Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Sept 30, 2025
RB

Robert G. Biskeborn

IBM: 449 patents #31 of 70,183Top 1%
WTWestern Digital Technologies: 24 patents #91 of 3,180Top 3%
Globalfoundries: 5 patents #673 of 4,424Top 20%
HGHGST: 1 patents #253 of 483Top 55%
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

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 26–50 of 479 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
11545184 Joined multi-module tape recording head 2023-01-03
11532330 Data storage device compensating for magnetic tape distortion when shingle writing data tracks Trevor W. Olson, Mark L. Watson 2022-12-20
11532320 Tape drive configured to enable magnetic media to fly above an upstream or a downstream head assembly Oscar J. Ruiz 2022-12-20
11514929 Magnetic recording head having same-gap read-after-write David J. Seagle 2022-11-29
11488629 Protective layer for mitigating protruding defects in magnetic tape recording media Calvin S. Lo 2022-11-01
11393501 Protective layer for mitigating protruding defects in magnetic tape recording media Calvin S. Lo 2022-07-19
11322175 Protective layer for mitigating protruding defects in magnetic tape recording media Calvin S. Lo 2022-05-03
11302348 Split band multichannel magnetic recording head having scaled reader widths 2022-04-12
11270722 Method of making magnetically-shielded write transducers Philipp Herget 2022-03-08
11232815 Multi-spool tape recording apparatus having removable mounts for supporting tape spool pairs Hoodin Hamidi, Edwin R. Childers, Donald Charles Acosta 2022-01-25
11226194 Apparatus and method for measuring distance between fiducial features, such as magnetic transducers, to an accuracy of within one nanometer 2022-01-18
11189306 Reduced-stress tape head module Calvin S. Lo, Hoodin Hamidi 2021-11-30
11175335 Diagnostics in TMR sensors Wlodzimierz S. Czarnecki, Icko E. T. Iben, Hugo E. Rothuizen 2021-11-16
11170801 Multi-band multichannel magnetic recording head 2021-11-09
11170810 Determining in-plane bow of a tape drive head module Jason Liang 2021-11-09
11152019 Write transducer with symmetric yoke structure Robert E. Fontana, Jr. 2021-10-19
11143696 Diagnostics in TMR sensors Wlodzimierz S. Czarnecki, Icko E. T. Iben, Hugo E. Rothuizen 2021-10-12
11133029 Tape head with element-to-element spacing and adjustment and mechanism to control the spacing Jason Liang, Robert E. Fontana, Jr. 2021-09-28
11114117 Process for manufacturing magnetic head having a servo read transducer structure with dielectric gap liner and a data read transducer structure with an embedded wear layer between thin and thick shield portions David J. Seagle, Calvin S. Lo 2021-09-07
11074930 Read transducer structure having an embedded wear layer between thin and thick shield portions David J. Seagle, Calvin S. Lo 2021-07-27
11056132 Multichannel tape head module having thermally settable transducer pitch and method of setting pitch thereof Hugo E. Rothuizen, Calvin S. Lo 2021-07-06
11049528 Multichannel tape head module having thermoelectric devices for controlling span between transducers Hugo E. Rothuizen 2021-06-29
11043237 Multi-spool tape recording apparatus Hoodin Hamidi, Gary M. Decad, Edwin R. Childers 2021-06-22
11037587 Tunnel magnetoresistive sensor having conductive ceramic layers Calvin S. Lo, Philip M. Rice, Teya Topuria 2021-06-15
11031031 Forming recessed portions in a tape head module to provide an air bearing between a tape medium and a tape bearing surface of the tape head module Calvin S. Lo 2021-06-08