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Aric Menon — 12 Patents

STSeagate Technology: 5 patents #1,297 of 4,722Top 30%
W(Western Digital (Fremont): 3 patents #181 of 473Top 40%
RRRead Rite: 3 patents #86 of 255Top 35%
Bloomington, MN: #121 of 1,157 inventorsTop 15%
Minnesota: #6,327 of 52,454 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #396,045 of 4,157,543Top 10%
12 Patents All Time
Aric Menon has been granted 12 US patents while listed as an inventor at Seagate Technology. The first was granted in 2000 and the most recent in March 2005. Aric Menon ranks #396,045 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 9.5%). Patent records list Aric Menon in Bloomington, MN, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2000 to 2005Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2001.peak 42000: 1 patents20002001: 4 patents20012002: 1 patents20022003: 3 patents20032004: 1 patents20042005: 2 patents2005

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–12 of 12 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
6873547 High capacity MRAM memory array architecture Xizeng(Stone) Shi, Hua-Ching Tong 2005-03-29
6856489 Airflow assisted ramp loading and unloading of sliders in hard disk drives Muhammad A. Hawwa, Jamshid Bozorgi 2005-02-15 $7,172,000
6717773 Airflow assisted ramp loading and unloading of sliders in hard disk drives Muhammad A. Hawwa, Jamshid Bozorgi 2004-04-06 $32,676,000
6665146 Airflow assisted ramp loading and unloading of sliders in hard disk drives Muhammad A. Hawwa, Jamshid Bozorgi 2003-12-16 $15,571,000
6535355 Pitch and roll attitude control for sliders in a disk drive Zine-Eddine Boutaghou 2003-03-18 $5,271,000
6515791 Active reflection and anti-reflection optical switch Muhammad A. Hawwa 2003-02-04 $638,000
6437945 Airflow assisted ramp loading and unloading of sliders in hard disk drives Muhammad A. Hawwa, Jamshid Bozorgi 2002-08-20 $1,594,000
6333836 Head suspension assembly for a data storage device Zine-Eddine Boutaghou 2001-12-25
6275356 Friction control on HGA ramp load/unload surface Zine-Eddine Boutaghou 2001-08-14
6233118 System for capturing wear debris in a data storage system Zine-Eddine Boutaghou 2001-05-15
6195235 Slider with deposited roughened surface structure Zine-Eddine Boutaghou 2001-02-27
6134076 Adjustment feature for load/unload alignment of multiple disk stack ramp assembly Zine-Eddine Boutaghou 2000-10-17 $36,233,000