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Ganping Ju — 58 Patents

STSeagate Technology: 56 patents #51 of 4,722Top 2%
CUCarnegie Mellon University: 1 patents #637 of 1,507Top 45%
UMUniversity of Minnesota: 1 patents #1,216 of 2,951Top 45%
Pleasanton, CA: #74 of 3,062 inventorsTop 3%
California: #6,228 of 386,348 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #41,319 of 4,157,543Top 1%
58 Patents All Time
Ganping Ju has been granted 58 US patents while listed as an inventor at Seagate Technology. The first was granted in 2004 and the most recent in November 2025. Ganping Ju ranks #41,319 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.99%). Patent records list Ganping Ju in Pleasanton, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2004 to 2024Bar chart with a peak of 9 patents in 2016.peak 92004: 1 patents20042005: 1 patents2007: 2 patents20072009: 1 patents2010: 1 patents20102011: 3 patents2012: 6 patents20122013: 3 patents2014: 7 patents20142015: 3 patents2016: 9 patents20162017: 6 patents2018: 7 patents20182019: 4 patents2021: 1 patents20212023: 1 patents2024: 1 patents2024

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 58 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12482488 Heat-sink structure in magnetic stack, and related articles, systems, and methods Wei-Heng Hsu, Pin-Wei Huang, Yiyun Peng, Yassine Quessab, Yue-Jun Hu +2 more 2025-11-25
11963464 Exchange-coupled composites Cheng-Huan Wang, Pin-Wei Huang, Kuo Hsing Hwang 2024-04-16 $32,204,000
11763845 Magnetic stack including non-magnetic seed layer for hard disk drive media Florin Zavaliche, Kai-Chieh Chang, Pin-Wei Huang, Jan-Ulrich Thiele 2023-09-19 $22,910,000
10930840 Exchange-coupled composites Cheng-Huan Wang, Pin-Wei Huang, Kuo Hsing Hwang 2021-02-23 $19,085,000
10438614 Method and apparatus for degaussing heat-assisted magnetic recording media Kangkang Wang, Edward Charles Gage 2019-10-08 $23,992,000
10373637 Granularity in overlying magnetic and non-magnetic layers Bin Lu, Jan-Ulrich Thiele, Xiaoding Ma, Yingguo Peng, Yinfeng Ding 2019-08-06 $17,077,000
10310182 Patterned plasmonic underlayer Chubing Peng, Xiaobin Zhu, Yingguo Peng, Yukiko Kubota, Timothy J. Klemmer +6 more 2019-06-04 $9,112,000
10249335 Composite HAMR media structure for high areal density Randall H. Victora, Zengyuan Liu, Pin-Wei Huang, Jan-Ulrich Thiele 2019-04-02 $12,702,000
10134446 Heat-assisted rotating disk magnetometer for ultra-high anisotropy magnetic measurements Kangkang Wang, Xiaobin Zhu, Kai-Chieh Chang, Yingguo Peng, Timothy J. Klemmer +2 more 2018-11-20 $14,953,000
10006884 Method and apparatus for determining Curie temperature distribution of a sample of magnetic material Jason L Presseky, Roy William Chantrell, Xiaowei Wu, Xi Chen, Xiaobin Zhu +1 more 2018-06-26 $44,812,000
9984709 Heat assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) media with thermal exchange control layer of lower curie temperature Pin-Wei Huang, Yinfeng Ding, Yingguo Peng, Xiaobin Zhu, Kai-Chieh Chang +5 more 2018-05-29 $11,807,000
9940962 Low power thermally assisted data recording media Jan-Ulrich Thiele, Yinfeng Ding, Yingguo Peng, Kai-Chieh Chang, Timothy J. Klemmer +2 more 2018-04-10 $21,506,000
9916868 Heat-assisted rotating disk magnetometer for ultra-high anisotropy magnetic measurements Kangkang Wang, Xiaobin Zhu, Kai-Chieh Chang, Yingguo Peng, Timothy J. Klemmer +2 more 2018-03-13 $15,063,000
9911446 Three dimensional data storage media Joachim Walter Ahner, David M. Tung, Philip L. Steiner, Thomas P. Nolan, Thomas Young Chang +4 more 2018-03-06 $24,876,000
9899050 Multiple layer FePt structure Jiaoming Qiu, Yonghua Chen, Thomas P. Nolan 2018-02-20 $14,320,000
9799363 Damping controlled composite magnetic media for heat assisted magnetic recording Xi Chen, Yingguo Peng, Jan-Ulrich Thiele, Thomas A. Roscamp 2017-10-24 $9,104,000
9779771 Capping layer for magnetic recording stack Kangkang Wang, Yingguo Peng, Xiaobin Zhu, Li Gao, Yinfeng Ding +5 more 2017-10-03 $10,633,000
9697857 Three dimensional data storage media Joachim Walter Ahner, David M. Tung, Philip L. Steiner, Thomas P. Nolan, Thomas Young Chang +4 more 2017-07-04
9689065 Magnetic stack including crystallized segregant induced columnar magnetic recording layer Jingsheng Chen, Kaifeng Dong, Yingguo Peng 2017-06-27 $13,706,000
9685183 Magnetic layer Yingguo Peng, Xiaowei Wu, Bin Lu 2017-06-20 $12,119,000
9589588 Heat-assisted rotating disk magnetometer for ultra-high anisotropy magnetic measurements Kangkang Wang, Xiaobin Zhu, Kai-Chieh Chang, Yingguo Peng, Timothy J. Klemmer +1 more 2017-03-07 $17,990,000
9520151 Multiple layer FePt structure Jiaoming Qui, Yonghua Chen, Thomas P. Nolan 2016-12-13 $29,058,000
9502065 Data media with tuned thermal conductivity and magnetic permeability KaiChieh Chang, Xiaobin Zhu, Yinfeng Deng, Timothy J. Klemmer, Yukiko Kubota +4 more 2016-11-22 $10,637,000
9443544 Recording layer for heat assisted magnetic recording Yingguo Peng, Jan-Ulrich Thiele, Thomas P. Nolan, Yinfeng Ding, Alexander Qihong Wu 2016-09-13 $20,358,000
9368142 Magnetic stack including TiN-X intermediate layer Jingsheng Chen, Huihui Li, Yingguo Peng 2016-06-14 $7,116,000