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David Christopher Seets — 10 Patents

STSeagate Technology: 10 patents #581 of 4,701Top 15%
Excelsior, MN: #34 of 237 inventorsTop 15%
Minnesota: #7,600 of 52,454 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #481,000 of 4,157,543Top 15%
10 Patents All Time
David Christopher Seets has been granted 10 US patents while listed as an inventor at Seagate Technology. The first was granted in 2006 and the most recent in March 2016. David Christopher Seets ranks #481,000 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 11.6%). Patent records list David Christopher Seets in Excelsior, MN, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–10 of 10 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9283651 Apparatus including electrical lapping guide and methods of using the same Yongjun Zhao, Mark Ostrowski 2016-03-15 $6,235,000
9196279 Near field transducer with isolated peg Yongjun Zhao, Mark Ostrowski 2015-11-24 $6,807,000
9087530 Methods of manufacturing a transducer Ladislav R. Pust, Lars H. Ahlen, Edwin F. Rejda, Lance E. Stover, Dian Song +1 more 2015-07-21 $7,806,000
8848316 Perpendicular write head with laminated side shields Mark Thomas Kief, Alexandru Cazacu, Kaizhong Gao, Mark Anthony Gubbins, Ibro Tabakovic +2 more 2014-09-30 $17,577,000
8808524 Direct electrodeposition of magnetic recording head features James K. Price, Mary Elizabeth Leamont, Ibro Tabakovic, Steven C. Riemer, Tracy Charles Baresh 2014-08-19 $13,156,000
8699183 Write pole and shield with different taper angles Sarbeswar Sahoo, Michael C. Kautzky, Hui Brickner, Mark Thomas Kief 2014-04-15 $16,579,000
8649124 Double shell writers Jie Zou, James Gary Wessel, Jianhua Xue, Lixin Jia 2014-02-11 $13,097,000
8189294 Apparatus including modified write pole tip Harry Sam Edelman, Mourad Benakli, Kirill Rivkin 2012-05-29 $15,422,000
7411264 Etch-stop layers for patterning block structures for reducing thermal protrusion Mallika Kamarajugadda, Michael C. Kautzky, Stacy C. Wakham, Arun Natarajun 2008-08-12 $24,455,000
7092208 Magnetic transducers with reduced thermal pole-tip protrusion/recession Jie Zou, Jason Bryce Gadbois, Declan Macken, Michael C. Kautzky, Ladislav R. Pust 2006-08-15 $16,671,000