Steven E Stupp

US Patent:

6597539, Jul 22, 2003

Filed:

Mar 31, 1999

Appl. No.:

09/283368

Inventors:

Steven Stupp - Mountain View CA
Richard Blanco - Redwood City CA
Timothy A. Riener - Fremont CA

Assignee:

Maxtor Corporation - Longmont CO

International Classification:

G11B 553

US Classification:

3602457, 360292

Abstract:

A suspension assembly for supporting a read/write head/slider assembly adjacent to a rotating storage disk with dynamically adjustable flying height for use within a hard disk drive is provided. The suspension assembly includes a generally elongated loadbeam that has a baseplate defined at a first end thereof and a gimbaled flexure portion defined at a second end thereof. The flexure portion includes a pair of flexure legs and a flexure tongue. The pair of flexure legs extend from the flexure tongue and each leg attaches to an opposite side of the loadbeam. The flexure tongue generally provides a mounting surface for the read/write head/slider assembly. Strips of thermal-expansion material are attached to the flexure portion. These strips are connected to a power source via a power conductor. When the strips are energized, they expand and deform a portion of the flexure portion.

US Patent:

6671232, Dec 30, 2003

Filed:

Jul 25, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/916134

Inventors:

Steven E. Stupp - Los Altos CA

Assignee:

Maxtor Corporation - Longmont CO

International Classification:

G11B 1100

US Classification:

369 1302, 369 1326

Abstract:

A technique for determining the recording medium temperature, thereby enabling high track density in Hybrid recording. This allows compensation for changes in the ambient temperature and variations in the laser power over its life. Such a temperature measuring technique also enables laser power shaping of the spot size/thermal contour in the medium, providing smaller spot size definition with a given optical system. Baseline modulation is a sensitive probe of the temperature gradient between a magneto-resistive read element (anisotropic or giant) and the surface of a disk. By calibrating the temperature rise (above ambient) of the read element, this technique can be used to determine the disk surface temperature.

US Patent:

6697203, Feb 24, 2004

Filed:

May 24, 2000

Appl. No.:

09/578262

Inventors:

Nelson Cheng - Fremont CA
Bill Higgins - Palo Alto CA
Hai Nguy - San Jose CA
Steven Stupp - Mountain View CA
Steven Lambert - San Jose CA

Assignee:

Maxtor Corporation - Milpitas CA

International Classification:

G11B 2736

US Classification:

360 31, 360 53

Abstract:

A method and apparatus for determining a lifetime for a medium to fail due to thermal decay of a magnetization pattern is provided. Different stress magnetic fields are applied to a write head for writing to a machine-readable medium resulting in a magnetic field on the medium. A time to failure, corresponding to each of the different stress magnetic fields, is determined, the time to failure being an amount of time for an amplitude of a signal on the medium to degrade beyond a predetermined failure criteria. A time to failure without a stress magnetic field is determined based on the corresponding times to failure determined for each of the different stress currents.

US Patent:

7223234, May 29, 2007

Filed:

Jul 8, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/177063

Inventors:

Steven Elliot Stupp - San Carlos CA, US
Chris Carpenter - Sunnyvale CA, US
Lawrence Newman - Katonah NY, US
Gert Lanckriet - Berkeley CA, US

Assignee:

Monitrix, Inc. - San Carlos CA

International Classification:

A61B 5/00

US Classification:

600300, 600301, 128920, 128898

Abstract:

An apparatus, and related method, for determining one or more association variables is described. The apparatus includes at least one processor, at least one memory, and at least one program module. The program module is stored in the memory and is configurable to be executed by the processor. The program module includes instructions for determining a statistical relationship between one or more temporal onsets corresponding to one or more events and a pattern of occurrence of a compound variable. The compound variable corresponds at least to a pattern of occurrence of a first variable and a pattern of occurrence of a second variable. The determining includes contributions from presence and absence information in the pattern of occurrence of the compound variable.

US Patent:

7311666, Dec 25, 2007

Filed:

Jul 8, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/178044

Inventors:

Steven Elliot Stupp - San Carlos CA, US
Chris Carpenter - Sunnyvale CA, US
Lawrence Newman - Katonah NY, US

Assignee:

Trigeminal Solutions, Inc. - San Carlos CA

International Classification:

A61B 5/00

US Classification:

600300, 128920

Abstract:

An apparatus, and related method, for collecting information, such as that associated with one or more variables, is described. The apparatus may include at least one processor, at least one memory, and at least one program module. The program module may be stored in the memory and may be configurable to be executed by the processor. The program module may include instructions for a set of pre-determined questions, instructions for asking, one or more times during a time interval, a subset of pre-determined questions in the set of pre-determined questions, instructions for receiving, one or more times during the time interval, answers to the subset of pre-determined questions, and instructions for receiving configuration instructions. The configuration instructions may select the subset of pre-determined questions that are asked.

US Patent:

8038613, Oct 18, 2011

Filed:

Sep 27, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/529054

Inventors:

Steven Elliot Stupp - San Carlos CA, US
Chris Carpenter - Sunnyvale CA, US
Steve Gaskill - Campbell CA, US

International Classification:

A61B 5/00

US Classification:

600300, 600301, 705 3, 128898, 128120

Abstract:

An apparatus, and related method, for determining one or more association variables is described. The apparatus includes at least one processor, at least one memory, and at least one program module. The program module is stored in the memory and is configurable to be executed by the processor. The program module includes instructions for determining a statistical relationship between one or more temporal onsets corresponding to one or more events and a pattern of occurrence of a compound variable. The compound variable corresponds at least to a pattern of occurrence of a first variable and a pattern of occurrence of a second variable. The determining includes contributions from presence and absence information in the pattern of occurrence of the compound variable.

US Patent:

8062219, Nov 22, 2011

Filed:

Jul 31, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/496755

Inventors:

Steven Elliot Stupp - San Carlos CA, US
Lawrence Newman - Katonah NY, US
Gert Lanckriet - San Diego CA, US

Assignee:

Trigeminal Solutions - San Carlos CA

International Classification:

A61B 5/00

US Classification:

600300, 600301, 600534, 600544, 600545, 34053912, 705 2

Abstract:

An apparatus, and related method, for determining one or more association variables is described. The apparatus includes at least one processor, at least one memory, and at least one program module stored in the memory configured to be executed by the processor. The program module includes instructions for selecting a subset of temporal onsets in a set of temporal onsets, instructions for determining a statistical relationship between the subset of temporal onsets and a pattern of occurrence of a variable, and instructions for identifying the variable as a migraine variable in accordance with the statistical relationship. The subset of temporal onsets includes one or more onsets corresponding to one or more migraines experienced by at least one individual, and the set of temporal onsets includes the subset of temporal onsets and one or more temporal onsets corresponding to one or more additional headaches experienced by at least the one individual.

US Patent:

8123683, Feb 28, 2012

Filed:

May 31, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/809807

Inventors:

Steven Elliot Stupp - San Carlos CA, US
Robert F. McCormick - San Jose CA, US
Douglas G. Bailey - Suwanee GA, US

Assignee:

Trigeminal Solutions, Inc. - San Carlos CA

International Classification:

A61B 5/00

US Classification:

600300, 600301, 705 3, 128898

Abstract:

An apparatus for aggregating individuals based on variables associated with a type of headache is described. The apparatus may include at least one processor, at least one memory, and at least one program module. The program module may be stored in the memory and may be configured or configurable to be executed by the processor. The program module may include instructions for receiving a list of variables, where the variables in the list of variables may be triggers that at least in part induce a headache associated with the type of headache in at least one individual if at least the one individual is exposed to one or more of the variables. The program module may include instructions for selecting a first forum from multiple forums. Note that the selection is based on at least a subset of the variables in the list of variables, the first forum is associated with the type of headache and at least the subset of the variables, and the first forum facilitates exchange of first information associated with the type of headache. Furthermore, the program module may include instructions for providing second information associated with the first forum to at least the one individual.