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Stephen J. Rothermel — 15 Patents

IMImation: 14 patents #11 of 622Top 2%
3M: 1 patents #7,251 of 11,543Top 65%
Roseville, MN: #55 of 611 inventorsTop 10%
Minnesota: #4,986 of 52,454 inventorsTop 10%
Overall (All Time): #307,048 of 4,157,543Top 8%
15 Patents All Time
Stephen J. Rothermel has been granted 15 US patents while listed as an inventor at Imation. The first was granted in 1992 and the most recent in February 2015. Stephen J. Rothermel ranks #307,048 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 7.4%). Patent records list Stephen J. Rothermel in Roseville, MN, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1992 to 2015Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2014.peak 51992: 1 patents19921999: 1 patents19992000: 1 patents20002003: 1 patents20032004: 1 patents20042006: 2 patents20062007: 1 patents20072011: 1 patents20112014: 5 patents20142015: 1 patents2015

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–15 of 15 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8947802 Methods and systems for magnetic media servo writing Douglas W. Johnson, Roni J. Dornfeld 2015-02-03 $829,000
8867167 Tapered pole heads for magnetic media Douglas W. Johnson 2014-10-21 $379,000
8867157 Perpendicular pole head for servo writing magnetic media Douglas W. Johnson, Larold L. Olson, Yung Yip 2014-10-21 $379,000
8797681 Servo write head having plural spaced front blocks coupled by magnetic posts to a back bar 2014-08-05 $590,000
8760802 Systems and methods for processing magnetic media with first and second magnetic gaps adjacent opposite sides of the recording layer Douglas W. Johnson 2014-06-24 $1,262,000
8643968 Methods and systems for magnetic media servo writing Douglas W. Johnson, Roni J. Dornfeld 2014-02-04 $654,000
8016194 Mobile data storage device reader having both radiofrequency and barcode scanners Curtis B. Hause, Sanjay Gupta, Jody L. Gregg 2011-09-13 $2,234,000
7199957 Write head alignment for full amplitude time-based servo Richard E. Jewett 2007-04-03 $2,915,000
7072133 Servo mark verify head Yung Yip 2006-07-04
7068030 Magnetic field strength detector Michael B. Hintz, Richard E. Jewett, Steven Lindblom 2006-06-27 $8,427,000
6795267 Guided servo writing for data storage media Richard E. Jewett, Mark R. Drutowski 2004-09-21 $8,474,000
6614607 Servo pattern recording method and system Robert P. Groschen, Jr., Curtis B. Hause, Richard E. Jewett, Steven C. Weber 2003-09-02 $9,557,000
6040963 Fringe field compensation system for multi-track servo recording head 2000-03-21 $4,459,000
5959812 Fringe field compensation system for multi-track servo recording head 1999-09-28 $11,975,000
5124866 Recording head core yoke with full length core support 1992-06-23 $5,465,000