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John Bortins — 9 Patents

STSeagate Technology: 9 patents #669 of 4,722Top 15%
Bloomington, MN: #176 of 1,157 inventorsTop 20%
Minnesota: #8,400 of 52,454 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #535,341 of 4,157,543Top 15%
9 Patents All Time
John Bortins has been granted 9 US patents while listed as an inventor at Seagate Technology. The first was granted in 1992 and the most recent in December 1997. John Bortins ranks #535,341 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 12.9%). Patent records list John Bortins in Bloomington, MN, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1992 to 1997Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 1993.peak 31992: 2 patents19921993: 3 patents19931994: 1 patents19941995: 2 patents19951997: 1 patents1997

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–9 of 9 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
5699605 Method for forming a magnetic thin film head with recessed basecoat Nurul Amin, Ying D. Yan 1997-12-23 $19,747,000
5471354 Servo head with close servo transducer placement for improved passive noise cancellation Frank S. Stageberg, Lance E. Stover, Gerald L. Weispfenning 1995-11-28 $36,484,000
5406434 Thin film head with contoured pole face edges for undershoot reduction Nurul Amin, Ying D. Yan, Beat G. Keel, Nathan Curland, Tim Madsen 1995-04-11 $20,474,000
5373624 Leading edge undershoot elimination in thin film heads Ying D. Yan, Beat G. Keel, Nurul Amin 1994-12-20 $17,112,000
5210669 Methods of improved servo head passive noise cancellation by placement and orientation of multiple servo transducers Gerald L. Weispfenning 1993-05-11 $6,524,000
5198948 Shielded servo heads with improved passive noise cancellation Lance E. Stover, Beat G. Keel, Gerald L. Weispfenning 1993-03-30 $12,008,000
5181152 Leading edge undershoot elimination in thin film heads Ying D. Yan, Beat G. Keel, Nurul Amin 1993-01-19 $15,213,000
5137750 Method of making a thin film head with contoured pole face edges for undershoot reduction Nurul Amin, Ying D. Yan, Beat G. Keel, Nathan Curland, Tim Madsen 1992-08-11 $12,859,000
5084957 Method for aligning thin film head pole tips Nurul Amin, Beat G. Keel, Ying D. Yan 1992-02-04 $13,263,000