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Laguna Hills, CA, US
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last 30 patents
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Negative voltage testing methodology and tester
Patent number
9,823,294
Issue date
Nov 21, 2017
Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
Christopher Aiello
G01 - MEASURING TESTING
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Power control module for data storage device
Patent number
9,484,733
Issue date
Nov 1, 2016
Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
Timothy A. Ferris
H02 - GENERATION CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER
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Self-adaptive voltage scaling
Patent number
9,471,072
Issue date
Oct 18, 2016
Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
William K. Laird
G05 - CONTROLLING REGULATING
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System and method for preventing undesirable substantially concurre...
Patent number
9,443,431
Issue date
Sep 13, 2016
Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
William K. Laird
G08 - SIGNALLING
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Circuit technique to integrate voice coil motor support elements
Patent number
9,350,278
Issue date
May 24, 2016
Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
Richard A. Schwab
H02 - GENERATION CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER
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Backup power for reducing host current transients
Patent number
9,304,560
Issue date
Apr 5, 2016
Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
William K. Laird
G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
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Self-heating integrated circuit
Patent number
9,275,927
Issue date
Mar 1, 2016
Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
Timothy A. Ferris
G01 - MEASURING TESTING
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Data storage device with overvoltage protection
Patent number
9,251,839
Issue date
Feb 2, 2016
Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
John R. Agness
G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
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Voice coil motor temperature sensing circuit to reduce catastrophic...
Patent number
9,245,540
Issue date
Jan 26, 2016
Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
John R. Agness
G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
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Backup energy storage module with selectable charge storage element...
Patent number
9,143,005
Issue date
Sep 22, 2015
Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
William K. Laird
G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
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Power architecture for low power modes in storage devices
Patent number
9,058,834
Issue date
Jun 16, 2015
Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
Timothy A. Ferris
G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
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Disk drive logging failure analysis data when performing an emergen...
Patent number
8,970,977
Issue date
Mar 3, 2015
Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
John R. Agness
G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
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Semiconductor die including a current routing line having non-metal...
Patent number
8,779,574
Issue date
Jul 15, 2014
Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
John R. Agness
H01 - BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
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Data storage device employing cascaded voltage regulators during po...
Patent number
8,767,354
Issue date
Jul 1, 2014
Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
Timothy A. Ferris
G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
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System and method for charging back-up charge storage element for d...
Patent number
8,724,422
Issue date
May 13, 2014
Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
John R. Agness
G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
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Semiconductor die including a current routing line having non-metal...
Patent number
8,432,031
Issue date
Apr 30, 2013
Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
John R. Agness
H01 - BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
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Self-heating integrated circuit
Patent number
8,358,145
Issue date
Jan 22, 2013
Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
Timothy A. Ferris
G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
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Soft start sequencer for starting multiple voltage regulators
Patent number
8,145,934
Issue date
Mar 27, 2012
Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
Timothy A. Ferris
G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
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Disk drive employing momentum based unload during power failure
Patent number
7,095,579
Issue date
Aug 22, 2006
Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
Robert P. Ryan
G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
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SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PREVENTING UNDESIRABLE SUBSTANTIALLY CONCURRE...
Publication number
20170005573
Publication date
Jan 5, 2017
WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
WILLIAM K. LAIRD
H02 - GENERATION CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER
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VOICE COIL MOTOR TEMPERATURE SENSING CIRCUIT TO REDUCE CATASTROPHIC...
Publication number
20160124444
Publication date
May 5, 2016
WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
JOHN R. AGNESS
G05 - CONTROLLING REGULATING
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BACKUP POWER FOR REDUCING HOST CURRENT TRANSIENTS
Publication number
20140380067
Publication date
Dec 25, 2014
WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
WILLIAM K. LAIRD
G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING