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Frederick M. Stefansky — 41 Patents

STSeagate Technology: 23 patents #224 of 4,701Top 5%
CPConner Peripherals: 17 patents #1 of 131Top 1%
STSeagate Technologies: 1 patents #14 of 110Top 15%
Longmont, CO: #48 of 2,039 inventorsTop 3%
Colorado: #618 of 40,980 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #75,001 of 4,157,543Top 2%
41 Patents All Time
Frederick M. Stefansky has been granted 41 US patents while listed as an inventor at Seagate Technology. The first was granted in 1990 and the most recent in January 2004. Frederick M. Stefansky ranks #75,001 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.8%). Patent records list Frederick M. Stefansky in Longmont, CO, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 41 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
6680813 Disc drive having a printed circuit board port connector Wallis A. Dague 2004-01-20 $11,457,000
6636388 Disc drive suspension having a moving coil or moving magnet microactuator 2003-10-21 $11,549,000
6594117 Disc drive magnetic latch mechanism Wallis A. Dague 2003-07-15 $9,971,000
6567238 Disc clamp for a disc drive Frederick Renken 2003-05-20 $13,747,000
6545845 Actuator assembly retaining clip Wallis A. Dague 2003-04-08 $5,480,000
6519110 Disk drive pass-through connector Wallis A. Dague 2003-02-11 $7,333,000
6429555 Spindle motor for a hard disc drive with a combination seal and electrical connector Wallis A. Dague 2002-08-06
6429999 Pre-assembled voice coil magnetic assembly and rotatable attachment structure/method to base plate for disc drive Wallis A. Dague 2002-08-06
6426847 Over-molded base plate and method of manufacture of over-molded base plate for a disc drive Wallis A. Dague 2002-07-30
6417988 Disc clamp for a disc drive Frederick Renken 2002-07-09
6320730 Low-stress disc drive microactuator cradle Rishi Kant 2001-11-20
6317296 Magnetic parking device for disk drive Richard B. Balsley, Jr., Robert W. Yates, Steven R. Speckmann 2001-11-13
6297936 Integral load beam push-pull microactuator Rishi Kant 2001-10-02
6295185 Disc drive suspension having a moving coil or moving magnet microactuator 2001-09-25
6222706 Flexure microactuator Kenneth Altshuler, Wallis A. Dague, Rishi Kant 2001-04-24
6215629 Unitary synchronous flexure microactuator Rishi Kant 2001-04-10
6166890 In plane, push-pull parallel force microactuator Rishi Kant 2000-12-26
6128164 Baseplate design for the arm and suspension assembly for minimal gram-force and z-height variation Rishi Kant 2000-10-03 $74,593,000
6113277 Actuator pivot bearing with reduced hysteresis Albert Michael Lindrose 2000-09-05 $15,230,000
6097577 Hydrodynamic resistant latch for data transducer assembly and rotating disk storage device 2000-08-01 $28,099,000
6094342 Disk drive jacket Wallis A. Dague, Steven R. Speckmann 2000-07-25 $50,936,000
6040960 Air damper for disc drive actuator latch mechanism Albert Michael Lindrose 2000-03-21 $91,686,000
5956213 Latch mechanism for disk drive using magnetic field of actuator magnets Wallis A. Dague 1999-09-21 $16,952,000
5847896 Disk drive including sloped base and cover 1998-12-08
5844754 Stackable actuator assembly having spring retaining system Karl E. Hase, William J. Bryan, Michael J. Lerdal 1998-12-01 $38,220,000