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Western Digital Technologies, Inc.

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5,286Patents
4,771Active
5,286Granted
66Portfolio score

Filing activity: Mar 11, 1997 → Sep 19, 2024 · 405 expiring within 5 years

Most-cited patents

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US8769232B2 Non-volatile semiconductor memory module enabling out of order host command chunk media access Physics 295 Active
US8443167B1 Data storage device employing a run-length mapping table and a single address mapping table Physics 253 Active
US6405342B1 Disk drive employing a multiple-input sequence detector responsive to reliability metrics to improve a retry operation Physics 246 Expired
US7546353B2 Managed peer-to-peer applications, systems and methods for distributed data access and storage Electricity 245 Expired
US8707104B1 Systems and methods for error injection in data storage systems Physics 243 Active
US7136244B1 Disk drive employing data averaging techniques during retry operations to facilitate data recovery Physics 238 Expired
US8700834B2 Systems and methods for an enhanced controller architecture in data storage systems Physics 234 Active
US6490635B1 Conflict detection for queued command handling in disk drive controller Physics 230 Expired
US6603622B1 Disk drive employing a sync mark detector comprising a matched filter and a dual polarity correlator Physics 217 Expired
US6411452B1 Disk drive employing read error tolerant sync mark detection Physics 216 Expired
US6408406B1 Hard disk drive infant mortality test Physics 214 Expired
US7949564B1 System and method of receiving advertisement content from advertisers and distributing the advertising content to a network of personal computers Physics 214 Active
US6976190B1 Serial ATA disk drive having a parallel ATA test interface and method Physics 210 Expired
US8638602B1 Background selection of voltage reference values for performing memory read operations Physics 207 Active
US8341339B1 Hybrid drive garbage collecting a non-volatile semiconductor memory by migrating valid data to a disk Physics 204 Active
US8254172B1 Wear leveling non-volatile semiconductor memory based on erase times and program times Physics 204 Active
US8612804B1 System and method for improving wear-leveling performance in solid-state memory Physics 202 Active
US8014094B1 Disk drive expediting defect scan when quality metric exceeds a more stringent threshold Physics 201 Active
US8635412B1 Inter-processor communication Physics 201 Active
US6832929B2 Robust serial advanced technology attachment (SATA) PCB connector Electricity 201 Expired
US8713357B1 Systems and methods for detailed error reporting in data storage systems Physics 198 Active
US6968450B1 Disk drive caching initial host requested data in non-volatile semiconductor memory to reduce start-up time of a host computer Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 198 Expired
US10019741B2 Methods and systems for a personal multimedia content archive Physics 197 Active
US7126776B1 Disk drive having a sector clock that is synchronized to the angular speed of the spindle motor Physics 195 Expired
US6811427B2 Robust serial advanced technology attachment (SATA) cable connector Electricity 194 Expired

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Counts and citation impact are objective bibliographic measures.