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Mark E. Re — 16 Patents

IBM: 8 patents #13,181 of 70,183Top 20%
HGHGST: 4 patents #514 of 1,677Top 35%
STSeagate Technology: 2 patents #2,300 of 4,701Top 50%
CUCarnegie Mellon University: 1 patents #637 of 1,507Top 45%
W(Western Digital (Fremont): 1 patents #299 of 473Top 65%
Wheaton, IL: #53 of 884 inventorsTop 6%
Illinois: #5,176 of 84,256 inventorsTop 7%
Overall (All Time): #284,196 of 4,157,543Top 7%
16 Patents All Time
Mark E. Re has been granted 16 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1989 and the most recent in January 2010. Mark E. Re ranks #284,196 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 6.8%). Patent records list Mark E. Re in Wheaton, IL, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–16 of 16 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7643235 Synchronization for data communication Mehmet Fatih Erden, Erozan Kurtas 2010-01-05 $19,426,000
7609469 Alternative sensors for tracking and timing in bit patterned media Edward Charles Gage, Venkata S. Chilaka, Chubing Peng 2009-10-27 $26,161,000
7436631 Heated gimbal for magnetic head to disk clearance adjustment Edmund Bruno Fanslau, Jr. 2008-10-14 $5,675,000
7213326 Method of manufacturing a horizontal thin film write, MR read head Mohamad Towfik Krounbi 2007-05-08 $198,000
7100268 Method of making a magnetic head Mohamad Towfik Krounbi 2006-09-05 $179,000
6925702 Method of making a horizontal thin film write and read head Mohamad Towfik Krounbi 2005-08-09 $82,000
6722019 Method of making horizontal thin film write, MR read head Mohamad Towfik Krounbi 2004-04-20 $259,000
6088176 Method and apparatus for separating magnetic and thermal components from an MR read signal Gordon James Smith, Hal Hjalmar Ottesen, David W. Abraham, Anthony P. Praino, Hemantha K. Wickramasinghe 2000-07-11 $21,738,000
6052249 Method and apparatus for data storage using thermal proximity imaging David W. Abraham, Anthony P. Praino, Hemantha K. Wickramasinghe 2000-04-18 $23,849,000
5850374 Method and apparatus for data storage using thermal proximity imaging David W. Abraham, Anthony P. Praino, Hemantha K. Wickramasinghe 1998-12-15 $59,901,000
5768070 Horizontal thin film write, MR read head Mohamad Towfik Krounbi 1998-06-16 $7,430,000
5537273 Speed and skew independent, air bearing slider Ferdinand Hendriks 1996-07-16 $6,072,000
5527110 Method and apparatus for detecting asperities on magnetic disks using thermal proximity imaging David W. Abraham, Anthony P. Praino, Hemantha K. Wickramasinghe 1996-06-18 $10,589,000
5392169 Electrical means to diminish read-back signal waveform distortion in recording heads Bernell E. Argyle, Anthony P. Praino, Rudolf Schäfer, Shinji Takayama, Philip L. Trouilloud 1995-02-21 $6,417,000
5142426 Thin film magnetic head having interspersed resistance layers to provide a desired cut-off frequency Michael A. Russak, Bucknell C. Webb 1992-08-25 $9,629,000
4825318 Compound read/write element for rigid magnetic disk files Stanley S. K. Hoo 1989-04-25