Kris Schouterden
18Patents
6h-index
30Co-inventors
66Inventor score
Filing activity: Dec 14, 1999 → Sep 17, 2019
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US6618221B2 | System and method for utilizing an actuator-activated pumping mechanism for reducing the operating pressure of a disk drive assembly | Physics | 44 | Expired |
| US6359433B1 | Method and apparatus for preventing data loss in disk drives using predictive failure analysis of magnetoresistive head resistance | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 40 | Expired |
| US6700726B1 | Method for controlling air pressure in an evacuated disk drive | Physics | 14 | Expired |
| US6603628B1 | In-situ pressure sensor based on read head resistance | Physics | 9 | Expired |
| US8131920B2 | Method and system for dynamically allocating read and write sequence randomizer | Physics | 8 | Active |
| US8169730B2 | Suppressing adjacent track interference/far track interference (ATI/FTI) in a hard disk drive (HDD) by an external magnetic field | Physics | 8 | Active |
| US8068306B2 | Write quality of HDD heads experiencing temporary fly-height problems | Physics | 5 | Active |
| US6407880B1 | Environmental corrosion protection for hard disk drive elements by thermal activation | Physics | 4 | Expired |
| US9047921B2 | Adjusting recording density in a circumferential direction | Physics | 3 | Active |
| US7920350B2 | Adaptive data recovery procedure based on radial positioning | Physics | 3 | Active |
| US6934101B2 | Method and apparatus using reverse disk rotation to achieve slider contact with a disk surface | Physics | 3 | Expired |
| US6683743B2 | Method for controlling the velocity of an actuator arm in a hard disk drive | Physics | 3 | Expired |
| US7094129B2 | Magnetic recording head burnishing method | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 2 | Expired |
| US7446966B2 | Method for precompensation/write-current latching to improve error rate | Physics | 1 | Expired |
| US11768701B2 | Exception analysis for data storage devices | Electricity | 0 | Active |
| US7643240B2 | Adjusting a fly-height in hard disk drives | Physics | 0 | Active |
| US7492539B2 | Method for controlling a burnish cycle to minimize cycle time | Physics | 0 | Expired |
| US9368137B2 | Self-cleaning recording heads based on actuator seek profile | Physics | 0 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.