Inventor

Curtis Egan

Inventor

Thornton, CO, US

Overview

1992–2010

Patent span

Physics

Primary field (CPC G)

Patents· 10 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 transducer75%

B64GCosmonautics8%

F28DHeat-exchange apparatus, not provided for in another subclass, in which the heat-exchange media do not come into direct contact8%

G01RMeasuring electric variables8%

PatentTitleYear

7,787,209'Method and apparatus for compensating for repeatable runout using wide embedded runout correction fields'2010 7,518,813'Methods and structure for detecting anomalous events in a disk drive using VGA variance'2009 7,317,586'Methods and structure for general purpose interval accumulating filter for measuring operational parameters of a digital read channel'2008 7,170,703'Flaw detection in disk drive using significant samples of data pattern stored on disk'2007 7,032,127'Method and apparatus for identifying defective areas on a disk surface of a disk drive based on defect density'2006 7,023,632'Monitoring of phenomena indicative of PTP in a hard disk and controlling the burnishing of heads'2006 6,611,390'Method and apparatus for improving servo zoning for PRML detected gray code using channel bit densities'2003 6,452,735'Disk drive that monitors the flying height of a dual element transducer using a thermally induced signal during write operations'2002 6,353,315'Method and apparatus for using the data interface of a disk drive to identify and characterize disk flaws'2002 5,103,897'Flowrate controller for hybrid capillary/mechanical two-phase thermal loops'1992

Career & activity timeline

Assembled from patent assignee/location history and declaration credentials.

1992Patents assigned to MARTIN MARIETTA CORP (1)· patent assignee history

1992Based in Littleton, CO, US· patent location history

2002–2010Patents assigned to MAXTOR CORP (9)· patent assignee history

2002–2010Based in Thornton, CO, US· patent location history

Inventor activity

Assignee and location history derived from the patent record.

Assignees

Assignee	Patents	Span
MAXTOR CORP	9	2002–2010
MARTIN MARIETTA CORP	1	1992

Locations

Location	Patents	Span
Thornton, CO, US	9	2002–2010
Littleton, CO, US	1	1992