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Yan Wu — 74 Patents

HTHeadway Technologies: 67 patents #18 of 309Top 6%

STSeagate Technology: 2 patents #2,476 of 4,722Top 55%

MAMaxtor: 1 patents #329 of 656Top 55%

ZTZte: 1 patents #1,461 of 3,593Top 45%

Cupertino, CA: #151 of 6,989 inventorsTop 3%

California: #4,029 of 386,348 inventorsTop 2%

Overall (All Time): #26,215 of 4,157,543Top 1%

74 Patents All Time

Yan Wu has been granted 74 US patents while listed as an inventor at Headway Technologies. The first was granted in 2007 and the most recent in June 2025. Yan Wu ranks #26,215 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.63%). Patent records list Yan Wu in Cupertino, CA, US.

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Patent #	Title	Co-Inventors	Date	Approx Value ⓘ
12322419	Spin injection assisted magnetic recording	—	2025-06-03
12236984	Perpendicular magnetic recording writer with tunable pole side bridge design	Yue Liu, Moris Dovek	2025-02-25
12211526	Adaptive bias control for magnetic recording head	Glen Garfunkel, Wenyu Chen, Kunliang Zhang, Min Li, Shohei Kawasaki	2025-01-28
12211525	Reader noise reduction using spin hall effects	Wenyu Chen	2025-01-28
D1056737	Meat thermometer	—	2025-01-07
11887635	Adaptive bias control for magnetic recording head	Glen Garfunkel, Wenyu Chen, Kunliang Zhang, Min Li, Shohei Kawasaki	2024-01-30
11857050	Smart luggage case and a method for controlling the operation of an assisting luggage case	—	2024-01-02
11823712	Built-in resistance sensor for measuring slider level pole width at point “A” (PWA) for PMR/MAMR writers	—	2023-11-21
11804242	Reader noise reduction using spin hall effects	Wenyu Chen	2023-10-31
11756577	Spin injection assisted magnetic recording	—	2023-09-12
11587582	Reader noise reduction using spin hall effects	Wenyu Chen	2023-02-21
11380355	Adaptive bias control for magnetic recording head	Glen Garfunkel, Wenyu Chen, Kunliang Zhang, Min Li, Shohei Kawasaki	2022-07-05
11205447	Reader noise reduction using spin hall effects	Wenyu Chen	2021-12-21
11189304	Spin injection assisted magnetic recording	—	2021-11-30
11152021	Perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) writer with tunable pole protrusion (TPP) designs for 2 terabytes/platter (TB/P) and beyond	Yue Liu	2021-10-19
11043234	Spin transfer torque oscillator (STO) with spin torque injection to a flux generating layer (FGL) from two sides	—	2021-06-22
11043232	Spin torque reversal assisted magnetic recording (STRAMR) device having a width substantially equal to that of a traililng shield	—	2021-06-22
11024333	Magnetic read head structure with improved bottom shield design for better reader performance	—	2021-06-01
11017806	Alternative designs for magnetic recording assisted by a single Spin Hall Effect (SHE) layer in the write gap	Wenyu Chen	2021-05-25
11011193	Dual flux change layer (FCL) assisted magnetic recording	Wenyu Chen, Shohei Kawasaki	2021-05-18
10991386	Tapered junction shield for self-compensation of asymmetry with increasing aspect ratio for tunneling magneto-resistance (TMR) type read head	Urmimala Roy	2021-04-27
10984824	Method of forming tapered junction shield for self-compensation of asymmetry with increasing aspect ratio for tunneling magneto-resistance (TMR) type read head	Urmimala Roy	2021-04-20
10950262	Magnetic reader sensor with shield-to-shield spacing improvement and better free layer-to-shield spacing control	Wenyu Chen	2021-03-16
10832707	Shape designs of magnetic flux guiding devices all around the main pole in assisted writing applications	Wenyu Chen, Ying Liu, Yuhui Tang	2020-11-10
10811034	Heat sink structure for microwave-assisted magnetic recording (MAMR) head	Kowang Liu	2020-10-20