Inventor · Milpitas, CA, US

Thorsten Schmidt

46Patents
10h-index
35Co-inventors
75Inventor score

Filing activity: Mar 6, 1998 → May 15, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
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.