Inventor · Saratoga, CA, US

Lin Guo

83Patents
16h-index
184Co-inventors
87Inventor score

Filing activity: May 6, 1998 → Aug 28, 2024

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7230789B1 Method and apparatus for performing a self-servo write operation in a disk drive using spiral servo information Physics 73 Expired
US7154689B1 Apparatus for writing servo bursts on a disk with servo track pitch based on read element width and methods of manufacturing same Physics 65 Expired
US6266205A Parallel servo with ultra high bandwidth off-track detection Physics 64 Expired
US7158325B1 Disk drive head touchdown detection with improved discrimination Physics 55 Expired
US7369345B1 Mobile hard disk drive free fall detection and protection Physics 55 Active
US6493176B1 Disk drive with variable TPI servo tracks Physics 44 Expired
US6977790B1 Design scheme to increase the gain of strain based sensors in hard disk drive actuators Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 42 Expired
US7283321B1 Disk drives and methods allowing for dual stage actuator adaptive seek control and microactuator gain calibration Physics 38 Expired
US6437937B1 Disk drive with high speed read/write capability Physics 25 Expired
US7375911B1 Piezoelectric actuator and sensor for disk drive dual-stage servo systems 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
US6975477B1 Micro actuator DC gain calibration scheme for HDD dual-stage actuator systems Physics 22 Expired
US7414809B2 Servo writing using radially overlapped servo segments Physics 22 Active
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
US7679851B1 Methods and structure for improved disk head switching to avoid zipper zones Physics 16 Active
US7161759B1 Self servo writing using servo burst edge errors for compound error correction Physics 16 Expired
US8923372B2 Method and apparatus for improved parallel RF testing of multiple devices Electricity 15 Active
US7054096B1 Method and apparatus for determining embedded runout correction values Physics 15 Expired
US6744577B1 Piezoelectric actuator and shock sensor Physics 13 Expired
US6798610B1 Disk drive with self servo writing capability Physics 13 Expired
US6867949B1 Vibration-damped push-pin assembly for disk drive servo writing Physics 13 Expired
US6532135B1 Suspension load beam for disk drive actuator Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 13 Expired
US7215499B1 Multi-stage actuator disk drive and methods for controlling a transducer with settle-switching state dependent feed-forward control Physics 10 Expired
US7145745B1 Multi-stage actuator disk drives, methods, and computer program products that compensate for repeatable runout based on estimated secondary actuator position Physics 9 Expired

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.