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Dong Lin — 32 Patents

STSeagate Technology: 9 patents #718 of 4,701Top 20%
Google: 7 patents #3,814 of 22,993Top 20%
ATAT&T: 2 patents #7,295 of 18,772Top 40%
DIDynamic Invention: 1 patents #8 of 25Top 35%
UIUniversity Of Illinois: 1 patents #1,280 of 3,009Top 45%
University of California: 1 patents #8,022 of 18,278Top 45%
NENetapp: 1 patents #1,159 of 1,846Top 65%
Overall (All Time): #110,428 of 4,157,543Top 3%
32 Patents All Time
Dong Lin has been granted 32 US patents while listed as an inventor at Seagate Technology. The first was granted in 1989 and the most recent in May 2025. Dong Lin ranks #110,428 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.7%). Patent records list Dong Lin in Fangcun, MN, CN.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1989 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2015.peak 31989: 1 patents19891991: 1 patents1998: 1 patents19982004: 2 patents2007: 1 patents20072008: 1 patents2011: 1 patents20112012: 1 patents2014: 2 patents20142015: 3 patents2016: 2 patents20162017: 3 patents2018: 2 patents20182019: 1 patents2020: 2 patents20202021: 1 patents2022: 1 patents20222023: 1 patents2024: 2 patents20242025: 3 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 32 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
D1077330 Projection light 2025-05-27
D1070137 Spot light 2025-04-08
D1068125 Flashlight 2025-03-25
D1056300 Ceiling lamp 2024-12-31
12146647 Picture frame with front-shining LED lights 2024-11-19
11645677 Expected activity of a user Shankar R. Ponnekanti 2023-05-09 $112,879,000
11222364 Expected activity of a user Shankar R. Ponnekanti 2022-01-11 $97,719,000
10972310 Link state packet transmission method and routing node Zhongyan Fan, Kit Sang Tang 2021-04-06
10769673 Expected activity of a user Shankar R. Ponnekanti 2020-09-08 $43,773,000
10586559 Side shield formation Jia Sun, Shen Zhe, Jianhua Xue, Wei Tian, Joe Mundenar 2020-03-10 $7,166,000
10217132 Content evaluation based on users browsing history Nicholas Johnson, Shankar R. Ponnekanti 2019-02-26 $26,318,000
10026423 Moderate mill resist and wet-etchable alloy for use in a recording head fabrication process Venkateswara Rao Inturi, Steven C. Riemer, Joseph Mundenar, Alexander Bramer 2018-07-17 $8,635,000
9922671 Main pole layer with at least two sacrificial layers and a gap layer Wei Tian, Venkateswara Rao Inturi, Huaqing Yin, Jiaoming Qiu 2018-03-20 $25,484,000
9852452 Expected activity of a user Shankar R. Ponnekanti 2017-12-26 $14,181,000
9761252 Write head having beveled non-magnetic write gap seed layer Wei Tian, Venkateswara Rao Inturi, Huaqing Yin, Jiaoming Qiu 2017-09-12 $6,411,000
9640204 Magnetic recording head front shield formation Xiaohong Zhang, Wei Tian, Zhe Shen, Joseph Mundenar 2017-05-02 $15,932,000
9495979 Magnetic recording head front shield formation Xiaohong Zhang, Wei Tian, Zhe Shen, Joseph Mundenar 2016-11-15 $19,857,000
9396741 Data writer side shield with cantilevered protrusions Wei Tian, Xiaohong Zhang, Joseph Mundenar, Jia Sun 2016-07-19 $8,006,000
9159083 Content evaluation based on user's browsing history Nicholas Johnson, Shankar R. Ponnekanti 2015-10-13 $21,342,000
9077669 Efficient lookup methods for ternary content addressable memory and associated devices and systems Mounir Hamdi 2015-07-07
9047620 Expected activity of a user Shankar R. Ponnekanti 2015-06-02 $8,950,000
8842390 Write pole box shield Zhe Shen, Luo Yong, Wei Tan 2014-09-23 $18,418,000
8830624 Write pole for recording head Yong Luo, Zhe Shen, Huaqing Yin 2014-09-09 $10,672,000
8327701 Impeller assembly mounting structure of vane anemometer 2012-12-11
7925749 System and method for transparent data replication over migrating virtual servers Ravikanth Dronamraju, Mark Lee Muhlstein, Michael L. Federwisch 2011-04-12 $15,277,000