Issued Patents 2016
| Patent # | Title | Co-Inventors | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |