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Simon Liao — 74 Patents

HTHeadway Technologies: 55 patents #24 of 309Top 8%
HBHgst Netherlands, B.V.: 8 patents #98 of 972Top 15%
STSeagate Technology: 4 patents #1,434 of 4,701Top 35%
Hitachi: 1 patents #17,777 of 28,497Top 65%
KIKids Ii: 1 patents #43 of 81Top 55%
AMApplied Magnetics: 1 patents #41 of 65Top 65%
MPMagnetic Peripherals: 1 patents #58 of 149Top 40%
Edina, MN: #12 of 909 inventorsTop 2%
Minnesota: #411 of 52,454 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #26,215 of 4,157,543Top 1%
74 Patents All Time
Simon Liao has been granted 74 US patents while listed as an inventor at Headway Technologies. The first was granted in 1988 and the most recent in August 2017. Simon Liao ranks #26,215 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.63%). Patent records list Simon Liao in Edina, MN, US.

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Showing 1–25 of 74 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9725937 Mattress structure and hinge mechanism Eric A. LANGE, Sean Zou 2017-08-08
9202482 Magnetic sensor having an extended pinned layer with stitched antiferromagnetic pinning layer Quang Le, Guangli Liu, Kochan Ju, Youfeng Zheng 2015-12-01
8941954 Magnetic sensor with extended pinned layer and partial wrap around shield Quang Le, Guangli Liu, Kochan Ju, Youfeng Zheng 2015-01-27
8907666 Magnetic bias structure for magnetoresistive sensor having a scissor structure Quang Le, Shuxia Wang, Guangli Liu, Yongchul Ahn 2014-12-09
8842395 Magnetic sensor having an extended pinned layer and shape enhanced bias structure Kochan Ju, Quang Le, Guangli Liu 2014-09-23
8836059 Shape enhanced pin read head magnetic transducer with stripe height defined first and method of making same Yongchul Ahn, Xiaozhong Dang, Yimin Hsu, Quang Le, Thomas L. Leong +2 more 2014-09-16
8797694 Magnetic sensor having hard bias structure for optimized hard bias field and hard bias coercivity Quang Le, David J. Seagle, Guangli Liu, Yongchul Ahn 2014-08-05
8749926 Scissor magnetic read head with wrap-around magnetic shield Quang Le, Guangli Liu, Stefan Maat, Xiaozhong Dang, David J. Seagle +1 more 2014-06-10
8615868 Method for manufacturing a magnetic sensor using two step ion milling Yongchul Ahn, Xiaozhong Dang, Quang Le 2013-12-31
D657594 Chair Steven R. Knight 2012-04-17
7477491 GMR device having an improved free layer Min Li, Kunliang Zhang, Masashi Sano, Koichi Terunuma, Kochan Ju 2009-01-13
7400475 Patterned, synthetic longitudinally exchange biased GMR sensor Cheng T. Horng, Min Li, Ru-Ying Tong, Yun-Fei Li, You Zheng +2 more 2008-07-15
7262941 FeTa nano-oxide layer as a capping layer for enhancement of giant magnetoresistance in bottom spin valve structures Min Li, Masashi Sano, Kiyoshi Noguchi, Kochan Ju, Cheng T. Horng 2007-08-28
7201947 CPP and MTJ reader design with continuous exchange-coupled free layer Kochan Ju, Youfeng Zheng 2007-04-10
7184248 Synthetic pattern exchange configuration for side reading reduction Min Li, You Feng Zheng, Kochan Ju 2007-02-27
7180712 Shield structure design to improve the stability of an MR head Min Li, Cheng T. Horng, Kochan Ju 2007-02-20
7180716 Fabrication method for an in-stack stabilized synthetic stitched CPP GMR head Min Li, Youfeng Zheng, Kunliang Zhang, Kochan Ju 2007-02-20
7170720 CPP read head for high density and shield noise suppression Charles Lin, Min Li 2007-01-30
7162791 Method of manufacturing integrated spin valve head Kochan Ju, Cheng T. Horng, Youfeng Zheng, Jei-Wei Chang 2007-01-16
7152304 Method for fabricating a patterned, synthetic transverse exchange biased GMR sensor Cheng T. Horng, Min Li, Ru-Ying Tong, Yun-Fei Li, You Zheng +2 more 2006-12-26
7141314 CPP GMR and magnetostriction improvement by laminating Co90Fe10 free layer with thin Fe50Co50 layers Kunliang Zhang, Min Li, Rachid Sbiaa, Yue Liu 2006-11-28
7134186 Method for fabricating a patterned, synthetic transversely exchanged biased GMR sensor Cheng T. Horng, Min Li, Ru-Ying Tong, Yun-Fei Li, You Zheng +2 more 2006-11-14
7130168 Synthetic free layer for CPP GMR Min Li, Kochan Ju 2006-10-31
7089650 Method of manufacturing integrated spin valve head Kochan Ju, Cheng T. Horng, Youfeng Zheng, Jei-Wei Chang 2006-08-15
7074456 Process for manufacturing a bottom spin valve structure Kochan Ju, Cheng T. Horng, Youfeng Zheng, Jei-Wei Chang 2006-07-11