Inventor

Francis P. Crimi

Inventor

Los Altos, CA, US

Overview

1995–2019

Patent span

Physics

Primary field (CPC G)

Patents· 12 as inventor

Public. Assignee & technology derived from the patent record. Each patent links to its LexDana page.

G11Bprimary

G11BInformation storage based on relative movement between record carrier and transducer86%

G06FElectric digital data processing7%

Y10TTechnical subjects covered by former us classification7%

PatentTitleYear

10,242,704Command clustering for data storage device2019 7,936,538'Controlled fly height slider with necked ABS'2011 7,688,553'Thermally-compensating attachment of disk drive slider to flexure'2010 7,660,071'Disk drive with altitude detection air vane'2010 7,646,566'Slider deformation control by thermal-structural compensators'2010 7,643,251'Slider having fast take-off fluid bearing surface'2010 7,511,914'Fly height compensation using temperature and non-repeatable runouts'2009 7,509,728'Method for adjusting head-to-disk spacing in a disk drive'2009 7,362,534'System for detecting a change in head-to-disk contact status in a disk drive'2008 7,324,299'Disk drive that positions a head at multiple head-to-disk spacings'2008 7,310,195'System and method for adjusting head-to-disk spacing in a disk drive'2007 5,455,727'Transducer suspension assembly with a first pair of flanges for raising the resonant frequency and a second pair of flanges for increasing stiffness'1995

Career & activity timeline

Assembled from patent assignee/location history and declaration credentials.

1995–2010Patents assigned to MAXTOR CORP (7)· patent assignee history

1995Based in Saratoga, CA, US· patent location history

2007–2011Based in Los Altos, CA, US· patent location history

2008–2019Based in San Jose, CA, US· patent location history

2010–2011Patents assigned to SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC (4)· patent assignee history

2019Patents assigned to WESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC (1)· patent assignee history

Inventor activity

Assignee and location history derived from the patent record.

Assignees

Assignee	Patents	Span
MAXTOR CORP	7	1995–2010
SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC	4	2010–2011
WESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC	1	2019

Locations

Location	Patents	Span
Los Altos, California, US	9	2007–2011
San Jose, California, US	2	2008–2019
Saratoga, California, US	1	1995