Raffi Codilian
95Patents
59h-index
59Co-inventors
87Inventor score
Filing activity: Dec 18, 1992 → Nov 22, 2010
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US6091564A | Disk drive with calibration bursts that are recorded on a spiral and method of recording the same | Physics | 194 | Expired |
| US7120806B1 | Method for setting a power operating mode transition interval of a disk drive in a mobile device based on application category | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 190 | Expired |
| US6892313B1 | Method for predictive power management for operating a disk drive in a mobile device to optimize power usage | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 178 | Expired |
| US7095577B1 | Disk drive for optimizing write current settings relative to drive operating characteristics and ambient temperature readings | Physics | 167 | Expired |
| US6995933B1 | Disk drive for optimizing write current settings relative to drive operating characteristics and ambient temperature readings | Physics | 154 | Expired |
| US6892249B1 | Dependently adjusting at least three operating levels of a disk drive by dependently adjusting a plurality of disk drive parameters | Physics | 150 | Expired |
| US6714371B1 | Method and disk drive for shock estimation and write termination control | Physics | 146 | Expired |
| US6493169B1 | Disk drive employing spindle motor commutation time variation for reducing acoustic noise | Physics | 144 | Expired |
| US7274639B1 | Disk drive performing multi-level prioritization of entries in a suspect sector list to identify and relocate defective data sectors | Physics | 143 | Expired |
| US6968422B1 | Disk drive employing a modified rotational position optimization algorithm to account for external vibrations | Physics | 140 | Expired |
| US6445524B1 | Method of operating a disk drive for writing to an addressable location after detecting that a head is within a safe-to-write window | Physics | 139 | Expired |
| US6782449B1 | Adaptively modifying a read caching algorithm based upon the detection of a vibration state within a rotating media storage device | Physics | 139 | Expired |
| US7088538B1 | Adaptively estimating a read access time to a second track based upon the binned radial position of the second track within a rotating media storage device | Physics | 135 | Expired |
| US6104153A | Disk drive employing method of spinning down its spindle motor to reduce the time required for spinning it down and subsequently spinning it up | Physics | 133 | Expired |
| US8190575B1 | Disk drive maintaining multiple copies of code segments | Physics | 133 | Active |
| US6204988A | Disk drive capable of autonomously evaluating and adapting the frequency response of its servo control system | Physics | 133 | Expired |
| US8307156B1 | Adaptively modifying pre-read operations within a rotating media storage device | Physics | 132 | Active |
| US6707635B1 | Method and apparatus for RRO learning on alternate tracks before and after shipping to cancel RRO in a disk drive | Physics | 131 | Expired |
| US6914743B1 | Vibration cancellation in a disk drive by using an acceleration sensor and adaptively adjusting its gain to minimize external acceleration effects | Physics | 131 | Expired |
| US6952322B1 | Disk drive reading servo sectors recorded at a relative offset on multiple disk surfaces to increase the servo sample rate | Physics | 131 | Expired |
| US6545835B1 | Method and apparatus for RRO learning before and after shipping to cancel RRO in a disk drive | Physics | 131 | Expired |
| US6198590A | Disk drive employing method of spinning down its spindle motor to reduce the time required for subsequently spinning it up | Physics | 130 | Expired |
| US6710966B1 | Method for reducing an effect of vibration on a disk drive during a track following operation by adjusting an adaptive-filter gain applied to an acceleration sensor signal | Physics | 130 | Expired |
| US6369972B1 | Temperature monitoring method of a disk drive voice coil motor from a traveled distance | Physics | 129 | Expired |
| US6198584A | Disk drive with staggered calibration bursts that are disposably located in data regions and method of using the same for calibrating a read head | Physics | 126 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.