Bruce Schardt
13Patents
9h-index
51Co-inventors
67Inventor score
Filing activity: Aug 2, 2002 → Feb 16, 2011
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US8699172B1 | Disk drive generating off-track read capability for a plurality of track segments | Physics | 133 | Active |
| US7324299B1 | Disk drive that positions a head at multiple head-to-disk spacings | Physics | 34 | Expired |
| US7345837B1 | Disk drive that refreshes data on portions of a disk based on a number of write operations thereto | Physics | 26 | Expired |
| US6987630B1 | Method and apparatus for media thermal decay measurement in a disk drive | Physics | 22 | Expired |
| US7362534B1 | System for detecting a change in head-to-disk contact status in a disk drive | Physics | 22 | Expired |
| US7092193B1 | Dynamically adjustable head disk spacing slider using thermal expansion | Physics | 19 | Expired |
| US7388726B1 | Dynamically adjustable head disk spacing slider using thermal expansion | Physics | 15 | Active |
| US8065481B1 | RAID system and method compatible with improved drive select | Physics | 11 | Active |
| US7486459B1 | Disk drive with performance driven head-to-disk spacing | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 11 | Active |
| US7310194B1 | System for monitoring and dynamically adjusting head-to-disk spacing in a disk drive | Physics | 8 | Expired |
| US7509728B1 | Method for adjusting head-to-disk spacing in a disk drive | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 6 | Expired |
| US7310195B1 | System and method for adjusting head-to-disk spacing in a disk drive | Physics | 3 | Expired |
| US7558015B2 | Actuation efficiency based contact detection | Physics | 0 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.