Inventor · San Jose, CA, US

Sylvia Lee

16Patents
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16Co-inventors
63Inventor score

Filing activity: Dec 3, 1984 → Oct 16, 2015

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
USD788140S1 Display screen or portion thereof with animated graphical user interface General 940 Active
US5423207A Advanced PZT glide head design and implementation for a small slider Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 41 Expired
US4589036A Apparatus and method for instrumented radial translation of a read/write transducer at start-up of a rotating disk file Physics 24 Expired
US6092412A Glide height test signal processor and method using increased high frequency components Physics 23 Expired
US5581021A Method and apparatus for optimizing piezoelectric surface asperity detection sensor Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 20 Expired
US5450747A Method for optimizing piezoelectric surface asperity detection sensor Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 20 Expired
US7907062B2 Dual direction power and data transfer protocol and safety detection Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 8 Active
US6958876B2 Leak detection system of hard disk drives with lubricant reservoir Physics 7 Expired
US6914739B2 Closed loop lubrication system for moving magnetic media Physics 6 Expired
US6678113B2 Device and method for monitoring lubricant within a disk drive Physics 5 Expired
US6580585B2 Magnetic disk drive with load/unload structure having lubricant reservoir Physics 5 Expired
US7874389B2 Flexible hybrid drive system for vehicle stability control Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 3 Active
US7176703B2 Test probe with thermally activated grip and release Physics 3 Expired
US7345845B2 Fluid damping structure for hard disk drives and vibration sensitive electronic devices Physics 3 Expired
US7251096B1 Shock induced cleaning for hard disk drives Physics 1 Expired
US7538973B2 Method and apparatus for providing a fluid damping structure with fuel cell for a hard disk drive and vibration sensitive electronic devices Physics 0 Active

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