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Samuel W. Yuan — 33 Patents

RRRead Rite: 14 patents #7 of 255Top 3%
HGHGST: 12 patents #162 of 1,677Top 10%
W(Western Digital (Fremont): 3 patents #181 of 473Top 40%
Google: 2 patents #10,599 of 22,993Top 50%
University of California: 1 patents #8,022 of 18,278Top 45%
IBM: 1 patents #44,878 of 70,183Top 65%
San Jose, CA: #1,808 of 32,062 inventorsTop 6%
California: #15,252 of 386,348 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #105,480 of 4,157,543Top 3%
33 Patents All Time
Samuel W. Yuan has been granted 33 US patents while listed as an inventor at Read Rite. The first was granted in 1997 and the most recent in July 2025. Samuel W. Yuan ranks #105,480 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.5%). Patent records list Samuel W. Yuan in San Jose, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 33 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12375280 Location-based access to controlled access resources Anurag Acharya, Alexandre A. Verstak 2025-07-29
11558193 Location-based access to controlled access resources Anurag Acharya, Alexandre A. Verstak 2023-01-17 $46,717,000
9142233 Heat assisted magnetic recording writer having a recessed pole Matthew R. Gibbons, Hongxing Yuan, Brad V. Johnson, Michael V. Morelli, Lisha Wang +3 more 2015-09-22 $6,847,000
9082423 Magnetic recording write transducer having an improved trailing surface profile Feng Liu, Zhigang Bai, Weimin Si, Yugang Wang, Fenglin Liu +1 more 2015-07-14 $11,106,000
8947985 Heat assisted magnetic recording transducers having a recessed pole Michael V. Morelli, Lisha Wang, Zhigang Bai, Hongxing Yuan, Yunfei Li +2 more 2015-02-03 $10,005,000
8276257 Method for making coplanar write head pole tips Terence Lam, Vladimir Nikitin, Changqing Shi 2012-10-02
7870659 Method for defining a perpendicular magnetic head Vladimir Nikitin 2011-01-18 $109,000
7692893 Side-by-side magnetic head configuration with flared pole tip layer and read sensor sharing same plane Vladimir Nikitin 2010-04-06 $59,000
7525760 Laminated write gap to improve writer performance Wen-Chien David Hsiao, Terence T. L. Lam, Bernd Lamberts, Yinshi Liu, Terry Wayne Olson +1 more 2009-04-28 $89,000
7500302 Process for fabricating a magnetic recording head with a laminated write gap Wen-Chien David Hsiao, Terence T. L. Lam, Yinshi Liu, Michael Ming Hsiang Yang 2009-03-10 $111,000
7330336 Dual polarity bias for prolonging the life of a heating element in magnetic data storage devices Jih-Shiuan Luo 2008-02-12 $327,000
7133241 Method and apparatus for optimizing record quality with varying track and linear density by allowing overlapping data tracks Xiaodong Che, Wen-Chien David Hsiao, Yansheng Luo, Xiaoyu Sui 2006-11-07 $111,000
7085100 Magnetic head having a bilayer pole tip Tom Harris, Wen-Chien David Hsiao, Gautam Khera, David Lee, Edward Hin Pong Lee +1 more 2006-08-01 $108,000
7079355 Magnetic transducer with a write head having a multi-layer coil Richard Hsiao, Quang Le, Edward Hin Pong Lee, Paul P. Nguyen, Son V. Nguyen +3 more 2006-07-18 $87,000
7035047 Magnetic recording heads having thin thermally conductive undercoating Wen-Chien David Hsiao, Peter Beverley Powell Phipps, Yong Shen, John Jaekoyun Yang 2006-04-25 $9,745,000
6859347 Magnetic transducer with electrically conductive shield for reducing electromagnetic interference Richard Hsiao, Klaas B. Klaassen, Edward Hing Pong Lee, Timothy J. Moran, Vladimir Nikitin +1 more 2005-02-22 $157,000
6804879 Method of fabricating a magnetic transducer with a write head having a multi-layer coil Richard Hsiao, Quang Le, Edward Hin Pong Lee, Paul P. Nguyen, Son V. Nguyen +3 more 2004-10-19 $265,000
6687083 Enhanced low profile magnet write head Wenchein Hsiao, Edward Hin Pong Lee, Neil Leslie Robertson, Hugo Alberto Emilio Santini, Joseph Smyth 2004-02-03 $239,000
6459552 Thin film read head with coplanar pole tips Francis H. Liu, Hua-Ching Tong 2002-10-01
6392850 Magnetoresistive transducer having a common magnetic bias using assertive and complementary signals Hua-Ching Tong, Francis H. Liu, Minshen Tan, Robert Earl Rottmayer, Jian Zhu 2002-05-21 $7,977,000
6219205 High density giant magnetoresistive transducer with recessed sensor Robert Earl Rottmayer 2001-04-17 $31,445,000
6073338 Thin film read head with coplanar pole tips Francis H. Liu, Hua-Ching Tong 2000-06-13 $1,428,000
5923505 Magnetoresistive sensor having a pinned soft magnetic layer Derek J. Kroes, Marcos M. Lederman 1999-07-13 $3,389,000
5883763 Read/write head having a GMR sensor biased by permanent magnets located between the GMR and the pole shields Robert Earl Rottmayer, Matthew J. Carey 1999-03-16 $8,847,000
5859754 Magnetoresistive transducer having a common magnetic bias using assertive and complementary signals Hua-Ching Tong, Francis H. Liu, Minshen Tan, Robert Earl Rottmayer, Jian Zhu 1999-01-12 $9,412,000