Thorsten Schmidt

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Fremont, CA, US

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Patents Grantslast 30 patents

Information Patent Grant
Split actuator drive that limits slew rate of aggressor VCM to redu...
- Patent number 12,148,456
- Issue date Nov 19, 2024
- Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Siri S. Weerasooriya
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Seek scheduling in a split actuator drive
- Patent number 11,960,760
- Issue date Apr 16, 2024
- Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Gary W. Calfee
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
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Split-actuator disk drive that uses microactuator feedforward to re...
- Patent number 11,688,423
- Issue date Jun 27, 2023
- Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Gary W. Calfee
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Split actuator drive that limits slew rate of aggressor VCM to redu...
- Patent number 11,615,811
- Issue date Mar 28, 2023
- Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Siri S. Weerasooriya
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Parallel micro-actuator SSW writing
- Patent number 11,227,631
- Issue date Jan 18, 2022
- Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Thorsten Schmidt
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Split-actuator disk drive that uses microactuator feedforward to re...
- Patent number 11,205,450
- Issue date Dec 21, 2021
- Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Gary W. Calfee
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Split-actuator disk drive that uses microactuator feedforward to re...
- Patent number 11,189,310
- Issue date Nov 30, 2021
- Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Gary W. Calfee
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Seek scheduling in a split actuator drive
- Patent number 11,036,436
- Issue date Jun 15, 2021
- Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Gary W. Calfee
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Parallel micro-actuator SSW writing
- Patent number 10,665,257
- Issue date May 26, 2020
- Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Thorsten Schmidt
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Data-center drive with split-actuator that increases read/write per...
- Patent number 10,614,852
- Issue date Apr 7, 2020
- Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Eric R. Dunn
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
SMR drive that maintains physical locations of bands via flush/copy...
- Patent number 10,565,119
- Issue date Feb 18, 2020
- Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Thorsten Schmidt
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Hybrid-HDD with multiple caching modes
- Patent number 9,965,181
- Issue date May 8, 2018
- Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Mine Wonkyung Budiman
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Low-overhead storage of a hibernation file in a hybrid disk drive
- Patent number 9,804,784
- Issue date Oct 31, 2017
- Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Richard M. Ehrlich
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Low-overhead storage of a hibernation file in a hybrid disk drive
- Patent number 9,417,820
- Issue date Aug 16, 2016
- Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Richard M. Ehrlich
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Temperature-defined data-storage policy for a hybrid disk drive
- Patent number 9,396,755
- Issue date Jul 19, 2016
- Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Mine Wonkyung Budiman
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Information Patent Grant
Systems and methods for rewriting data of data tracks potentially a...
- Patent number 7,502,283
- Issue date Mar 10, 2009
- Panasonic Corporation
- Thorsten Schmidt
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Information Patent Grant
Systems and methods for using worf to identify burst patterns for r...
- Patent number 7,298,568
- Issue date Nov 20, 2007
- Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
- Richard M. Ehrlich
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Systems and methods for repairable servo burst patterns
- Patent number 7,262,930
- Issue date Aug 28, 2007
- Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
- Richard M. Ehrlich
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Systems and rotatable media for increasing the usable position erro...
- Patent number 7,177,110
- Issue date Feb 13, 2007
- Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
- Richard M. Ehrlich
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Information Patent Grant
Methods for increasing the usable position error signal (PES) region
- Patent number 7,177,109
- Issue date Feb 13, 2007
- Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
- Richard M. Ehrlich
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Information Patent Grant
Methods for WORF improvement in conditional servowriting
- Patent number 7,136,251
- Issue date Nov 14, 2006
- Matsushita Electric Industrial, Co., Ltd.
- Richard M. Ehrlich
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Method for operating a processor at first and second rates dependin...
- Patent number 7,089,432
- Issue date Aug 8, 2006
- Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
- Thorsten Schmidt
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Apparatus for optimizing processor clock frequency in a hard disk d...
- Patent number 7,072,138
- Issue date Jul 4, 2006
- Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
- Thorsten Schmidt
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Information Patent Grant
Systems and methods for conditional servowriting
- Patent number 7,061,708
- Issue date Jun 13, 2006
- Matsushita Electric Industrial Inc.
- Richard M. Ehrlich
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Information Patent Grant
Devices and systems for setting thresholds for rotatable storage media
- Patent number 7,027,255
- Issue date Apr 11, 2006
- Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
- Thorsten Schmidt
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Information Patent Grant
Devices and systems for setting end-of-seek criteria for rotatable...
- Patent number 7,023,649
- Issue date Apr 4, 2006
- Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
- Thorsten Schmidt
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Information Patent Grant
Intermediate power down mode for a rotatable media data storage device
- Patent number 7,002,884
- Issue date Feb 21, 2006
- Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
- Thorsten Schmidt
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Information Patent Grant
Methods for setting end-of-seek criteria for rotatable storage media
- Patent number 7,002,770
- Issue date Feb 21, 2006
- Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
- Thorsten Schmidt
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Information Patent Grant
Methods for WORF improvement
- Patent number 6,999,266
- Issue date Feb 14, 2006
- Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
- Thorsten Schmidt
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Information Patent Grant
Systems for WORF improvement
- Patent number 6,995,942
- Issue date Feb 7, 2006
- Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
- Thorsten Schmidt
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Patents Applicationslast 30 patents

Information Patent Application
SEEK SCHEDULING IN A SPLIT ACTUATOR DRIVE
- Publication number 20230280935
- Publication date Sep 7, 2023
- Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Gary W. CALFEE
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
SPLIT ACTUATOR DRIVE THAT LIMITS SLEW RATE OF AGGRESSOR VCM TO REDU...
- Publication number 20230238024
- Publication date Jul 27, 2023
- Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Siri S. WEERASOORIYA
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Information Patent Application
SPLIT ACTUATOR DRIVE THAT LIMITS SLEW RATE OF AGGRESSOR VCM TO REDU...
- Publication number 20230061685
- Publication date Mar 2, 2023
- Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Siri S. WEERASOORIYA
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Information Patent Application
SPLIT-ACTUATOR DISK DRIVE THAT USES MICROACTUATOR FEEDFORWARD TO RE...
- Publication number 20220115038
- Publication date Apr 14, 2022
- Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Gary W. CALFEE
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Information Patent Application
SPLIT-ACTUATOR DISK DRIVE THAT USES MICROACTUATOR FEEDFORWARD TO RE...
- Publication number 20210366511
- Publication date Nov 25, 2021
- Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Gary W. CALFEE
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Information Patent Application
SPLIT-ACTUATOR DISK DRIVE THAT USES MICROACTUATOR FEEDFORWARD TO RE...
- Publication number 20210366512
- Publication date Nov 25, 2021
- Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Gary W. CALFEE
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Information Patent Application
SEEK SCHEDULING IN A SPLIT ACTUATOR DRIVE
- Publication number 20210096764
- Publication date Apr 1, 2021
- Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Gary W. CALFEE
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
SEEK SCHEDULING IN A SPLIT ACTUATOR DRIVE
- Publication number 20210096769
- Publication date Apr 1, 2021
- Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Gary W. CALFEE
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
PARALLEL MICRO-ACTUATOR SSW WRITING
- Publication number 20200286513
- Publication date Sep 10, 2020
- Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Thorsten SCHMIDT
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Information Patent Application
DATA-CENTER DRIVE WITH SPLIT-ACTUATOR THAT INCREASES READ/WRITE PER...
- Publication number 20200020357
- Publication date Jan 16, 2020
- Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Eric R. Dunn
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
SMR DRIVE THAT MAINTAINS PHYSICAL LOCATIONS OF BANDS VIA FLUSH/COPY...
- Publication number 20190278711
- Publication date Sep 12, 2019
- Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Thorsten SCHMIDT
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
PARALLEL MICRO-ACTUATOR SSW WRITING
- Publication number 20190279675
- Publication date Sep 12, 2019
- Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Thorsten SCHMIDT
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Information Patent Application
LOW-OVERHEAD STORAGE OF A HIBERNATION FILE IN A HYBRID DISK DRIVE
- Publication number 20160320970
- Publication date Nov 3, 2016
- Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Richard M. EHRLICH
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
HYBRID-HDD WITH MULTIPLE CACHING MODES
- Publication number 20160299850
- Publication date Oct 13, 2016
- Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Mine Wonkyung BUDIMAN
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
TEMPERATURE-DEFINED DATA-STORAGE POLICY FOR A HYBRID DISK DRIVE
- Publication number 20140233132
- Publication date Aug 21, 2014
- Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Mine Wonkyung BUDIMAN
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Information Patent Application
LOW-OVERHEAD STORAGE OF A HIBERNATION FILE IN A HYBRID DISK DRIVE
- Publication number 20140164675
- Publication date Jun 12, 2014
- Richard M. EHRLICH
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Multi-quadrant wedge offset reduction field values for disk drive s...
- Publication number 20080239555
- Publication date Oct 2, 2008
- Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc.
- Richard M. Ehrlich
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Information Patent Application
Use of multiple operating RPMs in a hard disk drive to save energy
- Publication number 20060218416
- Publication date Sep 28, 2006
- Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
- Raghu Gururangan
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Methods for increasing the usable position error signal (PES) region
- Publication number 20060098326
- Publication date May 11, 2006
- Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
- Richard M. Ehrlich
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
Systems and rotatable media for increasing the usable position erro...
- Publication number 20060098327
- Publication date May 11, 2006
- Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
- Richard M. Ehrlich
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
Systems for WORF improvement
- Publication number 20050237660
- Publication date Oct 27, 2005
- Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
- Thorsten Schmidt
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
Stepping power consumption levels in a hard disk drive to maximize...
- Publication number 20050174678
- Publication date Aug 11, 2005
- Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
- Fernando A. Zayas
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Information Patent Application
Systems and methods for using worf to identify burst patterns for r...
- Publication number 20050157416
- Publication date Jul 21, 2005
- Matsushita Electrical Industrial Co., Ltd.
- Richard M. Ehrlich
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Information Patent Application
Systems for tighter thresholds in rotatable storage media
- Publication number 20050152058
- Publication date Jul 14, 2005
- Thorsten Schmidt
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
Methods for tighter thresholds in rotatable storage media
- Publication number 20050152057
- Publication date Jul 14, 2005
- Thorsten Schmidt
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
Operating a rotatable media storage device at multiple spin-speeds
- Publication number 20050141375
- Publication date Jun 30, 2005
- Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
- Richard M. Ehrlich
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Information Patent Application
Systems and methods for conditional servowriting
- Publication number 20050141124
- Publication date Jun 30, 2005
- Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
- Richard M. Ehrlich
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Information Patent Application
System and method for time varying filter for seek acoustics reduction
- Publication number 20050141131
- Publication date Jun 30, 2005
- Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
- Thorsten Schmidt
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
Systems and methods for rewriting user data in rotatable storage media
- Publication number 20050141129
- Publication date Jun 30, 2005
- Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
- Thorsten Schmidt
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
Methods for WORF improvement in conditional servowriting
- Publication number 20050141126
- Publication date Jun 30, 2005
- Matsushita Electrical Co., Ltd.
- Richard M. Ehrlich
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE

Thorsten Schmidt

Person

Patents Grantslast 30 patents

Split actuator drive that limits slew rate of aggressor VCM to redu...

Seek scheduling in a split actuator drive

Split-actuator disk drive that uses microactuator feedforward to re...

Split actuator drive that limits slew rate of aggressor VCM to redu...

Parallel micro-actuator SSW writing

Split-actuator disk drive that uses microactuator feedforward to re...

Split-actuator disk drive that uses microactuator feedforward to re...

Seek scheduling in a split actuator drive

Parallel micro-actuator SSW writing

Data-center drive with split-actuator that increases read/write per...

SMR drive that maintains physical locations of bands via flush/copy...

Hybrid-HDD with multiple caching modes

Low-overhead storage of a hibernation file in a hybrid disk drive

Low-overhead storage of a hibernation file in a hybrid disk drive

Temperature-defined data-storage policy for a hybrid disk drive

Systems and methods for rewriting data of data tracks potentially a...

Systems and methods for using worf to identify burst patterns for r...

Systems and methods for repairable servo burst patterns

Systems and rotatable media for increasing the usable position erro...

Methods for increasing the usable position error signal (PES) region

Methods for WORF improvement in conditional servowriting

Method for operating a processor at first and second rates dependin...

Apparatus for optimizing processor clock frequency in a hard disk d...

Systems and methods for conditional servowriting

Devices and systems for setting thresholds for rotatable storage media

Devices and systems for setting end-of-seek criteria for rotatable...

Intermediate power down mode for a rotatable media data storage device

Methods for setting end-of-seek criteria for rotatable storage media

Methods for WORF improvement

Systems for WORF improvement

Patents Applicationslast 30 patents

SEEK SCHEDULING IN A SPLIT ACTUATOR DRIVE

SPLIT ACTUATOR DRIVE THAT LIMITS SLEW RATE OF AGGRESSOR VCM TO REDU...

SPLIT ACTUATOR DRIVE THAT LIMITS SLEW RATE OF AGGRESSOR VCM TO REDU...

SPLIT-ACTUATOR DISK DRIVE THAT USES MICROACTUATOR FEEDFORWARD TO RE...

SPLIT-ACTUATOR DISK DRIVE THAT USES MICROACTUATOR FEEDFORWARD TO RE...

SPLIT-ACTUATOR DISK DRIVE THAT USES MICROACTUATOR FEEDFORWARD TO RE...

SEEK SCHEDULING IN A SPLIT ACTUATOR DRIVE

SEEK SCHEDULING IN A SPLIT ACTUATOR DRIVE

PARALLEL MICRO-ACTUATOR SSW WRITING

DATA-CENTER DRIVE WITH SPLIT-ACTUATOR THAT INCREASES READ/WRITE PER...

SMR DRIVE THAT MAINTAINS PHYSICAL LOCATIONS OF BANDS VIA FLUSH/COPY...

PARALLEL MICRO-ACTUATOR SSW WRITING

LOW-OVERHEAD STORAGE OF A HIBERNATION FILE IN A HYBRID DISK DRIVE

HYBRID-HDD WITH MULTIPLE CACHING MODES

TEMPERATURE-DEFINED DATA-STORAGE POLICY FOR A HYBRID DISK DRIVE

LOW-OVERHEAD STORAGE OF A HIBERNATION FILE IN A HYBRID DISK DRIVE

Multi-quadrant wedge offset reduction field values for disk drive s...

Use of multiple operating RPMs in a hard disk drive to save energy

Methods for increasing the usable position error signal (PES) region

Systems and rotatable media for increasing the usable position erro...

Systems for WORF improvement

Stepping power consumption levels in a hard disk drive to maximize...

Systems and methods for using worf to identify burst patterns for r...

Systems for tighter thresholds in rotatable storage media

Methods for tighter thresholds in rotatable storage media

Operating a rotatable media storage device at multiple spin-speeds

Systems and methods for conditional servowriting

System and method for time varying filter for seek acoustics reduction

Systems and methods for rewriting user data in rotatable storage media

Methods for WORF improvement in conditional servowriting