Inventor · Lake Forest, CA, US

Carl E. Barlow

20Patents
11h-index
44Co-inventors
71Inventor score

Filing activity: Oct 14, 2005 → May 19, 2015

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US8271692B1 Throttled command completion time Physics 153 Active
US8116025B1 Disk drive executing retry operation after adjusting jog value in response to gain control Physics 144 Active
US7982993B1 Disk drive employing different servo TPI to data TPI ratios across the disk surface Physics 142 Active
US8320067B1 Refresh operations using write/read commands Physics 140 Active
US8004785B1 Disk drive write verifying unformatted data sectors Physics 137 Active
US7933087B1 Disk drive storing parameters of a write operation in a plurality of data sectors Physics 133 Active
US7212374B1 Disk drive to characterize misaligned servo wedges Physics 116 Expired
US8694841B1 Methods and devices for preventing potential media errors from growing thermal asperities Physics 72 Active
US8797667B1 Disk drive calibrating bias signal for touchdown sensor Physics 52 Active
US9025269B1 Disk drive compensating for cycle slip of disk locked clock when reading mini-wedge Physics 16 Active
US9383923B1 Write pointer management for a disk drive Physics 12 Active
US9075714B1 Electronic system with data management mechanism and method of operation thereof Physics 7 Active
US9269393B1 Electronic system with data refresh mechanism and method of operation thereof Physics 5 Active
US9053747B1 Disk drive calibrating failure threshold based on noise power effect on failure detection metric Physics 4 Active
US9036283B1 Data storage device with selective write to a first storage media or a second storage media Physics 4 Active
US9202517B1 Disk drive calibrating defect threshold based on statistical quality metric measured for reference tracks Physics 3 Active
US9298380B1 Data storage device with selective write to a first storage media or a second storage media Physics 2 Active
US9117489B1 Data storage device screening heads by verifying defects after defect scan Physics 2 Active
US8902533B1 Disk drive detecting different asperities on a disk using different sensor bias settings Physics 1 Active
US9251823B1 Data storage device delaying seek operation to avoid thermal asperities Physics 1 Active

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