Robert E. Eaton
12Patents
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20Co-inventors
66Inventor score
Filing activity: Feb 6, 1995 → Sep 19, 2024
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US7199960B1 | Disk drive with AC exciter for head/disk interface | Physics | 37 | Expired |
| US7705588B2 | Apparatus and method for testing magnetic disk drive components using drive-based parts | Physics | 10 | Active |
| US5661614A | Method and apparatus for error recovery for unstable magnetorestrictive heads | Physics | 6 | Expired |
| US9786310B1 | Data storage device detecting lasing threshold of laser by measuring protrusion effect | Physics | 5 | Active |
| US9361939B1 | Data storage device characterizing geometry of magnetic transitions | Physics | 5 | Active |
| US9001453B1 | Data storage device calibrating fly height actuator based on read mode touchdown resistance of touchdown sensor | Physics | 4 | Active |
| US7697223B2 | Monitoring a fly height of a magnetic transducer | Physics | 3 | Active |
| US7808734B2 | Monitoring a fly height of a magnetic transducer | Physics | 3 | Active |
| US8238051B2 | Real time monitoring inconsistent operations in a hard disk drive | Physics | 2 | Active |
| US9786309B1 | Data storage device detecting minimum stable fly height of a head over a disk | Physics | 2 | Active |
| US12374362B1 | Harmonic sensor phase error detection for data storage devices | Physics | 0 | Active |
| US10553247B2 | Data storage device calibrating data density based on amplitude-inverted or time-inverted read signal | Physics | 0 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.