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James Gary Wessel — 5 Patents in 2016

STSeagate Technology: 4 patents #63 of 697Top 10%
Savage, MN: #2 of 62 inventorsTop 4%
Minnesota: #314 of 6,786 inventorsTop 5%
Overall (2016): #27,780 of 481,213Top 6%
5 Patents 2016

Issued Patents 2016

Showing 1–5 of 5 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
9396749 Waveguide core layer with reduced downtrack thickness proximate a near-field transducer Pierre Asselin, Ruoxi Yang 2016-07-19
9390741 Head transducer with multiple resistance temperature sensors for head-medium spacing and contact detection Michael Thomas Johnson, Dongming Liu, Huazhou Lou, Declan Macken, Timothy W. Stoebe +1 more 2016-07-12
9336800 Near-field transducer peg encapsulation Sarbeswar Sahoo, Michael C. Kautzky 2016-05-10
9304253 Near-field transducer with flare peg Zoran Jandric, Lina Cao, Werner Scholz 2016-04-05
9281659 Thermal management of laser diode mode hopping for heat assisted media recording Karim Tatah, Mourad Benakli 2016-03-08