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Ullal V. Nayak

IBM: 12 patents #9,222 of 70,183Top 15%
HG HGST: 10 patents #176 of 1,677Top 15%
Overall (All Time): #197,729 of 4,157,543Top 5%
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Patents All Time

Issued Patents All Time

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
8192249 Systems and methods for polishing a magnetic disk Malika D. Carter, Yun-Lin Hsiao, Thomas E. Karis, Bruno Marchon, Christopher Ramm +1 more 2012-06-05
7946156 Glide test heads using heating elements to form a planar detection surface Shanlin Duan, Jizhong He, Bruno Marchon 2011-05-24
7586711 Magnetic performance of a magnetic transducer operating within a hard disk drive Bernhard E. Knigge 2009-09-08
7405896 Method and apparatus for detecting slider/disk fly-height modulation in a hard disk drive Toshiki Hirano 2008-07-29
7312941 Disk drive with head-disk interaction sensor integrated with suspension Toshiki Hirano, Qinghua Zeng 2007-12-25
7230800 Microactuator for a hard disk drive with an integrated gimbal function Toshiki Hirano, Henry Hung Yang 2007-06-12
7164557 Apparatus for burnishing small asperities and cleaning loose particles from magnetic recording media Parul Agrawal, Hang Fai Ngo, Charles Lee, Li-Chung Lee, Stephen T. Olson +2 more 2007-01-16
7002768 Disk drive having reduced variation of disk surface lubricant layer thickness Bruno Marchon, Qing Dai, Ferdinand Hendriks 2006-02-21
6958871 Head-disk interaction sensor integrated with suspension Toshiki Hirano, Qinghua Zeng 2005-10-25
6947242 Apparatus and method for dynamic fly height adjustment Hong S. Seing, Bob C. Robinson, Carl Robert Mendel, Wesley L. Hillman, Tony Mello +1 more 2005-09-20
6767584 Disk substrate with monosized microbumps James A. Hagan, Janice Blue Ostrom, Douglas Howard Piltingsrud, Douglas Kuchta 2004-07-27
6497021 Method and apparatus for providing a low cost contact burnish slider Francis Chee-Shuen Lee, Michael Lee McGhee, Salvador Navarro, Hang Fai Ngo 2002-12-24
6493185 Optimized pad design for slider and method for making the same Lee K. Dorius, Robert N. Payne 2002-12-10
6407880 Environmental corrosion protection for hard disk drive elements by thermal activation Donald Ray Gillis, Kris Schouterden, Reinhard F. Wolter 2002-06-18
6125005 Altitude insensitive air bearing using pitch compensation for data storage application Francis Chee-Shuen Lee, Robert N. Payne 2000-09-26
5929326 Glide sensor integrated suspension Wayne Isami Imaino, Francis Chee-Shuen Lee, Mike L. McGhee, Salvador Navarro, Tzong-Shii Pan +2 more 1999-07-27
5689057 Calibration disk with disk bumps for calibrating PZT sliders Peter Michael Baumgart, Karl A. Flechsig, Michael F. Lee, Wing P. Leung, Thao A. Nguyen +2 more 1997-11-18
5631408 Method of making disk bumps with laser pulses Peter Michael Baumgart, Karl A. Flechsig, Michael F. Lee, Wing P. Leung, Thao A. Nguyen +2 more 1997-05-20
5581021 Method and apparatus for optimizing piezoelectric surface asperity detection sensor Karl A. Flechsig, Chih-Kung Lee, Sylvia Lee, Timothy C. O'Sullivan 1996-12-03
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, Thao A. Nguyen +2 more 1996-06-25
5450747 Method for optimizing piezoelectric surface asperity detection sensor Karl A. Flechsig, Chih-Kung Lee, Sylvia Lee, Timothy C. O'Sullivan 1995-09-19
5423207 Advanced PZT glide head design and implementation for a small slider Karl A. Flechsig, Chih-Kung Lee, Sylvia Lee, Michael Lee McGhee, Timothy C. O'Sullivan +1 more 1995-06-13