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Abebe Hailu — 11 Patents

STSeagate Technology: 11 patents #551 of 4,722Top 15%
San Jose, CA: #5,902 of 32,062 inventorsTop 20%
California: #56,011 of 386,348 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #435,149 of 4,157,543Top 15%
11 Patents All Time
Abebe Hailu has been granted 11 US patents while listed as an inventor at Seagate Technology. The first was granted in 2005 and the most recent in August 2017. Abebe Hailu ranks #435,149 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 10.5%). Patent records list Abebe Hailu in San Jose, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2005 to 2017Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2014.peak 22005: 1 patents20052007: 1 patents20072009: 1 patents20092011: 1 patents20112012: 1 patents20122014: 2 patents20142015: 2 patents20152016: 1 patents20162017: 1 patents2017

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–11 of 11 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9734857 Stack including a magnetic zero layer Jai-Young Kim, Thomas P. Nolan, Kyongha Kang, Shoutao Wang, Vincent Nguyen +1 more 2017-08-15 $16,190,000
9311948 Magnetic layering for bit-patterned stack Erol Girt, Dieter K. Weller, Alexander Y. Dobin, Bogdan Florin Valcu, Thomas F. Ambrose +2 more 2016-04-12 $6,087,000
9190095 Interlayer comprising chromium-containing alloy Shoutao Wang, Weilu Xu, Chung-Hee Chang, Xiaoguang Ma, Mark W. Johnson +1 more 2015-11-17 $4,895,000
9093101 Stack including a magnetic zero layer Jai-Young Kim, Thomas P. Nolan, Kyongha Kang, Shoutao Wang, Vincent Nguyen +1 more 2015-07-28 $6,619,000
8696874 Seed layer comprising FCC structure Shoutao Wang, Weilu Xu, Chunghee Chang, Xiaoguang Ma, Mark W. Johnson +1 more 2014-04-15 $16,579,000
8685547 Magnetic recording media with enhanced writability and thermal stability Bo Bian, Shoutao Wang, Weilu Xu, Miaogen Lu, Charles Chen +2 more 2014-04-01 $11,329,000
8110299 Granular perpendicular media interlayer for a storage device Shoutao Wang, Weilu Xu, Chunghee Chang, Xiaoguang Ma, Mark W. Johnson +1 more 2012-02-07 $35,663,000
8025993 Recording media interlayer structure Weilu Xu, Xiaoguang Ma, Chung-Hee Chang, Shoutao Wang, Charles Chen 2011-09-27 $7,526,000
7504166 Magnetic recording media having five element alloy deposited using pulsed direct current sputtering Charles Chen, Thanh Thien Ha, Taesun Kim, Mariana Rodica Munteanu, Steve Kuo-Hsing Hwang 2009-03-17 $12,268,000
7157161 CrB and CrMoB as third underlayer to refine grains Charles Changging Chen, Mariana Rodica Munteanu 2007-01-02
6878460 Thin-film magnetic recording media with dual intermediate layer structure for increased coercivity Charles Chen, Taesun Kim 2005-04-12 $10,668,000