Inventor · Broomfield, CO, US

Neal Glover

49Patents
26h-index
27Co-inventors
85Inventor score

Filing activity: Jun 20, 1983 → May 23, 2008

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5406279A General purpose, hash-based technique for single-pass lossless data compression Electricity 204 Expired
US5844920A Thermal asperity compensation using multiple sync marks for retroactive and split segment data synchronization in a magnetic disk storage system Physics 155 Expired
US5291499A Method and apparatus for reduced-complexity viterbi-type sequence detectors Electricity 112 Expired
US4777635A Reed-Solomon code encoder and syndrome generator circuit Electricity 86 Expired
US4562577A Shared encoder/decoder circuits for use with error correction codes of an optical disk system Electricity 84 Expired
US5602857A Error correction method and apparatus Physics 83 Expired
US5280488A Reed-Solomon code system employing k-bit serial techniques for encoding and burst error trapping Electricity 81 Expired
US5852524A Sampled amplitude read channel for processing multiple data streams in a disc storage system Physics 80 Expired
US4564945A Error-correction code for digital data on video disc Physics 79 Expired
US5844911A Disc storage system with spare sectors dispersed at a regular interval around a data track to reduced access latency Physics 73 Expired
US5761212A Channel quality Physics 67 Expired
US5424881A Synchronous read channel Physics 66 Expired
US5875200A Reed-Solomon code system employing k-bit serial techniques for encoding and burst error trapping Electricity 58 Expired
US5359631A Timing recovery circuit for synchronous waveform sampling Electricity 55 Expired
US5844919A Sector and track level error correction system for disc storage systems Physics 52 Expired
US5872800A Write verify method for correcting unrecoverable sectors in a disc storage system using track level redundancy Physics 49 Expired
US5384786A Fast and efficient circuit for identifying errors introduced in Reed-Solomon codewords Electricity 47 Expired
US5901010A Magnetic disc recording system employing two stage actuators for simultaneous accesses through multiple recording heads Physics 45 Expired
US6125469A Error correction method and apparatus Physics 45 Expired
US6005731A Channel quality circuit employing a test pattern generator in a sampled amplitude read channel for calibration Physics 43 Expired
US4763332A Shared circuitry for the encoding and syndrome generation functions of a Reed-Solomon code Electricity 36 Expired
US5751733A Interleaved redundancy sector for correcting an unrecoverable sector in a disc storage device Physics 35 Expired
US5329554A Digital pulse detector Electricity 32 Expired
US5812334A Synchronous read channel employing discrete timing recovery, transition detector, and sequence detector Physics 28 Expired
US5297184A Gain control circuit for synchronous waveform sampling Electricity 28 Expired

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