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Yongjun Zhao — 4 Patents in 2017

STSeagate Technology: 4 patents #76 of 686Top 15%
Eden Prairie, MN: #29 of 280 inventorsTop 15%
Minnesota: #550 of 7,066 inventorsTop 8%
Overall (2017): #34,287 of 506,227Top 7%
4 Patents 2017

Issued Patents 2017

Showing 1–4 of 4 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
9824709 Near field transducers (NFTS) including barrier layer and methods of forming Martin Blaber, Jie Gong, Dimitar V. Dimitrov, Steve Riemer, Michael C. Kautzky +1 more 2017-11-21
9666220 Devices including a near field transducer and at least one associated adhesion layer Vijay Karthik Sankar, Tong Zhao, Michael C. Kautzky, Hui Brickner, Sarbeswar Sahoo 2017-05-30
9601135 Interlayer for device including NFT and cladding layers Tong Zhao, Michael C. Kautzky, Michael Allen Seigler, Jay Jayashankar, Xiaoyue Huang 2017-03-21
9558764 Waveguide of a write head with reduced cross sectional area proximate a near-field transducer Ruoxi Yang, Pierre Asselin, James Gary Wessel, Tae-Woo Lee, Werner Scholz +1 more 2017-01-31