Thorsten Schmidt
46Patents
10h-index
35Co-inventors
75Inventor score
Filing activity: Mar 6, 1998 → May 15, 2023
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US6256163A | Method and apparatus for performing current shaping for seeking acoustics reduction in a disk drive | Physics | 33 | Expired |
| US7751458B2 | High power laser diode array comprising at least one high power diode laser and laser light source comprising the same | Electricity | 29 | Active |
| US7292926B2 | Method and device for estimation of combustion chamber pressure | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 28 | Expired |
| US6148240A | Method and apparatus for performing an open-loop current shaping for seeking acoustics reduction in a disk drive | Physics | 27 | Expired |
| US6515819B1 | Adaptive update of seek time prediction data | Physics | 20 | Expired |
| US6999266B1 | Methods for WORF improvement | Physics | 19 | Expired |
| US7027255B2 | Devices and systems for setting thresholds for rotatable storage media | Physics | 19 | Expired |
| US7002884B2 | Intermediate power down mode for a rotatable media data storage device | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 14 | Expired |
| US7298568B2 | Systems and methods for using worf to identify burst patterns for repair | Physics | 11 | Expired |
| US6402083B1 | Bobbin loading and unloading apparatus | Performing Operations; Transporting | 10 | Expired |
| US7061708B2 | Systems and methods for conditional servowriting | Physics | 6 | Expired |
| US7072138B2 | Apparatus for optimizing processor clock frequency in a hard disk drive to minimize power consumption while maximizing performance | Physics | 6 | Expired |
| US7177110B2 | Systems and rotatable media for increasing the usable position error signal (PES) region | Physics | 6 | Expired |
| US9396755B2 | Temperature-defined data-storage policy for a hybrid disk drive | Physics | 5 | Active |
| US7502283B2 | Systems and methods for rewriting data of data tracks potentially affected by data transfer operations in rotatable storage media | Physics | 5 | Active |
| US7089432B2 | Method for operating a processor at first and second rates depending upon whether the processor is executing code to control predetermined hard drive operations | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 4 | Expired |
| US10665257B2 | Parallel micro-actuator SSW writing | Physics | 4 | Active |
| US6995942B2 | Systems for WORF improvement | Physics | 4 | Expired |
| US9417820B2 | Low-overhead storage of a hibernation file in a hybrid disk drive | Physics | 3 | Active |
| US8277456B2 | Spinal-column distractor | Human Necessities | 3 | Active |
| US7002770B2 | Methods for setting end-of-seek criteria for rotatable storage media | Physics | 2 | Expired |
| US7136251B2 | Methods for WORF improvement in conditional servowriting | Physics | 2 | Expired |
| US11208326B1 | Method and apparatus for manufacturing nitrogen tetroxide | Chemistry; Metallurgy | 2 | Active |
| US8180568B2 | Method for operating a navigation system | Physics | 2 | Active |
| US10614852B2 | Data-center drive with split-actuator that increases read/write performance via data striping | Physics | 2 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.