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Chris Rea — 18 Patents

STSeagate Technology: 17 patents #336 of 4,722Top 8%
Edina, MN: #75 of 909 inventorsTop 9%
Minnesota: #4,045 of 52,454 inventorsTop 8%
Overall (All Time): #245,716 of 4,157,543Top 6%
18 Patents All Time
Chris Rea has been granted 18 US patents while listed as an inventor at Seagate Technology. The first was granted in 2012 and the most recent in November 2018. Chris Rea ranks #245,716 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.9%). Patent records list Chris Rea in Edina, MN, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2012 to 2018Bar chart with a peak of 7 patents in 2015.peak 72012: 1 patents20122014: 6 patents20142015: 7 patents20152017: 3 patents20172018: 1 patents2018

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–18 of 18 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10142530 System and method for taking high resolution photographs and videos using a mobile device mount with illumination Ross Quentin Smith, Joan Lorraine Wood, Jindrich Semenec, Peter Pressesky 2018-11-27
9837112 Optical reflectors for use with a near-field transducer Ruoxi Yang, James Gary Wessel, Rachel Frakie, Chubing Peng, Werner Scholz +3 more 2017-12-05 $13,055,000
9792935 Magnetic devices with variable overcoats Edwin F. Rejda, Joseph Michael Stephan, The Ngoc Nguyen, Neil Zuckerman, Gary J. Kunkel +2 more 2017-10-17 $7,759,000
9536554 Apparatus with first and second close points on media-facing surface of magnetic head Neil Zuckerman, Raul Horatio Andruet, James Gary Wessel 2017-01-03 $11,416,000
9202490 Apparatus with first and second close points on media-facing surface of magnetic head Neil Zuckerman, Raul Horacio Andruet, James Gary Wessel 2015-12-01 $2,829,000
9202479 Heat assisted magnetic recording head with write coil heatsink James Gary Wessel, Raul Horacio Andruet 2015-12-01 $2,829,000
9202497 Adjusting a clearance between a magnetic head and a magnetic recording medium using a magnetic force Raul Horacio Andruet 2015-12-01 $2,829,000
9111551 Recording head structure Michael Allen Seigler, Neil Zuckerman 2015-08-18 $6,781,000
9076475 Apparatuses and methods for controlling near-field transducer to write pole spacing Hua Zhou, Yongjun Zhao, Werner Scholz, James Gary Wessel 2015-07-07 $14,322,000
9070385 Solid immersion mirror with fill material between inner and outer sidewalls Neil Zuckerman, Scott Eugene Olson, Zoran Jandric 2015-06-30 $5,987,000
9019661 Apparatus with a plurality of heat sinks Zoran Jandric, Hua Zhou 2015-04-28 $6,557,000
8897105 Solid immersion mirror with fill material between inner and outer sidewalls Neil Zuckerman, Scott Eugene Olson, Zoran Jandric 2014-11-25 $15,299,000
8891205 Apparatuses and methods for controlling near-field transducer to write pole spacing Hua Zhou, Yongjun Zhao, Werner Scholz, James Gary Wessel 2014-11-18 $17,752,000
8873199 Recording head coil structure Eric Roger Meolche, Jianhua Xue, Eric S. Linville, John Wolf 2014-10-28 $9,410,000
8873352 Light mitigation layer between write pole and waveguide Zoran Jandric, Pierre Asselin, Michael Thomas Johnson, Manuel Charles Anaya-Dufresne, John Charles Duda 2014-10-28 $9,410,000
8804283 Chamfered magnetic write pole Eric Roger Meloche, Eric S. Linville, Jianhua Xue, Huaqing Yin 2014-08-12 $11,562,000
8687318 Recording head coil structure Eric Roger Meloche, Jianhua Xue, Eric S. Linville, John Wolf 2014-04-01 $11,329,000
8089724 Self-aligned perpendicular writer pole and front shield Huaqing Yin, Jianhua Xue, Steve A. Mastain 2012-01-03 $21,846,000