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James Mark Decot — 14 Patents

QUQuantum: 5 patents #85 of 703Top 15%
CECertance: 4 patents #4 of 26Top 20%
STSeagate Technology: 4 patents #1,431 of 4,701Top 35%
SSSeagate Removable Storage Solutions: 1 patents #11 of 18Top 65%
Brooks Road, CA: #90 of 1,361 inventorsTop 7%
California: #43,920 of 386,348 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #332,869 of 4,157,543Top 9%
14 Patents All Time
James Mark Decot has been granted 14 US patents while listed as an inventor at Quantum. The first was granted in 1999 and the most recent in December 2014. James Mark Decot ranks #332,869 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 8.0%). Patent records list James Mark Decot in Brooks Road, CA, US.

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Showing 1–14 of 14 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8902541 Head rotator assembly for tape drive Ashok B. Nayak, Turguy Goker, Ming-Chih Weng 2014-12-02 $3,540,000
8867163 Head rotator assembly for tape drive Ashok B. Nayak, Turguy Goker, Ming-Chih Weng 2014-10-21 $997,000
8599519 Head rotator assembly for tape drive Ashok B. Nayak, Turguy Goker, Ming-Chih Weng 2013-12-03 $3,182,000
7945419 Electronic measurement of off-center run-out and reel-hub mismatch Ming-Chih Weng, Turguy Goker, Minh Vu, John A. Hamming 2011-05-17 $10,686,000
7679864 Narrow width actuator for tape drive systems Ashok B. Nayak, John A. Ycas, Turguy Goker, Ming-Chih Weng 2010-03-16 $9,173,000
7502196 Head actuator design for a low profile tape drive Ashok B. Nayak 2009-03-10
7420781 Head actuator assembly for a tape drive Ashok B. Nayak 2008-09-02
7379259 Head actuator design for a low profile tape drive Ashok B. Nayak 2008-05-27
7227724 Head actuator assembly for a tape drive Ashok B. Nayak 2007-06-05 $10,476,000
6744593 Tape path for a cartridge tape drive Ashok B. Nayak, Robert Ralph Heinze, Minh Vu, Son Hung Truong, John A. Hamming +1 more 2004-06-01 $5,678,000
6594118 Suspension system for a head-carriage assembly for a magnetic tape drive Ashok B. Nayak 2003-07-15
6404598 Flexible circuit routing configuration for a fine/coarse positioner for a tape drive Ashok B. Nayak 2002-06-11
5978172 Voice coil driven positioner for coarse and fine positioning of magnetic head in multi-track tape drive Ashok B. Nayak, Kurt A. Buckland, Walter Fehlmann, Scott L. Hanson 1999-11-02 $17,268,000
5901008 Voice coil driven positioner for coarse and fine positioning of magnetic head in multi-track tape drive Ashok B. Nayak, Kurt A. Buckland, Walter Fehlmann, Scott L. Hanson 1999-05-04 $52,596,000