Patents by Inventor Michael J. Therrien

Michael J. Therrien 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).

  • Data storage device employing variable size interleave written track segments
    Patent number: 9281009
    Abstract: A data storage device is disclosed comprising a head actuated over a disk comprising a plurality of data tracks. Data is encoded into a first number of codewords, and the first number of codewords are interleave written to a first segment of a first data track. Data is encoded into a second number of codewords, and the second number of codewords are interleave written to a second segment of the first data track. The first number of codewords is different than the second number of codewords, and a size of the first segment is different than a size of the second segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Derrick E. Burton, Michael J. Therrien, Thao Hieu Banh, Tom S. Chan