Weldon M. Hanson

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Rochester, MN, US

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Patents Grantslast 30 patents

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Adjustable code rates and dynamic ECC in a data storage device
- Patent number 12,099,409
- Issue date Sep 24, 2024
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Iouri Oboukhov
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Adjustable code rates and dynamic ECC in a data storage device with...
- Patent number 12,028,091
- Issue date Jul 2, 2024
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Iouri Oboukhov
- H03 - BASIC ELECTRONIC CIRCUITRY
Information Patent Grant
Sector metrics to estimate health of written data
- Patent number 12,020,733
- Issue date Jun 25, 2024
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Niranjay Ravindran
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Offset spiral data track format for data storage devices
- Patent number 11,948,602
- Issue date Apr 2, 2024
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Weldon M. Hanson
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Overlapping processing of data tracks
- Patent number 11,929,093
- Issue date Mar 12, 2024
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Weldon M. Hanson
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Neural network soft information detector in a read channel
- Patent number 11,811,425
- Issue date Nov 7, 2023
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Iouri Oboukhov
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Extendable parity code matrix construction and utilization in a dat...
- Patent number 11,764,813
- Issue date Sep 19, 2023
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Iouri Oboukhov
- H03 - BASIC ELECTRONIC CIRCUITRY
Information Patent Grant
Position and risk reconstruction in shingled magnetic recording dat...
- Patent number 11,756,581
- Issue date Sep 12, 2023
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Weldon M. Hanson
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Signal correction using soft information in a data channel
- Patent number 11,716,097
- Issue date Aug 1, 2023
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Richard Galbraith
- H03 - BASIC ELECTRONIC CIRCUITRY
Information Patent Grant
Data storage device with history dependent write boost
- Patent number 11,482,247
- Issue date Oct 25, 2022
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Guoxiao Guo
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Information Patent Grant
Data storage device synchronizing first channel based on sync mark...
- Patent number 11,386,927
- Issue date Jul 12, 2022
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Derrick E. Burton
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Data storage device reading data from magnetic tape in forward and...
- Patent number 11,373,682
- Issue date Jun 28, 2022
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- James N. Malina
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Information Patent Grant
Magnetic recording tape having embedded servo sectors on data tracks
- Patent number 11,289,123
- Issue date Mar 29, 2022
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Richard L. Galbraith
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
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Data storage device with servo field dependent write boost
- Patent number 11,200,912
- Issue date Dec 14, 2021
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Guoxiao Guo
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Data storage device employing embedded servo sectors for magnetic tape
- Patent number 11,138,996
- Issue date Oct 5, 2021
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Richard L. Galbraith
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Information Patent Grant
Data storage device employing multi-level parity sectors for data r...
- Patent number 11,055,171
- Issue date Jul 6, 2021
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Niranjay Ravindran
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Data storage device employing multi-tier coding for magnetic tape
- Patent number 11,049,520
- Issue date Jun 29, 2021
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Richard L. Galbraith
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Information Patent Grant
Data storage device measuring air bearing resonant frequency to cal...
- Patent number 10,783,913
- Issue date Sep 22, 2020
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Sukumar Rajauria
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Data storage device aborting write operation based on accumulated t...
- Patent number 10,748,567
- Issue date Aug 18, 2020
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Hideki Zaitsu
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Data storage device employing multi-level parity sectors for data r...
- Patent number 10,606,699
- Issue date Mar 31, 2020
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Iouri Oboukhov
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Data storage device employing memory efficient processing of un-con...
- Patent number 10,530,390
- Issue date Jan 7, 2020
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Iouri Oboukhov
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Data storage device extending erasures for LDPC-type decoding
- Patent number 10,417,089
- Issue date Sep 17, 2019
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Iouri Oboukhov
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Data storage device dynamically generating extended redundancy over...
- Patent number 10,373,645
- Issue date Aug 6, 2019
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Derrick E. Burton
- H03 - BASIC ELECTRONIC CIRCUITRY
Information Patent Grant
Implementing enhanced track following during read back using head a...
- Patent number 10,008,229
- Issue date Jun 26, 2018
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Richard Leo Galbraith
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Implementing BER-list modulation code for hard disk drives
- Patent number 9,886,979
- Issue date Feb 6, 2018
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Richard Leo Galbraith
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Track error-correcting code extension
- Patent number 9,632,863
- Issue date Apr 25, 2017
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Richard L. Galbraith
- H03 - BASIC ELECTRONIC CIRCUITRY
Information Patent Grant
Magnetic recording disk drive with write position error signal valu...
- Patent number 9,437,232
- Issue date Sep 6, 2016
- HGST Netherlands B.V.
- Richard Leo Galbraith
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Spacing measurement improvement in the presence of track mis-regist...
- Patent number 9,361,922
- Issue date Jun 7, 2016
- HGST Netherlands B.V.
- Weldon M. Hanson
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Disk drive with channel and preamp with dynamic write-current contr...
- Patent number 9,275,656
- Issue date Mar 1, 2016
- HGST Netherlands B.V.
- John Contreras
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
System and method for testing data storage systems utilizing micro-...
- Patent number 9,218,847
- Issue date Dec 22, 2015
- HGST Netherlands B.V.
- Weldon Mark Hanson
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE

Patents Applicationslast 30 patents

Information Patent Application
Preprocessing for Correcting Insertions and Deletions in DNA Data S...
- Publication number 20240184666
- Publication date Jun 6, 2024
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Iouri Oboukhov
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Nested Error Correction Codes for DNA Data Storage
- Publication number 20240185959
- Publication date Jun 6, 2024
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Iouri Oboukhov
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
Adjustable Code Rates and Dynamic ECC in a Data Storage Device with...
- Publication number 20240106461
- Publication date Mar 28, 2024
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Iouri Oboukhov
- H03 - BASIC ELECTRONIC CIRCUITRY
Information Patent Application
Channel Circuit with Asynchronous Sampling from an Oversampled Anal...
- Publication number 20240097696
- Publication date Mar 21, 2024
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Richard Galbraith
- H03 - BASIC ELECTRONIC CIRCUITRY
Information Patent Application
Offset Spiral Data Track Format for Data Storage Devices
- Publication number 20240005959
- Publication date Jan 4, 2024
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Weldon M. Hanson
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
Adjustable Code Rates and Dynamic ECC in a Data Storage Device
- Publication number 20230393937
- Publication date Dec 7, 2023
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Iouri Oboukhov
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
SECTOR METRICS TO ESTIMATE HEALTH OF WRITTEN DATA
- Publication number 20230335158
- Publication date Oct 19, 2023
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Niranjay Ravindran
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
POSITION AND RISK RECONSTRUCTION IN SHINGLED MAGNETIC RECORDING DAT...
- Publication number 20230306994
- Publication date Sep 28, 2023
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Weldon M. Hanson
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
Overlapping Processing of Data Tracks
- Publication number 20230307000
- Publication date Sep 28, 2023
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Weldon M. Hanson
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
Signal Correction Using Soft Information in a Data Channel
- Publication number 20230208445
- Publication date Jun 29, 2023
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Richard Galbraith
- H03 - BASIC ELECTRONIC CIRCUITRY
Information Patent Application
Neural Network Soft Information Detector in a Read Channel
- Publication number 20220376711
- Publication date Nov 24, 2022
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Iouri Oboukhov
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
DATA STORAGE DEVICE WITH HISTORY DEPENDENT WRITE BOOST
- Publication number 20220246173
- Publication date Aug 4, 2022
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Guoxiao Guo
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
DATA STORAGE DEVICE READING DATA FROM MAGNETIC TAPE IN FORWARD AND...
- Publication number 20220068308
- Publication date Mar 3, 2022
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- James N. Malina
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
DATA STORAGE DEVICE EMPLOYING EMBEDDED SERVO SECTORS FOR MAGNETIC TAPE
- Publication number 20210350825
- Publication date Nov 11, 2021
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- RICHARD L. GALBRAITH
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
DATA STORAGE DEVICE EMPLOYING MULTI-LEVEL PARITY SECTORS FOR DATA R...
- Publication number 20200210277
- Publication date Jul 2, 2020
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- NIRANJAY RAVINDRAN
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
DATA STORAGE DEVICE EMPLOYING MEMORY EFFICIENT PROCESSING OF UN-CON...
- Publication number 20190356334
- Publication date Nov 21, 2019
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- IOURI OBOUKHOV
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
DATA STORAGE DEVICE EMPLOYING MULTI-LEVEL PARITY SECTORS FOR DATA R...
- Publication number 20190354434
- Publication date Nov 21, 2019
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- IOURI OBOUKHOV
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
DATA STORAGE DEVICE EXTENDING ERASURES FOR LDPC-TYPE DECODING
- Publication number 20190250987
- Publication date Aug 15, 2019
- WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
- IOURI OBOUKHOV
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
DATA STORAGE DEVICE DYNAMICALLY GENERATING EXTENDED REDUNDANCY OVER...
- Publication number 20190156861
- Publication date May 23, 2019
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Derrick E. Burton
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
IMPLEMENTING ENHANCED TRACK FOLLOWING DURING READ BACK USING HEAD A...
- Publication number 20170194024
- Publication date Jul 6, 2017
- HGST NETHERLANDS B.V.
- Richard Leo Galbraith
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
TRACK ERROR-CORRECTING CODE EXTENSION
- Publication number 20160203041
- Publication date Jul 14, 2016
- HGST NETHERLANDS B.V.
- Richard L. Galbraith
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TESTING DATA STORAGE SYSTEMS UTILIZING MICRO-...
- Publication number 20150170707
- Publication date Jun 18, 2015
- HGST NETHERLANDS B.V.
- Weldon Mark HANSON
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
DISK DRIVE WITH DIFFERENT SYNCHRONIZATION FIELDS AND SYNCHRONIZATIO...
- Publication number 20150077875
- Publication date Mar 19, 2015
- HGST NETHERLANDS B.V.
- Jonathan Darrel Coker
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
DISK DRIVE WITH DIFFERENT DATA SECTOR INTEGRATED PREAMBLES IN ADJAC...
- Publication number 20150077876
- Publication date Mar 19, 2015
- HGST NETHERLANDS B.V.
- Jonathan Darrel Coker
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
Disk Drive with Distributed Codeword Blocks
- Publication number 20140201590
- Publication date Jul 17, 2014
- HGST NETHERLANDS B.V.
- Jonathan Darrel Coker
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
IMPLEMENTING COMBINED PHASE AND AMPLITUDE MAGNETIC DEFECT DETECTION...
- Publication number 20130335841
- Publication date Dec 19, 2013
- HGST NETHERLANDS B.V.
- Richard Leo Galbraith
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
IMPLEMENTING CHANNEL SIGNAL PROCESSING ASSIST WITH ECS CONTACT DETE...
- Publication number 20130308220
- Publication date Nov 21, 2013
- HGST NETHERLANDS B.V.
- Xiaodong Che
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
IMPLEMENTING MAGNETIC DEFECT CLASSIFICATION USING PHASE MODULATION
- Publication number 20130100550
- Publication date Apr 25, 2013
- Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands B.V.
- Richard Leo Galbraith
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
CHANNEL-SOURCE LASER-PULSING SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE FOR THERMAL-ASSIST...
- Publication number 20120300599
- Publication date Nov 29, 2012
- John Contreras
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
Detection of synchronization mark from output of matched filter ups...
- Publication number 20090274247
- Publication date Nov 5, 2009
- Richard Leo Galbraith
- H03 - BASIC ELECTRONIC CIRCUITRY

Weldon M. Hanson

Person

Patents Grantslast 30 patents

Adjustable code rates and dynamic ECC in a data storage device

Adjustable code rates and dynamic ECC in a data storage device with...

Sector metrics to estimate health of written data

Offset spiral data track format for data storage devices

Overlapping processing of data tracks

Neural network soft information detector in a read channel

Extendable parity code matrix construction and utilization in a dat...

Position and risk reconstruction in shingled magnetic recording dat...

Signal correction using soft information in a data channel

Data storage device with history dependent write boost

Data storage device synchronizing first channel based on sync mark...

Data storage device reading data from magnetic tape in forward and...

Magnetic recording tape having embedded servo sectors on data tracks

Data storage device with servo field dependent write boost

Data storage device employing embedded servo sectors for magnetic tape

Data storage device employing multi-level parity sectors for data r...

Data storage device employing multi-tier coding for magnetic tape

Data storage device measuring air bearing resonant frequency to cal...

Data storage device aborting write operation based on accumulated t...

Data storage device employing multi-level parity sectors for data r...

Data storage device employing memory efficient processing of un-con...

Data storage device extending erasures for LDPC-type decoding

Data storage device dynamically generating extended redundancy over...

Implementing enhanced track following during read back using head a...

Implementing BER-list modulation code for hard disk drives

Track error-correcting code extension

Magnetic recording disk drive with write position error signal valu...

Spacing measurement improvement in the presence of track mis-regist...

Disk drive with channel and preamp with dynamic write-current contr...

System and method for testing data storage systems utilizing micro-...

Patents Applicationslast 30 patents

Preprocessing for Correcting Insertions and Deletions in DNA Data S...

Nested Error Correction Codes for DNA Data Storage

Adjustable Code Rates and Dynamic ECC in a Data Storage Device with...

Channel Circuit with Asynchronous Sampling from an Oversampled Anal...

Offset Spiral Data Track Format for Data Storage Devices

Adjustable Code Rates and Dynamic ECC in a Data Storage Device

SECTOR METRICS TO ESTIMATE HEALTH OF WRITTEN DATA

POSITION AND RISK RECONSTRUCTION IN SHINGLED MAGNETIC RECORDING DAT...

Overlapping Processing of Data Tracks

Signal Correction Using Soft Information in a Data Channel

Neural Network Soft Information Detector in a Read Channel

DATA STORAGE DEVICE WITH HISTORY DEPENDENT WRITE BOOST

DATA STORAGE DEVICE READING DATA FROM MAGNETIC TAPE IN FORWARD AND...

DATA STORAGE DEVICE EMPLOYING EMBEDDED SERVO SECTORS FOR MAGNETIC TAPE

DATA STORAGE DEVICE EMPLOYING MULTI-LEVEL PARITY SECTORS FOR DATA R...

DATA STORAGE DEVICE EMPLOYING MEMORY EFFICIENT PROCESSING OF UN-CON...

DATA STORAGE DEVICE EMPLOYING MULTI-LEVEL PARITY SECTORS FOR DATA R...

DATA STORAGE DEVICE EXTENDING ERASURES FOR LDPC-TYPE DECODING

DATA STORAGE DEVICE DYNAMICALLY GENERATING EXTENDED REDUNDANCY OVER...

IMPLEMENTING ENHANCED TRACK FOLLOWING DURING READ BACK USING HEAD A...

TRACK ERROR-CORRECTING CODE EXTENSION

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TESTING DATA STORAGE SYSTEMS UTILIZING MICRO-...

DISK DRIVE WITH DIFFERENT SYNCHRONIZATION FIELDS AND SYNCHRONIZATIO...

DISK DRIVE WITH DIFFERENT DATA SECTOR INTEGRATED PREAMBLES IN ADJAC...

Disk Drive with Distributed Codeword Blocks

IMPLEMENTING COMBINED PHASE AND AMPLITUDE MAGNETIC DEFECT DETECTION...

IMPLEMENTING CHANNEL SIGNAL PROCESSING ASSIST WITH ECS CONTACT DETE...

IMPLEMENTING MAGNETIC DEFECT CLASSIFICATION USING PHASE MODULATION

CHANNEL-SOURCE LASER-PULSING SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE FOR THERMAL-ASSIST...

Detection of synchronization mark from output of matched filter ups...