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Daniel A. Nepela — 35 Patents

RRRead Rite: 28 patents #1 of 255Top 1%
IBM: 5 patents #18,770 of 70,183Top 30%
W(Western Digital (Fremont): 1 patents #299 of 473Top 65%
Saratoga, CA: #279 of 2,933 inventorsTop 10%
California: #14,008 of 386,348 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #96,288 of 4,157,543Top 3%
35 Patents All Time
Daniel A. Nepela has been granted 35 US patents while listed as an inventor at Read Rite. The first was granted in 1981 and the most recent in January 2009. Daniel A. Nepela ranks #96,288 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.3%). Patent records list Daniel A. Nepela in Saratoga, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 35 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7482298 Superconductor compositions operable at high temperatures 2009-01-27
6828897 Methods and compositions for optimizing interfacial properties of magnetoresistive sensors 2004-12-07 $11,007,000
6424507 Spin valve magnetoresistive sensor for high temperature environment using iridium manganese Marcos M. Lederman, Hua-Ching Tong 2002-07-23 $610,000
6330131 Reduced stiction air bearing slider Paul H. Schmidt 2001-12-11 $7,670,000
6166891 Magnetoresistive sensor for high temperature environment using iridium manganese Marcos M. Lederman, Hua-Ching Tong 2000-12-26 $9,626,000
6163426 Magnetoresistive head with minimal electromigration Chung Fai Lam 2000-12-19 $8,250,000
6137662 Magnetoresistive sensor with pinned SAL Yiming Huai, Durga P. Ravipati, Marcos M. Lederman 2000-10-24 $3,851,000
6078479 Magnetic tape head with flux sensing element Erich P. Valstyn, Derek J. Kroes 2000-06-20 $2,822,000
5961746 Corrosion resistant amorphous magnetic alloys 1999-10-05 $2,203,000
5949627 Thin film magnetic head with stress relief layering Edgar M. Williams, Peter G. Bischoff 1999-09-07 $6,576,000
5920979 Method of forming an inductive magnetic head with approximate zero magnetostriction Siamak Sarhadi 1999-07-13 $3,389,000
5917680 Magnetoresistive head with magnetic bias level control Erich P. Valstyn, Charles R. Bond 1999-06-29 $6,968,000
5793550 Magnetoresistive head using sense currents of opposite polarities Amritpal S. Rana 1998-08-11 $1,484,000
5793279 Methods and compositions for optimizing interfacial properties of magnetoresistive sensors 1998-08-11 $1,484,000
5768073 Thin film magnetic head with reduced undershoot Charles R. Bond 1998-06-16 $5,077,000
5751528 Multilayer exchange coupled magnetic poles with approximate zero magnetostriction Siamak Sarhadi 1998-05-12 $3,807,000
5742459 Magnetic head having encapsulated magnetoresistive transducer and multilayered lead structure Yong Shen, Chyu-Jiuh Torng 1998-04-21 $3,613,000
5742162 Magnetoresistive spin valve sensor with multilayered keeper Marcos M. Lederman 1998-04-21 $3,613,000
5739987 Magnetoresistive read transducers with multiple longitudinal stabilization layers Samuel W. Yuan, Marcos M. Lederman 1998-04-14 $3,405,000
5734533 Dual gap magnetic head and method of making the same 1998-03-31 $10,128,000
5727308 Thin film magnetic head and method of fabrication Chak M. Leung, Charles R. Bond 1998-03-17 $9,387,000
5717550 Antiferromagnetic exchange biasing using buffer layer Marcos M. Lederman 1998-02-10 $11,308,000
5685645 Roll balance sub-ambient pressure air bearing slider Ciuter Chang 1997-11-11 $14,552,000
5568981 Negative pressure air bearing slider Ciuter Chang, Yiao-Tee Hsia, Rajendra Bhadra 1996-10-29 $13,202,000
5508868 Dual element magnetoresistive sensing head having in-gap flux guide and flux closure piece with particular connection of magnetoresistive sensing elements to differential amplifier Shih-Cheng Cheng 1996-04-16 $14,058,000