Patents by Inventor Richard Clinton Dyer

Richard Clinton Dyer 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).

  • Method and system for reducing production cycle time of a hard disk drive by featuring an inventoried generic hard disk drive with customized microcode
    Patent number: 7447557
    Abstract: A method and system for reducing production cycle time of a hard disk drive and a generic hard disk drive ready for customization. A generic disk drive is provided for stocking until a shipment order is issued. When a shipment order defining customer requirements is received, a generic disk drive from stock is pulled from stock. Then, the generic disk drive is featured to meet the customer requirements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2008
    Assignee: Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands, B.V.
    Inventor: Richard Clinton Dyer
  • Method, apparatus and program storage device for providing a cascading timeline of manufacturing events leading to completion of a manufactured product
    Patent number: 7324860
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and program storage device for providing a cascading timeline of manufacturing events leading to completion of a manufactured product is disclosed. A cascading timeline, or waterfall chart, is updated and distributed weekly to provide week-to-week analysis for supply increase activities, week to week analysis for excess inventory solutions and consolidation of supply issue factor by product by week.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2008
    Assignee: Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands B.V.
    Inventor: Richard Clinton Dyer