Michael L. Workman
20Patents
14h-index
30Co-inventors
81Inventor score
Filing activity: Nov 22, 1982 → Jun 26, 2009
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US4679103A | Digital servo control system for a data recording disk file | Physics | 123 | Expired |
| US4616276A | Disk file servo control system with fast reduction of repeatable head position error | Physics | 82 | Expired |
| US5544138A | Adaptive system for optimizing disk drive power consumption | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 64 | Expired |
| US7023342B2 | Continuous wave (CW)—fixed multiple frequency triggered, radio frequency identification (RFID) tag and system and method employing same | Physics | 42 | Expired |
| US4835633A | Disk file digital servo control system with compensation for variation in actuator acceleration factor | Physics | 41 | Expired |
| US4575776A | Magnetic recording disk file servo control system including an actuator model for generating a simulated head position error signal | Physics | 39 | Expired |
| US5233487A | Functional measurement of data head misregistration | Physics | 35 | Expired |
| US5521896A | Adaptive system for optimizing disk drive power consumption | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 31 | Expired |
| US5204789A | Low noise voltage-biasing amplifier for magnetoresistive element | Physics | 27 | Expired |
| US5422767A | Vibration damper for a multiple disk drive unit | Physics | 23 | Expired |
| USD511777S1 | Front cover of a 4U host | General | 21 | Expired |
| US4486797A | Sliding mask variable resolution velocity trajectory for track following servo | Physics | 20 | Expired |
| US5985163A | Partially etched protective overcoat for a disk drive slider | Physics | 18 | Expired |
| USD511521S1 | Front cover of a 2U data storage subsystem | General | 14 | Expired |
| US6014288A | Partially etched protective overcoat for a disk drive slider | Physics | 12 | Expired |
| US7721022B2 | Storage device with instructions for performing methods of processing I/O requests | Physics | 12 | Active |
| US7216192B2 | Guided configuration of data storage systems | Physics | 11 | Expired |
| US7594044B2 | Systems and methods of processing I/O requests in data storage systems | Physics | 4 | Active |
| US7418531B2 | Quality of service for data storage volumes | Physics | 3 | Expired |
| US7483671B2 | Processor based frequency selective jamming and communications system | Electricity | 0 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.