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HELMICK DANIEL L

US36 patents
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WESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC

32 patents
US8780479B1Jul 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 patents

HELMICK DANIEL L

1 patent