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Thomas R. Stone — 17 Patents

QUQuantum: 8 patents #49 of 703Top 7%
PDPlus Development: 4 patents #3 of 15Top 20%
PAPaccar: 3 patents #199 of 678Top 30%
DBDade Behring: 1 patents #63 of 163Top 40%
DIDade International: 1 patents #19 of 88Top 25%
Hayward, CA: #97 of 1,120 inventorsTop 9%
California: #35,467 of 386,348 inventorsTop 10%
Overall (All Time): #263,971 of 4,157,543Top 7%
17 Patents All Time
Thomas R. Stone has been granted 17 US patents while listed as an inventor at Quantum. The first was granted in 1981 and the most recent in December 1999. Thomas R. Stone ranks #263,971 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 6.3%). Patent records list Thomas R. Stone in Hayward, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–17 of 17 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
5999370 Airflow generator spindle hub for aerodynamically released shipping latch for disk drive actuator David W. Foster 1999-12-07
5888826 Combination reagent holding and test device Roy A. Ostgaard, Stephen John Schoenberg, Sourav K. Kundu, Ted S. Geiselman 1999-03-30
5668683 Counter balanced rotary airlock actuator latch assembly for disk drive 1997-09-16 $32,104,000
5647255 Expandable gasket for a head disk assembly of a disk drive 1997-07-15 $46,648,000
5621590 Actuator apparatus with plastic C-block Lou Pace, Thomas A. Tacklind 1997-04-15 $34,674,000
5602037 Combination reagent holding and test device Roy A. Ostgaard, Stephen John Schoenberg, Sourav K. Kundu, Ted S. Geiselman 1997-02-11
5227930 Head position recalibration for disk drive William N. Thanos, Misha I. Rozenberg, Tom Lik-Chung Lee 1993-07-13 $2,401,000
5084791 Head position control system for fixed drive including position encoder, temperature sensor and embedded fine servo information William N. Thanos, Bruce R. Peterson, William G. Moon, Joshua Lindsay 1992-01-28 $7,713,000
5005089 High performance, high capacity micro-winchester disk drive William N. Thanos, Bruce R. Peterson, William G. Moon, Joshua Lindsay 1991-04-02 $8,588,000
4772974 Compact head and disk assembly William G. Moon, Donald C. Westwood 1988-09-20
4712146 Thin and compact micro-Winchester head and disk assembly William G. Moon, Donald C. Westwood 1987-12-08
4703176 Compact polyphase optical position encoder Peter Hahn, William G. Moon, Joel N. Harrison 1987-10-27
4661696 Optical encoder which use a rectangular photodetector array 1987-04-28
4647769 Optical encoder having controllable lead-lag phase trim sensitivity Randolph H. Graham 1987-03-03 $2,672,000
4465299 Vehicle suspension with load-controlled damping and load-controlled damper Roger P. Penzotti 1984-08-14 $5,280,000
4452329 Suspension for a truck tilt cab Roger P. Penzotti 1984-06-05 $4,156,000
4279321 Latching system for a truck cab 1981-07-21 $3,466,000