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Timothy C. O'Sullivan — 14 Patents

IBM: 12 patents #9,258 of 70,183Top 15%
HGHGST: 2 patents #833 of 1,677Top 50%
San Jose, CA: #4,673 of 32,062 inventorsTop 15%
California: #43,920 of 386,348 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #332,869 of 4,157,543Top 9%
14 Patents All Time
Timothy C. O'Sullivan has been granted 14 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1993 and the most recent in April 2006. Timothy C. O'Sullivan ranks #332,869 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 8.0%). Patent records list Timothy C. O'Sullivan in San Jose, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1993 to 2006Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 1996.peak 31993: 1 patents19931994: 1 patents19941995: 2 patents19951996: 3 patents19961997: 2 patents19971998: 2 patents19982000: 1 patents20002004: 1 patents20042006: 1 patents2006

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–14 of 14 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7029590 Self-limiting wear contact pad slider and method for making the same Pantelis Alexopoulos, Lee K. Dorius, Francis Chee-Shuen Lee, Gurinder Singh 2006-04-18 $101,000
6714382 Self-limiting wear contact pad slider and method for making the same Pantelis Alexopoulos, Lee K. Dorius, Francis Chee-Shuen Lee, Gurinder Singh 2004-03-30 $280,000
6011239 Laser apparatus and method adjusting the gram load, static attitude and flying height in a head suspension assembly Gurinder Singh, Satya Prakash Arya, Douglas J. Krajnovich, Pantelis Alexopoulos, Chih-Kung Lee 2000-01-04 $40,662,000
5796550 Method and apparatus for providing diverging rail edge geometry for air bearing slider Laurence S. Samuelson, Howell B. Schwartz 1998-08-18 $11,146,000
5712463 Laser apparatus and method for adjusting the gram load static attitude and flying height of a slider in a head suspension assembly Gurinder Singh, Satya Prakash Arya, Douglas J. Krajnovich, Pantelis Alexopoulos, Chih-Kung Lee 1998-01-27 $18,838,000
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 $30,996,000
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 $18,121,000
5581021 Method and apparatus for optimizing piezoelectric surface asperity detection sensor Karl A. Flechsig, Chih-Kung Lee, Sylvia Lee, Ullal V. Nayak 1996-12-03 $20,817,000
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 $5,688,000
5521772 Disk drive with accerleration rate sensing Chih-Kung Lee, Archibald C. Munce, Jr. 1996-05-28 $12,387,000
5450747 Method for optimizing piezoelectric surface asperity detection sensor Karl A. Flechsig, Chih-Kung Lee, Sylvia Lee, Ullal V. Nayak 1995-09-19 $8,701,000
5423207 Advanced PZT glide head design and implementation for a small slider Karl A. Flechsig, Chih-Kung Lee, Sylvia Lee, Michael Lee McGhee, Ullal V. Nayak +1 more 1995-06-13 $13,914,000
5345353 Step projection air bearing slider with improved stiction performance and wear resistance Matthias C. Krantz, Vlad Novotny, Andrew Ching Tam 1994-09-06 $13,761,000
5267104 Liquid-bearing data recording disk file with transducer carrier having rear ski pad at the head-disk interface Thomas R. Albrecht, Moris Dovek, John S. Foster, Andrew M. Homola 1993-11-30 $8,625,000