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Aaron Steve Macpherson — 20 Patents

STSeagate Technology: 16 patents #353 of 4,722Top 8%
MAMaxtor: 3 patents #132 of 656Top 25%
CPConner Peripherals: 1 patents #45 of 131Top 35%
Fort Collins, CO: #204 of 3,421 inventorsTop 6%
Colorado: #1,960 of 40,980 inventorsTop 5%
Overall (All Time): #214,803 of 4,157,543Top 6%
20 Patents All Time
Aaron Steve Macpherson has been granted 20 US patents while listed as an inventor at Seagate Technology. The first was granted in 1993 and the most recent in May 2012. Aaron Steve Macpherson ranks #214,803 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.2%). Patent records list Aaron Steve Macpherson in Fort Collins, CO, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1993 to 2012Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2003.peak 51993: 1 patents19931994: 1 patents19941998: 2 patents19982001: 1 patents20012002: 4 patents20022003: 5 patents20032004: 3 patents20042005: 1 patents20052006: 1 patents20062012: 1 patents2012

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–20 of 20 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8169748 Damping member for a moveable flex circuit — 2012-05-01 $53,543,000
7082012 Disc drive breather filter mounted to a flex circuit bracket Terence H. West, Daniel S. Thompson 2006-07-25 $21,388,000
6950283 Stacked actuator arm assembly clamp Joe A. Wood 2005-09-27 $7,362,000
6822824 Flex circuit bracket which establishes a diffusion path for a data storage device housing — 2004-11-23 $7,333,000
6781796 Counterbalance fastener for a disc drive stacked actuator Joe A. Wood 2004-08-24 $7,289,000
6714379 Top cover shroud for a disc drive Richard K. Thompson, Robert A. Alt 2004-03-30 $10,245,000
6606224 Cartridge bearing with frictional sleeve Rick K. Thompson, Gary F. Kelsic, Robert A. Alt 2003-08-12 $9,577,000
6600633 Thermally conductive overmold for a disc drive actuator assembly Rishi Kant, Gary F. Kelsic 2003-07-29 $28,470,000
6577473 Disc drive ramp that accomodates shipping comb Robert A. Alt 2003-06-10 $11,340,000
6525910 Threadably mountable drive actuator bearing assembly Gary F. Kelsic, Bruce Joseph Oxley, Richard W. Deichert, Tom Konetski 2003-02-25 $6,909,000
6507462 Disc drive voice coil motor with shroud feature Robert M. Gibbs 2003-01-14 $15,447,000
6501615 Dampening member for isolating actuator vibration Gary F. Kelsic 2002-12-31
6487052 Non-contact magnetic latch for disc drive actuator Robert A. Alt 2002-11-26
6473959 Method for latching a disc driver actuator Gary F. Kelsic 2002-11-05
6449129 Disc drive ramp with sharp detent Rick K. Thompson 2002-09-10
6252745 Latch and linear crash stop for a disc drive actuator arm Dave Paul McReynolds, George I. Brent, Gary F. Kelsic, Richard W. Deichert 2001-06-26
5812345 Monostable active latch for a disk drive actuator Gordon A. Harwood, James W. Boeckner, Jr., Jonathan David Jargon 1998-09-22 $24,322,000
5742453 Passive non-contact magnetic latch for an actuator of a disk drive — 1998-04-21
5313124 Return plate for a voice coil motor in a disk drive — 1994-05-17 $1,408,000
5270999 Apparatus and method for reducing disk distortion H. Ross Chessman, F. Eugene Dion, Mark A. Swenson, Richard Schaefer 1993-12-14 $8,439,000

Frequent Collaborators

Gary F. Kelsic6 shared
Robert A. Alt4 shared
Joe A. Wood2 shared
Rick K. Thompson2 shared
Richard W. Deichert2 shared
James W. Boeckner, Jr.1 shared

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