Inventor
HELMICK DANIEL L
US36 patents
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WESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC
32 patentsUS8780479B1Jul 15, 2014
Disk drive executing jerk seeks to rotate pivot ball bearings relative to races
WESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC78 citations96
US11170869B1Nov 9, 2021
Dual data protection in storage devices
WESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC20 citations94
US11126378B1Sep 21, 2021
Rate limit on the transitions of zones to open
WESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC21 citations94
US11055176B1Jul 6, 2021
Storage devices hiding parity swapping behavior
WESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC12 citations85
US11294827B2Apr 5, 2022
Non-sequential zoned namespaces
WESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC8 citations84
US11200162B2Dec 14, 2021
Condensing logical to physical table pointers in SSDs utilizing zoned namespaces
WESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC9 citations84
US11409459B2Aug 9, 2022
Data parking for SSDs with zones
WESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC5 citations73
US11210027B2Dec 28, 2021
Weighting of read commands to zones in storage devices
WESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC2 citations73
US11200161B2Dec 14, 2021
Keeping zones open with intermediate padding
WESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC2 citations73
US11138066B1Oct 5, 2021
Parity swapping to DRAM
WESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC2 citations73
US11209989B2Dec 28, 2021
Zoned namespaces in solid-state drives
WESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC4 citations69
US12079504B2Sep 3, 2024
Data integrity protection of SSDs utilizing streams
WESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC0 citations62
US11853571B2Dec 26, 2023
Storage devices hiding parity swapping behavior
WESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC0 citations62
US11847337B2Dec 19, 2023
Data parking for ZNS devices
WESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC0 citations62
US11656984B2May 23, 2023
Keeping zones open with intermediate padding
WESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC0 citations62
US11640266B2May 2, 2023
Rate limit on the transitions of zones to open
WESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC0 citations62
US11561717B2Jan 24, 2023
Data integrity protection of SSDs utilizing streams
WESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC1 citations62
US11520523B2Dec 6, 2022
Data integrity protection of ZNS needs
WESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC1 citations62
US11520660B2Dec 6, 2022
Storage devices hiding parity swapping behavior
WESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC0 citations62
US11194494B2Dec 7, 2021
Storage devices hiding parity swapping behavior
WESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC0 citations62
US11061620B2Jul 13, 2021
Bandwidth limiting in solid state drives
WESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC0 citations62
US12079487B2Sep 3, 2024
Zoned namespaces in solid-state drives
WESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC0 citations60
US11726679B2Aug 15, 2023
Applying endurance groups to zoned namespaces
WESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC0 citations60
US11200003B2Dec 14, 2021
Bounded latency and command non service methods and apparatus
WESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC0 citations60
US11537510B2Dec 27, 2022
Storage devices having minimum write sizes of data
WESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC0 citations52
US11500727B2Nov 15, 2022
ZNS parity swapping to DRAM
WESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC0 citations52
US11416161B2Aug 16, 2022
Zone formation for zoned namespaces
WESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC0 citations52
US11294598B2Apr 5, 2022
Storage devices having minimum write sizes of data
WESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC0 citations52
US11226761B2Jan 18, 2022
Weighted read commands and open block timer for storage devices
WESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC0 citations52
US11194521B1Dec 7, 2021
Rate limit on the transitions of streams to open
WESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC0 citations52
US10770431B1Sep 8, 2020
Memory die layouts for failure protection in SSDs
WESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC0 citations52
US11436153B2Sep 6, 2022
Moving change log tables to align to zones
WESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC0 citations51
SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLC
3 patentsUS10679722B2Jun 9, 2020
Storage system with several integrated components and method for use therewith
SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLC10 citations80
US11610642B2Mar 21, 2023
Storage system with multiple components and method for use therewith
SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLC2 citations69
US11211141B2Dec 28, 2021
Storage system with multiple components and method for use therewith
SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLC1 citations59