LF

Luis P. Franco

IBM: 4 patents #21,733 of 70,183Top 35%
ST Seagate Technology: 3 patents #1,519 of 4,626Top 35%
HG HGST: 1 patents #1,032 of 1,677Top 65%
📍 Gilroy, CA: #125 of 527 inventorsTop 25%
🗺 California: #73,997 of 386,348 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #660,207 of 4,157,543Top 20%
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Patents All Time

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–8 of 8 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
7233456 Method for eliminating the need for a dedicated landing zone at the outer diameter of a storage system's platter Oscar J. Ruiz 2007-06-19
6262572 Thermo-resistive glide test head for disc drive recording media Erich Sawatzky, Roland Eugene Imboden 2001-07-17
6014288 Partially etched protective overcoat for a disk drive slider Ellis Cha, Jia Lee, Michael L. Workman 2000-01-11
5985163 Partially etched protective overcoat for a disk drive slider Ellis Cha, Jia Lee, Michael L. Workman 1999-11-16
5418667 Slider with transverse ridge sections supporting air-bearing pads and disk drive incorporating the slider George L. Best, Moris Dovek, John S. Foster, Randall T. Kerth 1995-05-23
5388017 Disk file with air-bearing slider having skids Andrew M. Homola, Leela Viswanathan 1995-02-07
5285337 Liquid-bearing data recording disk file with transducer carrier having support struts George L. Best, Moris Dovek, John S. Foster, Andrew M. Homola 1994-02-08
5151294 Method for forming a protective film on a slider air bearing surface in a magnetic recording disk file Herman E. Bleich, Ian L. Sanders 1992-09-29