Inventor · Hollister, CA, US

William Ward Clawson

6Patents
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6Co-inventors
56Inventor score

Filing activity: Jan 28, 1994 → Feb 7, 2014

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6992852B1 Method for reducing disk thermal expansion effects while writing reference spiral servo patterns to a disk of a disk drive Physics 147 Expired
US7839591B1 Disk drive comprising index spiral track identified by change in sync mark Physics 123 Active
US7145744B1 Reducing spiral write time and clock track drift while writing spiral reference patterns to a disk of a disk drive Physics 56 Expired
US5553086A Multiple servo sector sets write with self-verification for disk drive Physics 29 Expired
US8694754B2 Non-volatile memory-based mass storage devices and methods for writing data thereto Physics 18 Active
US9342260B2 Methods for writing data to non-volatile memory-based mass storage devices Physics 6 Active

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