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Gary M. Decad — 11 Patents

IBM: 10 patents #10,925 of 70,183Top 20%
Globalfoundries: 1 patents #2,221 of 4,424Top 55%
Palo Alto, CA: #2,109 of 9,675 inventorsTop 25%
California: #56,011 of 386,348 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #435,149 of 4,157,543Top 15%
11 Patents All Time
Gary M. Decad has been granted 11 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 2007 and the most recent in May 2023. Gary M. Decad ranks #435,149 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 10.5%). Patent records list Gary M. Decad in Palo Alto, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2007 to 2023Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2016.peak 22007: 1 patents20072009: 1 patents20092013: 1 patents20132015: 1 patents20152016: 2 patents20162017: 1 patents20172018: 1 patents20182020: 1 patents20202021: 1 patents20212023: 1 patents2023

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–11 of 11 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11664048 Multi-spool tape recording apparatus Robert G. Biskeborn, Hoodin Hamidi, Edwin R. Childers 2023-05-30 $4,328,000
11043237 Multi-spool tape recording apparatus Robert G. Biskeborn, Hoodin Hamidi, Edwin R. Childers 2021-06-22 $6,016,000
10832721 Flexible media burnishing apparatus and method Robert G. Biskeborn, Jason Liang, Calvin S. Lo 2020-11-10 $848,000
10014022 Flexible media burnishing apparatus and method Robert G. Biskeborn, Jason Liang, Calvin S. Lo 2018-07-03 $3,207,000
9558776 Durable coating for magnetic tape recording media Robert G. Biskeborn, Calvin S. Lo 2017-01-31 $3,813,000
9355678 Magnetic storage device with multiple read element arrays to determine quality of recorded data Robert G. Biskeborn, Calvin S. Lo 2016-05-31 $4,553,000
9269375 Multi-format read drive Robert G. Biskeborn, Jason Liang 2016-02-23 $655,000
8982495 Multi-format read drive Robert G. Biskeborn, Jason Liang 2015-03-17 $4,972,000
8444865 Magnetic recording head coating and method Robert G. Biskeborn, Calvin S. Lo, Cherngye Hwang 2013-05-21 $6,083,000
7508612 Asperity data storage system, method and medium Robert G. Biskeborn 2009-03-24 $7,908,000
7265922 Asperity data storage system, method and medium Robert G. Biskeborn 2007-09-04 $5,939,000