Granted Patent
Utility
US 6,344,938 · App. 09/535,108
Method and apparatus for preemptive head crash avoidance in a disk drive
Inventor:
Gordon James Smith
Patented Case
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Granted: Feb 5, 2002
Filed: Mar 24, 2000
Inventor
Gordon James Smith
Assignee (at issue)
International Business Machines Corporation
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