Inventor
HANSON WELDON M
US33 patents
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WESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC
24 patentsUS10417089B2Sep 17, 2019
Data storage device extending erasures for LDPC-type decoding
WESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC26 citations94
US12099409B2Sep 24, 2024
Adjustable code rates and dynamic ECC in a data storage device
WESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC3 citations73
US11138996B1Oct 5, 2021
Data storage device employing embedded servo sectors for magnetic tape
WESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC2 citations73
US11049520B1Jun 29, 2021
Data storage device employing multi-tier coding for magnetic tape
WESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC4 citations73
US10530390B2Jan 7, 2020
Data storage device employing memory efficient processing of un-converged codewords
WESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC5 citations73
US10606699B2Mar 31, 2020
Data storage device employing multi-level parity sectors for data recovery procedure
WESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC6 citations72
US10373645B2Aug 6, 2019
Data storage device dynamically generating extended redundancy over interleaves of a data track
WESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC2 citations72
US12020733B2Jun 25, 2024
Sector metrics to estimate health of written data
WESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC2 citations71
US11764813B1Sep 19, 2023
Extendable parity code matrix construction and utilization in a data storage device
WESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC3 citations71
US11200912B1Dec 14, 2021
Data storage device with servo field dependent write boost
WESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC6 citations71
US10783913B1Sep 22, 2020
Data storage device measuring air bearing resonant frequency to calibrate fly height touchdown power
WESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC2 citations68
US12474994B2Nov 18, 2025
Preprocessing for correcting insertions and deletions in DNA data storage
WESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC0 citations62
US12430202B2Sep 30, 2025
Nested error correction codes for DNA data storage
WESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC0 citations62
US12028091B2Jul 2, 2024
Adjustable code rates and dynamic ECC in a data storage device with write verification
WESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC0 citations62
US11386927B1Jul 12, 2022
Data storage device synchronizing first channel based on sync mark detected in second channel
WESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC0 citations62
US11373682B2Jun 28, 2022
Data storage device reading data from magnetic tape in forward and reverse direction
WESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC0 citations62
US11289123B2Mar 29, 2022
Magnetic recording tape having embedded servo sectors on data tracks
WESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC0 citations62
US11055171B2Jul 6, 2021
Data storage device employing multi-level parity sectors for data recovery procedure
WESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC1 citations62
US12445142B2Oct 14, 2025
Channel circuit with asynchronous sampling from an oversampled analog-to-digital converter
WESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC0 citations61
US11948602B2Apr 2, 2024
Offset spiral data track format for data storage devices
WESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC0 citations61
US11482247B2Oct 25, 2022
Data storage device with history dependent write boost
WESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC0 citations61
US11716097B2Aug 1, 2023
Signal correction using soft information in a data channel
WESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC0 citations60
US11756581B1Sep 12, 2023
Position and risk reconstruction in shingled magnetic recording data storage devices
WESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC0 citations52
US11929093B2Mar 12, 2024
Overlapping processing of data tracks
WESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC0 citations51