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John R. Yaeger — 14 Patents

STSeagate Technology: 8 patents #807 of 4,722Top 20%
RLRaychem Limited: 6 patents #148 of 1,006Top 15%
Sunnyvale, CA: #1,994 of 14,302 inventorsTop 15%
California: #43,920 of 386,348 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #332,869 of 4,157,543Top 9%
14 Patents All Time
John R. Yaeger has been granted 14 US patents while listed as an inventor at Seagate Technology. The first was granted in 1985 and the most recent in February 2003. John R. Yaeger ranks #332,869 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 8.0%). Patent records list John R. Yaeger in Sunnyvale, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1985 to 2003Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 1985.peak 41985: 4 patents19851987: 2 patents19871991: 4 patents19911995: 1 patents19952000: 1 patents20002002: 1 patents20022003: 1 patents2003

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–14 of 14 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
6519115 Low wear, low friction ramp method and apparatus for a disc drive system 2003-02-11 $7,333,000
6377424 Shock-tolerant head gimbaling assembly for a disc drive having reduced disc spacing 2002-04-23
6057975 Fly height adjustment in magnetic storage system Lawrence W. Gollbach, John E. Jones 2000-05-02 $28,711,000
5463514 Disc drive slider lifter using shape memory metals 1995-10-31 $30,689,000
5062018 Swaged head arm mounting arrangement for disc drives using shape memory alloy 1991-10-29 $4,109,000
5060099 Disc drive slider lifter using shape memory metals Ramgopal Battu 1991-10-22 $4,045,000
5023737 Disc drive slider lifter using shape memory materials 1991-06-11 $3,190,000
4996617 Disc drive safety latch using shape memory metals Suzanne R. Wilkins 1991-02-26 $12,924,000
4713643 Low loss circuit breaker and actuator mechanism therefor Samuel Baum 1987-12-15 $6,463,000
4684913 Slider lifter 1987-08-04 $2,746,000
4559512 Self-protecting and conditioning memory metal actuator Robert Morgan 1985-12-17 $3,005,000
4551974 Shape memory effect actuator and methods of assembling and operating therefor Robert Morgan 1985-11-12 $2,650,000
4524343 Self-regulated actuator Robert Morgan 1985-06-18 $2,179,000
4490975 Self-protecting and conditioning memory metal actuator Robert Morgan 1985-01-01