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2016
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Seagate Technology
›
Victor Boris Sapozhnikov
VS
Victor Boris Sapozhnikov
— 10 Patents in 2016
ST
Seagate Technology
:
10
patents
#15
of
699
Top 3%
Minnetonka, MN
:
#1
of
129
inventors
Top 1%
Minnesota
:
#76
of
6,786
inventors
Top 2%
Overall
(2016):
#6,044
of
481,213
Top 2%
10
Patents 2016
Issued Patents
2016
Showing
1–10
of
10
patents
Patent #
Title
Co-Inventors
Date
Approx Value ⓘ
9508366
Reader structure
Mohammed Sharia Ullah Patwari
2016-11-29
$10,548,000
9478239
Reader structure with barrier layer contacting shield
Mohammed Sharia Ullah Patwari
2016-10-25
$12,475,000
9437224
Stack with wide seed layer
Eric W. Singleton
,
Jae-Young Yi
,
Konstantin Nikolaev
,
Stacey Christine Wakeham
,
Shaun Eric McKinlay
2016-09-06
$11,710,000
9406321
Read head with multiple reader stacks
Mark Thomas Kief
,
Thomas Roy Boonstra
,
Harry Sam Edelman
2016-08-02
$15,075,000
9343091
Sensor structure having layer with high magnetic moment
Kevin McNeill
2016-05-17
$6,502,000
9324342
Dual reader structure
Harry Sam Edelman
,
Mohammed Sharia Ullah Patwari
2016-04-26
$5,533,000
9286921
Reader sensor structure having front bottom shield adjacent recessed AFM layer
Mohammed Sharia Ullah Patwari
2016-03-15
$6,235,000
9269381
Sensor structure having layer with high magnetic moment
Kevin McNeill
2016-02-23
$8,481,000
9251815
Magnetoresistive sensor with AFM-stabilized bottom shield
Eric W. Singleton
,
Konstantin Nikolaev
,
Liwen Tan
,
Jae-Young Yi
,
Mohammed Sharia Ullah Patwari
2016-02-02
$6,708,000
9240200
Magnetic element with crossed anisotropies
Mark William Covington
,
Wonjoon Jung
,
Dimitar Velikov Demitrov
,
Dian Song
,
Taras Pohkil
2016-01-19
$7,635,000
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