Patents by Inventor Phillip Kevin McGinnis

Phillip Kevin McGinnis 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).

  • Adaptive mitigation of adjacent track interference (ATI) on a recording medium
    Patent number: 9099155
    Abstract: Apparatus and method for adaptively mitigating adjacent track interference (ATI) effects on a data recording medium. In some embodiments, a write count value is accumulated for a first track responsive to successive writes to a second track on the data recording medium. For each of the successive writes, the accumulated write count value for the first track is incremented by a different variable amount based on temperature. The first track is refreshed responsive to the accumulated write count reaching a selected threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventors: Abhay Kataria, Michael D. Schaff, Sandeep Bhushan, Kevin M. Bailey, Phillip Kevin McGinnis, Mai Ghaly