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Edwin F. Rejda — 17 Patents

STSeagate Technology: 17 patents #346 of 4,722Top 8%
Bloomington, MN: #84 of 1,157 inventorsTop 8%
Minnesota: #4,335 of 52,454 inventorsTop 9%
Overall (All Time): #263,971 of 4,157,543Top 7%
17 Patents All Time
Edwin F. Rejda has been granted 17 US patents while listed as an inventor at Seagate Technology. The first was granted in 2006 and the most recent in January 2025. Edwin F. Rejda ranks #263,971 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 6.3%). Patent records list Edwin F. Rejda in Bloomington, MN, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2006 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2015.peak 42006: 1 patents20062012: 1 patents20122013: 2 patents20132015: 4 patents20152017: 1 patents20172019: 1 patents20192021: 1 patents20212022: 2 patents20222023: 3 patents20232025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–17 of 17 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12190922 Method for forming a HAMR recording head with a protruding near-field transducer Michael Allen Seigler, Peng Zhang, David J. Ellison, James Dillon Kiely 2025-01-07
11763846 Magnetic devices with overcoat that includes a titanium oxynitride layer Zhuoyuan Wu, Richard T. Greenlee 2023-09-19 $22,910,000
11763847 Heat-assisted magnetic recording head, and related methods David J. Ellison, James Dillon Kiely, Neil Zuckerman, Joseph Michael Stephan 2023-09-19 $22,910,000
11691242 Methods of lapping while heating one or more features, and related sliders, row bars, and systems Andrew David Habermas, Jeff O'Konski, Andrew Sherve, Michael Thomas Johnson, Dongming Liu 2023-07-04
11389924 Methods of lapping while heating one or more features, and related sliders, row bars, and systems Andrew David Habermas, Jeff O'Konski, Andrew Sherve, Michael Thomas Johnson, Dongming Liu 2022-07-19 $13,950,000
11222657 Heat-assisted magnetic recording head with a near-field transducer extending beyond the media-facing surface Michael Allen Seigler, Peng Zhang, David J. Ellison, James Dillon Kiely 2022-01-11 $29,934,000
11114122 Magnetic devices with overcoat that includes a titanium oxynitride layer Zhuoyuan Wu, Richard T. Greenlee 2021-09-07 $52,937,000
10424324 Methods of forming portions of near field transducers (NFTS) and articles formed thereby Yuhang Cheng, Sami C. Antrazi, Michael Allen Seigler, Scott Franzen, Philip G. Pitcher +1 more 2019-09-24 $14,969,000
9792935 Magnetic devices with variable overcoats Joseph Michael Stephan, The Ngoc Nguyen, Neil Zuckerman, Gary J. Kunkel, Douglas H. Cole +2 more 2017-10-17 $7,759,000
9129625 Perpendicular magnetic recording heads including components made of nickel alloys Sarbeswar Sahoo 2015-09-08 $7,155,000
9087530 Methods of manufacturing a transducer Ladislav R. Pust, Lars H. Ahlen, David Christopher Seets, Lance E. Stover, Dian Song +1 more 2015-07-21 $7,806,000
9036298 Methods and devices to control write pole height in recording heads Huaqing Yin, Marc Ronshaugen 2015-05-19 $6,208,000
9025281 Magnetic device including a near field transducer Kurt W. Wierman 2015-05-05 $16,497,000
8582242 Magnetic transducer including basecoat and overcoat Paul J. Sonda, Declan Macken 2013-11-12 $5,799,000
8477572 Heat assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) heads including components made of nickel alloys Sarbeswar Sahoo, Ibro Tabakovic, Steven C. Riemer, Michael C. Kautzky 2013-07-02 $14,083,000
8259540 Heat assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) heads including components made of nickel alloys Sarbeswar Sahoo, Ibro Tabakovic, Steven C. Riemer, Michael C. Kautzky 2012-09-04 $21,596,000
7144484 Ion mill shutter system Joel William Hoehn, Shanlin Hao, Lance E. Stover, Todd A. Luse, James R. Peterson 2006-12-05 $40,256,000