G06F 1/3268
Power saving in hard disk drive
Official title: {Power saving in hard disk drive}
G06F1/3268 (Power saving in hard disk drive) appears on 719 US grants and 785 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 719
- Published applications
- 785
- Assignees
- 206
- Inventors
- 1,493
- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
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| 2003 | 8 | 11 |
| 2004 | 5 | 15 |
| 2005 | 12 | 37 |
| 2006 | 11 | 29 |
| 2007 | 16 | 39 |
| 2008 | 34 | 33 |
| 2009 | 25 | 67 |
| 2010 | 26 | 47 |
| 2011 | 37 | 32 |
| 2012 | 54 | 55 |
| 2013 | 41 | 37 |
| 2014 | 49 | 59 |
| 2015 | 43 | 36 |
| 2016 | 49 | 54 |
| 2017 | 33 | 32 |
| 2018 | 39 | 30 |
| 2019 | 29 | 30 |
| 2020 | 37 | 29 |
| 2021 | 28 | 26 |
| 2022 | 22 | 19 |
| 2023 | 22 | 29 |
| 2024 | 27 | 10 |
| 2025 | 16 | 12 |
| 2026 | 5 | 6 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Sleep mode management of hard disk drive22 Sep 2026US 12,743,147 B2Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L. P.
- Coordinated control method and system for hard disk heat dissipation, device, medium, and storage server4 Aug 2026US 12,700,433 B2Suzhou Metabrain Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd.
- Write buffer extensions for storage interface controllers2 Jun 2026US 12,645,393 B2Micron Technology, Inc.
- External storage access mode10 Mar 2026US 12,572,274 B2Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L. P.
- Security technique for digital data on digital storage medium27 Jan 2026US 12,536,341 B2International Business Machines Corporation
- Powering down memory device based on disabling background operation associated with memory device26 Mar 2026US 2026/0086720 A1QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Dynamic compression engine management26 Mar 2026US 2026/0086869 A1Dell Products L. P.
- Storage chassis and data processing method thereof, and storage system26 Mar 2026US 2026/0086967 A1New H3C Information Technologies Co., Ltd.
- Multi-voltage operation for driving a multi-mode channel5 Feb 2026US 2026/0037052 A1Lodestar Licensing Group LLC
- Storage device energy consumption evaluation and response29 Jan 2026US 2026/0030038 A1NetApp, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- RAID controller using capacitor energy source to flush volatile cache data to non-volatile memory during main power outage342US 7,536,506 B2Dot Hill Systems Corporation · 2009
- Media player with instant play capability229US 6,934,812 B1Apple Computer, Inc. · 2005
- Media player with instant play capability215US 7,234,026 B2Apple Inc. · 2007
- Information processing equipment and power consumption control method208US 7,412,615 B2Sony Corporation · 2008
- Information processing apparatus, power control method and recording medium to control a plurality of driving units according to the type of data to be processed203US 6,931,557 B2Fujitsu Limited · 2005