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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 31, 2013

Filed:

Sep. 14, 2012
Applicants:

David Rutherford, San Jose, CA (US);

Man Cheung, San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

David Rutherford, San Jose, CA (US);

Man Cheung, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/09 (2006.01); G11B 21/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method including recording time stamps for a repeating characteristic of a spindle back electromotive force (BEMF) signal and comparing one or more of the recorded time stamps for the repeating characteristic of the spindle BEMF signal with an expected value for the one or more recorded time stamps to detect a timing error associated with writing a servo pattern on a machine readable medium of a self-servo write (SSW) system. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.


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