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Ian L. Sanders — 17 Patents

IBM: 14 patents #8,031 of 70,183Top 15%
MAMaxtor: 2 patents #206 of 656Top 35%
BGBruker Daltonik Gmbh: 1 patents #50 of 124Top 45%
Sunnyvale, CA: #1,601 of 14,302 inventorsTop 15%
California: #35,467 of 386,348 inventorsTop 10%
Overall (All Time): #263,971 of 4,157,543Top 7%
17 Patents All Time
Ian L. Sanders has been granted 17 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1983 and the most recent in February 2011. Ian L. Sanders ranks #263,971 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 6.3%). Patent records list Ian L. Sanders in Sunnyvale, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1983 to 2011Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 1983.peak 31983: 3 patents19831984: 2 patents1986: 1 patents19861990: 2 patents1991: 2 patents19911992: 1 patents1993: 1 patents19931994: 1 patents1997: 1 patents19972005: 1 patents2006: 1 patents20062011: 1 patents2011

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–17 of 17 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7893402 Measurement of the mobility of mass-selected ions Gökhan Baykut, Jochen Franzen 2011-02-22 $11,274,000
6998183 Magnetic recording medium with multilayer carbon overcoat Shahid A. Pirzada, Jia-Jay Liu, Kenneth E. Johnson 2006-02-14 $13,035,000
6875492 Carbon overcoat for magnetic recording medium Shahid A. Pirzada, Jia-Jay Liu, Kenneth E. Johnson 2005-04-05 $20,322,000
5598308 Magnetoresistive sensor having multilayer thin film structure Bernard Dieny, Bruce Alvin Gurney, Stuart Stephen Papworth Parkin, Virgil S. Speriosu, Dennis R. Wilhoit 1997-01-28 $23,855,000
5341261 Magnetoresistive sensor having multilayer thin film structure Bernard Dieny, Bruce Alvin Gurney, Stuart Stephen Papworth Parkin, Virgil S. Speriosu, Dennis R. Wilhoit 1994-08-23 $13,412,000
5227212 Magnetic recording disk, magnetoresistive read head, inductive write head combination Richard H. Ahlert, James K. Howard, Steven E. Lambert 1993-07-13 $9,483,000
5151294 Method for forming a protective film on a slider air bearing surface in a magnetic recording disk file Herman E. Bleich, Luis P. Franco 1992-09-29 $12,999,000
5051288 Thin film magnetic recording disk comprising alternating layers of a CoNi or CoPt alloy and a non-magnetic spacer layer Richard H. Ahlert, James K. Howard, Steven E. Lambert 1991-09-24 $15,462,000
5030494 Carbon overcoat for a thin film magnetic recording disk containing discrete clusters of tungsten (W) or tungsten carbide (WC) which project from the surface of the overcoat Richard H. Ahlert, James K. Howard, Kwang Ki Kim, Anthony W. Wu 1991-07-09 $11,976,000
4935278 Thin film magnetic recording disk and fabrication process Mohamad Towfik Krounbi, Alvin M. Patlach 1990-06-19 $26,220,000
4912585 Discrete track thin film magnetic recording disk with embedded servo information Karl A. Belser, Tarek Makansi 1990-03-27 $13,617,000
4589037 Servo control system using a varying frequency servo pattern for read/write head positioning in a magnetic recording disk file Shen Jen, William John Kabelac 1986-05-13 $13,238,000
4458335 Detector structure for ion-implanted contiguous-disk bubble devices William John Kabelac 1984-07-03 $12,144,000
4441166 Passive annihilator for contiguous-disk bubble devices William John Kabelac 1984-04-03 $11,562,000
4403305 Non-data reversing bubble transfer switch for contiguous disks George E. Keefe 1983-09-06 $26,990,000
4402060 Gap tolerant merge element for contiguous-disk bubble devices John S. Best 1983-08-30 $22,614,000
4394746 Swap gate for ion-implanted contiguous-disk bubble devices Richard George Hirko, Kochan Ju 1983-07-19 $18,760,000