Steven C. Smith
15Patents
7h-index
21Co-inventors
66Inventor score
Filing activity: May 10, 1990 → Jan 15, 2019
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US8724245B1 | Disk drive employing overlapping servo zones to facilitate servo zone crossing | Physics | 114 | Active |
| US8451697B1 | Disk drive centering demodulation windows on spiral tracks during a seek operation | Physics | 111 | Active |
| US8432629B1 | Disk drive centering sync frames on sync marks of a spiral track | Physics | 110 | Active |
| US7679850B2 | Position determination using circular shift codes | Physics | 17 | Active |
| US7881004B2 | Adaptive track shape control during self servo-write | Physics | 17 | Active |
| US7695287B2 | Ball grid array (BGA) connection system and related method and ball socket | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 10 | Active |
| US8460149B1 | Differential bearing system for a power transmitting component and method for assembling a power transmitting component | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 10 | Active |
| US5063370A | Hypodermic syringe needle detection alarm | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 6 | Expired |
| USD845735S1 | Indicator panel for a power tool | General | 5 | Active |
| US8636966B2 | Compositions and methods for treating nuclear fuel | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 4 | Active |
| US8506911B2 | Compositions and methods for treating nuclear fuel | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 4 | Active |
| USD929312S1 | Tire | General | 1 | Active |
| US7667920B2 | Correcting a track pitch error with a subsequent servo-write pass | Physics | 1 | Active |
| US11534903B2 | Power tool two-stage trigger | Performing Operations; Transporting | 0 | Active |
| US9208101B2 | Virtual NAND capacity extension in a hybrid drive | Physics | 0 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.