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Thao A. Nguyen

IBM: 17 patents #6,502 of 70,183Top 10%
WT Western Digital Technologies: 13 patents #238 of 3,180Top 8%
MA Maxtor: 9 patents #25 of 656Top 4%
ST Seagate Technology: 1 patents #2,726 of 4,626Top 60%
📍 San Jose, CA: #1,383 of 32,062 inventorsTop 5%
🗺 California: #11,329 of 386,348 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #78,132 of 4,157,543Top 2%
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Patents All Time

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 26–40 of 40 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
6205002 Disk drive with textured slider contact region Peter Michael Baumgart, Thomas A. Gregory, Ulla Vasant Nayak, Michael Luis Ramirez, Andrew Ching Tam +1 more 2001-03-20
6118632 Magnetic disk stack having laser-bump identifiers on magnetic disks Thomas R. Albrecht, Peter Michael Baumgart, Kurt Allen Rubin, Andrew Ching Tam 2000-09-12
6013336 Procedure employing a diode-pumped laser for controllably texturing a disk surface Peter Michael Baumgart, Wing P. Leung, Andrew Ching Tam 2000-01-11
5875084 Magnetic recording disk having protrusions centered in respective depressions Peter Michael Baumgart, Wing P. Leung, Andrew Ching Tam 1999-02-23
5768076 Magnetic recording disk having a laser-textured surface Peter Michael Baumgart, Wing P. Leung, Andrew Ching Tam 1998-06-16
5729399 Contact start/stop disk drive with minimized head-disk wear in textured landing zone Thomas R. Albrecht 1998-03-17
5689057 Calibration disk with disk bumps for calibrating PZT sliders Peter Michael Baumgart, Karl A. Flechsig, Michael F. Lee, Wing P. Leung, Ullal V. Nayak +2 more 1997-11-18
5658475 Apparatus for laser texturing disks Michael Barenboim, Peter Michael Baumgart, Benjamin Karni, Pieter J. Kerstens, Hong S. Seing +2 more 1997-08-19
5631408 Method of making disk bumps with laser pulses Peter Michael Baumgart, Karl A. Flechsig, Michael F. Lee, Wing P. Leung, Ullal V. Nayak +2 more 1997-05-20
5595791 Process for texturing brittle glass disks Peter Michael Baumgart, Wing P. Leung, Hung Nguyen, Andrew Ching Tam, Anthony W. Wu 1997-01-21
5586040 Process and apparatus for controlled laser texturing of magnetic recording disk Peter Michael Baumgart, Christopher S. Gudeman, Douglas J. Krajnovich, Steven W. Meeks, Fior D. Sargent +2 more 1996-12-17
5567484 Process for texturing brittle nonmetallic surfaces Peter Michael Baumgart, Wing P. Leung, Hung Nguyen, Andrew Ching Tam, Anthony W. Wu 1996-10-22
5550696 Magnetic recording disk having textured test band for controlling texture in the slider landing zone 1996-08-27
5539213 Process and apparatus for laser analysis of surface having a repetitive texture pattern Steven W. Meeks, Fior D. Sargent 1996-07-23
5528922 Method of making disk bumps with laser pulses for calibrating PZT sliders Peter Michael Baumgart, Karl A. Flechsig, Michael F. Lee, Wing P. Leung, Ullal V. Nayak +2 more 1996-06-25