
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Disk drive including an actuator latch with a catch portion and a crash stop portion of lesser material stiffness than the catch portion

 #74 | 2010-05-06
US20100108256A1
Performing operations; transporting

CLOSED LOOP CONTROL OF ADHESIVE DOT CHARACTERISTICS

 #75 | 2010-05-04 ✅ Patent 7,710,676 granted on 2010-05-04
US12057213
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Disk drive comprising gray code implemented with servo bursts

 #76 | 2010-05-04 ✅ Patent 7,709,078 granted on 2010-05-04
US11607716
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Disk drive housing hole seal including a conductive layer with an exposed planar surface region

 #77 | 2010-04-20 ✅ Patent 7,701,661 granted on 2010-04-20
US12277040
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Disk drive employing coarse position feedback from mechanical position sensor to improve format efficiency

 #78 | 2010-04-20 ✅ Patent 7,701,705 granted on 2010-04-20
US11953782
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Information storage device with sheet metal projections and elastomeric inserts

 #79 | 2010-04-13 ✅ Patent 7,697,233 granted on 2010-04-13
US12255542
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Disk drive comprising a servo accelerator implementing state space equations for a plurality of task objects

 #80 | 2010-04-06 ✅ Patent 7,690,705 granted on 2010-04-06
US11644404
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Vacuum chuck useful for affixing cover seals to hard disk drives

 #81 | 2010-03-30 ✅ Patent 7,688,534 granted on 2010-03-30
US12333016
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Extracting repeatable phase error from a spindle motor back EMF signal to generate a servo write clock

 #82 | 2010-03-30 ✅ Patent 7,688,539 granted on 2010-03-30
US12120456
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Disk drive self servo writing spiral tracks by propagating bursts

 #83 | 2010-03-30 ✅ Patent 7,688,540 granted on 2010-03-30
US11957616
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Disk drive selecting TPI profile by estimating head geometry

 #84 | 2010-03-30 ✅ Patent 7,688,538 granted on 2010-03-30
US11941467
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Disk drive comprising a disk surface having track addresses of varying width

 #85 | 2010-03-30 ✅ Patent 7,686,555 granted on 2010-03-30
US11703003
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Wedge based fastener

 #86 | 2010-03-23 ✅ Patent 7,684,155 granted on 2010-03-23
US11650276
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Disk drive with an actuator latch having a biasing ball at least partially within a seating cavity adjoining a retention bore

 #87 | 2010-03-18 ✅ Patent 7,940,491 granted on 2011-05-10
US20100067344A1
Physics

Information storage device having a disk drive and a bridge controller PCB within a monolithic conductive nest

 #88 | 2010-03-16 ✅ Patent 7,679,854 granted on 2010-03-16
US12260919
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Head switch operation for a disk drive

 #89 | 2010-03-09 ✅ Patent 7,675,707 granted on 2010-03-09
US12275989
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Disk drive employing repeatable disturbance compensation for fly height control

 #90 | 2010-03-09 ✅ Patent 7,673,638 granted on 2010-03-09
US11454734
-

System and method to monitor particles removed from a component

 #91 | 2010-03-04 ✅ Patent 7,907,364 granted on 2011-03-15
US20100053796A1
Physics

Disk drive including a delay circuit to provide a delayed reset signal

 #92 | 2010-03-02 ✅ Patent 7,672,072 granted on 2010-03-02
US11769411
-

Disk drive modifying an update function for a refresh monitor in response to a measured duration

 #93 | 2010-03-02 ✅ Patent 7,671,599 granted on 2010-03-02
US11700427
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Static electricity monitor comprising a walking footpad electrode and handrail electrode

 #94 | 2010-03-02 ✅ Patent 7,672,083 granted on 2010-03-02
US11352534
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Disk drive with translatable ramp

 #95 | 2010-03-02 ✅ Patent 7,669,711 granted on 2010-03-02
US11253349
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Disk pack balancing station

 #96 | 2010-03-02 ✅ Patent 7,673,075 granted on 2010-03-02
US11131036
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Pass-through information transfers in serial communications between a device and a host

 #97 | 2010-02-16 ✅ Patent 7,663,835 granted on 2010-02-16
US11770554
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System and method for identifying track squeeze errors (TSEs) of a disk of a disk drive

 #98 | 2010-02-09 ✅ Patent 7,660,067 granted on 2010-02-09
US11857739
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Disk drive initializing a coil temperature estimation algorithm using a resistance of the coil estimated during a load operation

 #99 | 2010-02-09 ✅ Patent 7,660,075 granted on 2010-02-09
US11345354
-

Disk drive including an actuator latch with a pivot ball in a latch post opening and between a VCM top plate and the latch

 #100 | 2010-02-02 ✅ Patent 7,656,607 granted on 2010-02-02
US12255453
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Disk drive comprising a servo accelerator employing a dual state variable memory
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