Don Brunnett
42Patents
19h-index
82Co-inventors
84Inventor score
Filing activity: Dec 14, 1994 → Oct 19, 2020
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US7974029B2 | Disk drive biasing refresh zone counters based on write commands | Physics | 146 | Active |
| US8179626B1 | Adaptive shock detection | Physics | 118 | Active |
| US8665546B1 | Adaptive threshold for detecting touchdown or contamination | Physics | 116 | Active |
| US7685360B1 | Methods and structure for dynamic appended metadata in a dynamically mapped mass storage device | Physics | 112 | Active |
| US7230789B1 | Method and apparatus for performing a self-servo write operation in a disk drive using spiral servo information | Physics | 73 | Expired |
| US6950967B1 | Method and apparatus for manufacture test processing a disk drive installed in a computer system | Physics | 67 | Expired |
| US5602693A | Method and apparatus for sensing position in a disk drive | Physics | 58 | Expired |
| US7158325B1 | Disk drive head touchdown detection with improved discrimination | Physics | 55 | Expired |
| US7170700B1 | Method of determining side track erasure in a disk drive | Physics | 35 | Expired |
| US6965491B1 | Method to correct radial misposition of data tracks | Physics | 35 | Expired |
| US7154690B1 | Dynamic shock detection in disk drive using accumulated average position error | Physics | 33 | Expired |
| US6882489B1 | Dynamic off-track detector | Physics | 31 | Expired |
| US7400473B1 | Slider with independent fly-height adjustment of reader and writer | Physics | 31 | Expired |
| US7545593B1 | Magnetic storage systems and methods with tighter write fault window to improve reliability | Physics | 25 | Expired |
| US6980383B2 | Monitoring of phenomena indicative of PTP in a magnetic disk drive | Physics | 25 | Expired |
| US7551387B2 | Servo writing with offset compensation for prewritten reference | Physics | 25 | Active |
| US7502205B1 | Method of operating read and write transducers by controlling thermal actuation | Physics | 24 | Expired |
| US6977794B1 | Asymmetric seek velocity profile to improve power failure reliability for rigid disk drive with ramp | Physics | 21 | Expired |
| US7106542B1 | Method and apparatus for determining embedded runout correction values when self-servo writing or partial self-servo writing a disk drive | Physics | 19 | Expired |
| US7167336B1 | Method for providing variable gain, iterative embedded runout correction in a disk drive | Physics | 18 | Expired |
| US7679851B1 | Methods and structure for improved disk head switching to avoid zipper zones | Physics | 16 | Active |
| US6714376B1 | Partial servo write fill in | Physics | 16 | Expired |
| US7489469B2 | Embedded runout correction based on written-in runout measurement | Physics | 15 | Active |
| US7054096B1 | Method and apparatus for determining embedded runout correction values | Physics | 15 | Expired |
| US7315431B1 | Method to correct radial misposition of data tracks using stitched correction fields | Physics | 14 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.