David L. Swanson
38Patents
7h-index
36Co-inventors
69Inventor score
Filing activity: Jan 4, 2002 → Nov 7, 2023
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US7676445B2 | Apparatus, system and method for developing failure prediction software | Physics | 28 | Active |
| US6831805B2 | Apparatus and method to read and/or write information to a magnetic tape medium | Physics | 21 | Expired |
| US6798608B2 | Active detection and acquisition of a servo track subject to lateral motion | Physics | 19 | Expired |
| US6903895B2 | Tape drive servo operation by use of servo pattern width measurements | Physics | 13 | Expired |
| US6839197B2 | Apparatus and method to calibrate one or more transducers in a noisy environment | Physics | 9 | Expired |
| US6865052B2 | Apparatus and method to calibrate servo sensors in a noisy environment | Physics | 8 | Expired |
| US6833973B2 | Apparatus and method to calibrate a servo sensor | Physics | 8 | Expired |
| US9613646B2 | Measurement and correction of magnetic writer offset error | Physics | 7 | Active |
| US7443623B2 | Peak detection for magnetic tape timing based servo | Physics | 6 | Active |
| US6842304B2 | Measurement of write track width for magnetic tape head | Physics | 5 | Expired |
| US7369342B2 | Peak detection for magnetic tape timing based servo | Physics | 5 | Active |
| US6831806B2 | Apparatus and method to calibrate a servo sensor | Physics | 5 | Expired |
| US8688905B2 | Multi-host concurrent writing to magnetic tape | Physics | 5 | Active |
| US7623318B1 | Noise reduction in same-gap servo in frequency-based servo tape systems | Electricity | 4 | Active |
| US10068599B2 | Tape damage detection | Physics | 4 | Active |
| US10014019B2 | Measurement and correction of magnetic writer offset error | Physics | 4 | Active |
| US6831801B2 | Eccentricity compensation in a web handling system | Physics | 3 | Expired |
| US6798607B2 | Defined signal injection to calibrate servo index positions employing an independent position sensor | Physics | 3 | Expired |
| US9892750B2 | Dynamically optimizing read performance by adjusting servo-based head location | Physics | 2 | Active |
| US8250299B2 | Multi-host concurrent writing to magnetic tape | Physics | 2 | Active |
| US7159140B2 | Method to transfer information between data storage devices | Physics | 2 | Expired |
| US11448493B2 | Calibration of writer offset using media dimensional stability | Physics | 2 | Active |
| US11404078B1 | Measuring amplitudes of written tracks in a tape drive to determine errors in read and write elements in the tape drive | Physics | 2 | Active |
| US10964350B2 | Setting bias currents and limiting corrosion in TMR sensors | Physics | 2 | Active |
| US9299374B2 | Dynamically optimizing read performance by adjusting servo-based head location | Physics | 2 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.