Patents by Inventor Dwight Kinney

Dwight Kinney 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).

  • Adapting compensation for repeatable runout of sectors based on tracked sector adaptation status
    Patent number: 7139149
    Abstract: Methods, servo controllers, disk drives, and computer program products are provided for adapting compensation for repeatable runout (RRO) of sectors of a disk in a disk drive. RRO of a plurality of sectors of the disk is compensated. A status of whether the RRO compensation has been adapted is tracked for at least some of the sectors of the disk, and corresponding records are formed based on the statuses. The RRO compensation of the tracked sectors is selectively adapted or not adapted based on the records.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2006
    Assignee: Maxtor Corporation
    Inventors: Yu Sun, David Jeppson, Dwight Kinney