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WESTERN DIGITAL CORP

Overview
  • Total Patents
    320
  • GoodIP Patent Rank
    213,950
About

WESTERN DIGITAL CORP has a total of 320 patent applications. Its first patent ever was published in 1974. It filed its patents most often in United States, Japan and Germany. Its main competitors in its focus markets audio-visual technology, basic communication technologies and computer technology are SILENT SYSTEMS INC, HGST Netherlands BV and TANDON CORP.

Patent filings per year

Chart showing WESTERN DIGITAL CORPs patent filings per year from 1900 to 2020

Top inventors

# Name Total Patents
#1 Ouyang Kenneth W 39
#2 Lofgren Karl M J 24
#3 Hull Richard W 17
#4 Sokolov Daniel John 14
#5 Shearer Gerald W 13
#6 Hoge Carl E 11
#7 Bonke Carl 11
#8 Chung Randall M 11
#9 Codilian Raffi 10
#10 Patterson Timothy P 10

Latest patents

Publication Filing date Title
US2020174864A1 Extending the error correction capability of a device using a neural network
CN106340316A Disk drive with air filling port by means of valve with cup-shaped far end
US6771468B1 Slider with high pitch-stiffness air bearing design
US6281652B1 Method of using two low-resolution DACS for converting high-resolution digital demands into analog output signals that monotonically drive an actuator motor in a disk drive
US6208486B1 Spindle motor flange land portion
US6271604B1 Integrated computer module having a data integrity latch
US6263459B1 On the fly write reallocation
US6049973A Method of assembling an integrated computer module
US6256695B1 Disk drive method of determining SCSI bus state information after a SCSI bus reset condition
US6104153A Disk drive employing method of spinning down its spindle motor to reduce the time required for spinning it down and subsequently spinning it up
US6215616B1 Disk drive spindle motor with wire guide insert
US6151197A Water slide suspension assembly having a stiffened vertically offset lift tab
US6185074B1 Inertial latch having an interposer that prevents the head from leaving the ramp load during a shock event
US6151189A Disk drive spindle motor with embedded ionizing source for static charge dissipation
US6205494B1 Controller with automatic generation of linked list of data transfer descriptors for sequential commands, with linked list being used for execution of sequential data transfers
US5965992A Charging capacitor during track following in disk drive to provide increased VCM voltage during a seek
US6094020A Disk drive utilizing Bemf of spindle motor to increase VCM voltage during seeks
US6195222B1 Disk drive with seek profile selection based on a queued vs. non-queued environment
US6052076A Digital-to-analog converter having high resolution and high bandwidth
US6046889A Disk drive having a pivot assembly which defines a knife edge facing in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of an actuator arm