# William A Goddard — Patents explained on PatentBrief

William A Goddard has 1 landmark patent explained in plain English on PatentBrief.

- [How Early Hard Disk Drives Accessed Data Quickly](https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/3503060/hard-disk-drive) — granted 1970
  A 1970 patent detailing a mechanical system for moving read-write heads across magnetic disks to retrieve stored information rapidly.

**Full profile:** https://patentbrief.org/inventor/william-a-goddard

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