Patents by Inventor Lawrence Allen Wilcox

Lawrence Allen Wilcox has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Microactuator control that avoids thermal asperities on disk surfaces
    Patent number: 7804661
    Abstract: While a microactuator is controlled to cause a head to follow a track on a disk surface, one or more other microactuators are separately controlled to offset other heads away from locations of thermal asperities on other associated disk surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2010
    Assignee: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventors: Lawrence Allen Wilcox, Andrew Robert Motzko
  • MICROACTUATOR CONTROL THAT AVOIDS THERMAL ASPERITIES ON DISK SURFACES
    Publication number: 20100134919
    Abstract: While a microactuator is controlled to cause a head to follow a track on a disk surface, one or more other microactuators are separately controlled to offset other heads away from locations of thermal asperities on other associated disk surfaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2008
    Publication date: June 3, 2010
    Inventors: Lawrence Allen Wilcox, Andrew Robert Motzko