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Robert G. Biskeborn — 479 Patents

IBM: 449 patents #31 of 70,183Top 1%
WTWestern Digital Technologies: 24 patents #96 of 3,180Top 4%
Globalfoundries: 5 patents #673 of 4,424Top 20%
HGHGST: 1 patents #1,167 of 483Top 245%
Hollister, CA: #1 of 243 inventorsTop 1%
California: #108 of 386,348 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #426 of 4,157,543Top 1%
479 Patents All Time
Robert G. Biskeborn has been granted 479 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1991 and the most recent in July 2025. Robert G. Biskeborn ranks #426 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.01%). Patent records list Robert G. Biskeborn in Hollister, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1991 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 50 patents in 2020.peak 501991: 2 patents19911997: 1 patents1998: 1 patents1999: 2 patents19992001: 2 patents2002: 3 patents2003: 2 patents20032004: 7 patents2005: 4 patents2006: 4 patents20062007: 9 patents2008: 11 patents2009: 15 patents20092010: 16 patents2011: 19 patents2012: 15 patents20122013: 22 patents2014: 23 patents2015: 28 patents20152016: 47 patents2017: 48 patents2018: 45 patents20182019: 39 patents2020: 50 patents2021: 28 patents20212022: 10 patents2023: 12 patents2024: 12 patents20242025: 2 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 479 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12374358 Tape heads having tiered servo readers David J. Seagle, Diane L. Brown, Trevor W. Olson 2025-07-29
12322424 3-band magnetic recording tape and tape drive David J. Seagle 2025-06-03
12183367 Tape drive having independently controlled tilting tandem tape heads Junzo Noda 2024-12-31 $27,492,000
12148447 HDD head having same gap verify and system for using same David J. Seagle, Diane L. Brown 2024-11-19 $28,753,000
12131761 Servo pattern for skew based tape dimensional stability compensation Nhan X. Bui, Mark A. Lantz, Simeon Furrer 2024-10-29 $23,226,000
12094496 Dual circuit isolation of writer to reader crosstalk for SGV modules David J. Seagle 2024-09-17 $17,873,000
12087336 Tape heads having shifted array/pad arrangements David J. Seagle, Diane L. Brown, Trevor W. Olson, Michael T. Babin, SR. 2024-09-10 $33,550,000
12033664 TDS mitigation using different data preamble tones Derrick E. Burton, James N. Malina 2024-07-09 $21,905,000
11990162 Independent reader/writer overcoats for an SGV tape head David J. Seagle 2024-05-21 $22,949,000
11990164 Tape head assembly with single beam, actuator and spring adaptor Kenji Kuroki, Oscar J. Ruiz, Eduardo Torres Mireles, Masahito Kobayashi 2024-05-21 $22,949,000
11935563 Tape drive having independently controlled tilting tandem tape heads Junzo Noda 2024-03-19 $9,873,000
11935562 Magnetic recording device having redundant servo readers and method for using same Masahito Kobayashi, Junzo Noda 2024-03-19 $9,873,000
11894030 High concurrent channels magnetic recording head having same-gap-verify and high density interconnect 2024-02-06 $8,129,000
11862195 Multi-channel recording head having servo readers proximate to write transducers and read transducers David J. Seagle, Diane L. Brown 2024-01-02 $11,123,000
11817137 High concurrent channels magnetic recording head having same-gap-verify and multiple servo readers 2023-11-14 $8,248,000
11783857 Data storage system and magnetic tape recording media with features for correcting the combined effects of tape skew and tape dimensional stability 2023-10-10 $6,086,000
11776569 Tape recording system and method for reading media having write-append head-positioning based on change in tape lateral dimension Trevor W. Olson 2023-10-03 $5,774,000
11688420 Hybrid dedicated and dynamic servo for tape James N. Malina, Masahito Kobayashi, Derrick E. Burton, Mark L. Watson 2023-06-27 $9,761,000
11682423 Servo pattern for skew based tape dimensional stability compensation Nhan X. Bui, Mark A. Lantz, Simeon Furrer 2023-06-20 $4,843,000
11682421 Tape head design having a null shield for same gap verify David J. Seagle, Alexander Goncharov 2023-06-20 $7,215,000
11676626 Tape head having joined modules Oscar J. Ruiz 2023-06-13 $8,323,000
11664048 Multi-spool tape recording apparatus Hoodin Hamidi, Gary M. Decad, Edwin R. Childers 2023-05-30 $4,328,000
11646053 Tape head design having same gap verify capabilities David J. Seagle, Alexander Goncharov 2023-05-09 $10,166,000
11615807 Flat profile tape recording head having beveled non-functional portions Oscar J. Ruiz, Kenji Kuroki, Michael T. Babin, SR., Eduardo Torres 2023-03-28 $11,020,000
11562768 Tape head pitch spacing Jason Liang 2023-01-24 $6,971,000