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James K. Howard — 54 Patents

IBM: 49 patents #1,780 of 70,183Top 3%
STSeagate Technology: 5 patents #1,086 of 4,626Top 25%
Fishkill, NY: #10 of 387 inventorsTop 3%
New York: #1,652 of 115,490 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #47,880 of 4,157,543Top 2%
54 Patents All Time

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 26–50 of 54 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
5062938 High coercivity low noise cobalt alloy magnetic recording medium and its manufacturing process 1991-11-05
5051288 Thin film magnetic recording disk comprising alternating layers of a CoNi or CoPt alloy and a non-magnetic spacer layer Richard H. Ahlert, Steven E. Lambert, Ian L. Sanders 1991-09-24
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, Kwang Ki Kim, Ian L. Sanders, Anthony W. Wu 1991-07-09
4940511 Method for making a magnetoresistive read transducer Robert E. Fontana, Jr., James H. Lee, Haralambos Lefakis 1990-07-10
4914538 Magnetoresistive read transducer Hung-Chang W. Huang, Cherngye Hwang 1990-04-03
4879619 Magnetoresistive read transducer Robert E. Fontana, Jr., James H. Lee, Haralambos Lefakis 1989-11-07
4825325 Magnetoresistive read transducer assembly 1989-04-25
4809109 Magnetoresistive read transducer and method for making the improved transducer Michael F. Toney, Ching Hwa Tsang 1989-02-28
4789598 Thin film medium for horizontal magnetic recording having an improved cobalt-based alloy magnetic layer Run-Han Wang 1988-12-06
4782413 Magnetoresistive sensor with mixed phase antiferromagnetic film Ting-Chang Huang 1988-11-01
4778582 Process for making a thin film metal alloy magnetic recording disk with a hydrogenated carbon overcoat 1988-10-18
4755897 Magnetoresistive sensor with improved antiferromagnetic film 1988-07-05
4749628 Multilayered vertical magnetic recording medium Richard H. Ahlert, Grace S. Lim 1988-06-07
4657824 Vertical magnetic recording medium with an intermetallic compound nucleating layer 1987-04-14
4654276 Magnetic recording medium with an underlayer and a cobalt-based magnetic layer Richard H. Ahlert, Grace S. Lim 1987-03-31
4652499 Magnetic recording medium with a chromium alloy underlayer and a cobalt-based magnetic layer 1987-03-24
4632883 Vertical recording medium with improved perpendicular magnetic anisotropy due to influence of beta-tantalum underlayer Mohammad T. Moshref 1986-12-30
4488262 Electronically programmable read only memory Dominique Basire, Arup Bhattacharyya, Pierre Mollier 1984-12-11
4471405 Thin film capacitor with a dual bottom electrode structure Kris V. Srikrishnan 1984-09-11
4437139 Laser annealed dielectric for dual dielectric capacitor 1984-03-13
4423087 Thin film capacitor with a dual bottom electrode structure Kris V. Srikrishnan 1983-12-27
4408254 Thin film capacitors Wei-Kan Chu 1983-10-04
4333808 Method for manufacture of ultra-thin film capacitor Arup Bhattacharyya, Wei-Kan Chu, Francis W. Wiedman 1982-06-08
4319264 Nickel-gold-nickel conductors for solid state devices Amitava Gangulee, Paul S. Ho, Robert J. Miller 1982-03-09
4310568 Method of fabricating improved Schottky barrier contacts William D. Rosenberg, James F. White 1982-01-12