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Stuart Kao — 7 Patents

HTHeadway Technologies: 7 patents #106 of 309Top 35%
Tdk: 4 patents #1,273 of 3,796Top 35%
Fremont, CA: #2,410 of 9,298 inventorsTop 30%
California: #83,669 of 386,348 inventorsTop 25%
Overall (All Time): #680,018 of 4,157,543Top 20%
7 Patents All Time
Stuart Kao has been granted 7 US patents while listed as an inventor at Headway Technologies. The first was granted in 2005 and the most recent in September 2012. Stuart Kao ranks #680,018 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 16.4%). Patent records list Stuart Kao in Fremont, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2005 to 2012Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2012.peak 22005: 1 patents20052007: 1 patents20072008: 1 patents20082010: 1 patents20102011: 1 patents20112012: 2 patents2012

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–7 of 7 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8256096 Method of using xenon ion beams to improve track width definition Chunping Luo, Chaopeng Chen, Takahiko Machita, Daisuke Miyauchi, Jeiwei Chang 2012-09-04
8087157 Process to manufacture magnetic tunnel junction read head Chunping Luo, Chaopeng Chen, Takahiko Machita, Daisuke Miyauchi, Jeiwei Chang 2012-01-03
7864490 CPP head with parasitic shunting reduction Jeiwei Chang, Chao-Peng Chen, Chunping Luo, Kochan Ju, Min Li 2011-01-04
7810227 Process to manufacture CPP GMR read head Chunping Luo, Chaopeng Chen, Takahiko Machita, Daisuke Miyauchi, Jeiwei Chang 2010-10-12
7320170 Xenon ion beam to improve track width definition Chunping Luo, Chaopeng Chen, Takahiko Machita, Daisuke Miyauchi, Jei-Wei Chang 2008-01-22 $46,000
7279269 CPP head with parasitic shunting reduction Jeiwei Chang, Chao-Peng Chen, Chunping Luo, Kochan Ju, Min Li 2007-10-09
6905811 Method to form reduced dimension pattern with good edge roughness Chao-Peng Chen, Chunping Luo, Jei-Wei Chang 2005-06-14