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John D. McCrandall — 9 Patents

MAMaxtor: 9 patents #25 of 656Top 4%
Longmont, CO: #349 of 2,039 inventorsTop 20%
Colorado: #5,216 of 40,980 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #535,341 of 4,157,543Top 15%
9 Patents All Time
John D. McCrandall has been granted 9 US patents while listed as an inventor at Maxtor. The first was granted in 1994 and the most recent in December 2009. John D. McCrandall ranks #535,341 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 12.9%). Patent records list John D. McCrandall in Longmont, CO, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–9 of 9 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7624495 Method of reducing torque out retention values in de-swaging of actuator of disk drive Mark S. Crowder, Richard E. Rupp, Jr. 2009-12-01
7159299 Spring assisted head stack assembly comb Tom E. McMunigal 2007-01-09
7024754 Method of assembling an actuator assembly of a disk drive and of reducing torque out retention values in subsequent de-swaging Mark S. Crowder, Richard E. Rupp, Jr. 2006-04-11 $10,075,000
6648587 Material delivery system for clean room-like environments Tom E. McMunigal, Michael A. Finn 2003-11-18 $13,088,000
6599077 Material delivery system for clean room-like environments Tom E. McMunigal, Richard E. Rupp, Jr. 2003-07-29 $12,576,000
6471010 Material delivery system for clean room-like environments Tom E. McMunigal, Richard E. Rupp, Jr. 2002-10-29 $8,868,000
6305500 Material delivery system for clean room-like environments Tom E. McMunigal, Richard E. Rupp, Jr. 2001-10-23 $6,969,000
5623759 Method of attaching a voice coil to an actuator arm Laurene J. Thorson, Richard E. Rupp, Jr. 1997-04-29
5285948 Reflow solder and static test station Rick E. Rupp, Dennis L. Zekoff 1994-02-15 $2,880,000