Alan Johnston has been granted 9 US patents while listed as an inventor at Seagate Technology . The first was granted in 1999 and the most recent in June 2012. Alan Johnston ranks #535,341 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 12.9%). Patent records list Alan Johnston in Glasgow, GB.
Patents per Year Patents granted per year, 1999 to 2012 Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2010. peak 2 1999: 1 patents 1999 2001: 1 patents 2001 2002: 1 patents 2002 2003: 1 patents 2003 2004: 1 patents 2004 2007: 1 patents 2007 2010: 2 patents 2010 2012: 1 patents 2012
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Showing 1–9 of 9 patents
Patent # Title Co-Inventors Date Approx Value ⓘ
8194508 Waveform based bit detection for bit patterned media Dieter K. Weller , Mark Anthony Gubbins 2012-06-05
$8,263,000
7835110 MEMS disc drive Roger L. Hipwell, Jr. , Hans Leuthold , Song S. Xue , Nurul Amin , Andrew White +6 more 2010-11-16
$14,287,000
7826171 Interconnect architecture for disc drive array Roger L. Hipwell, Jr. , Hans Leuthold , Song S. Xue , Nurul Amin , Andrew White +6 more 2010-11-02
$4,037,000
7233457 Head for perpendicular recording with reduced erasure Mark Anthony Gubbins , William J. O'Kane 2007-06-19
$87,532,000
6807027 Ruthenium as non-magnetic seedlayer for electrodeposition Peter McGeehin , Alison M. Bell 2004-10-19
$15,698,000
6597545 Shield design for magnetoresistive sensor Declan Macken , Harry Sam Edelman 2003-07-22
$15,995,000
6456460 Track width definition by patterning of shared pole for integrated thin film/magnetoresistive head Maura P. Connolly , Mark Troutman , David Hutson 2002-09-24
6222702 Magnetic read element shield having dimensions that minimize domain wall movement Declan Macken , Gregory S. Mowry , Charles H. Tolman 2001-04-24
5986856 Magnetoresistive sensor with improved stability Declan Macken 1999-11-16
$11,168,000