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John Wolf — 18 Patents

STSeagate Technology: 18 patents #319 of 4,701Top 7%
Maple Grove, MN: #119 of 1,211 inventorsTop 10%
Minnesota: #4,045 of 52,454 inventorsTop 8%
Overall (All Time): #245,716 of 4,157,543Top 6%
18 Patents All Time
John Wolf has been granted 18 US patents while listed as an inventor at Seagate Technology. The first was granted in 2014 and the most recent in September 2021. John Wolf ranks #245,716 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.9%). Patent records list John Wolf in Maple Grove, MN, US.

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Showing 1–18 of 18 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11120830 Recording head with transfer-printed laser diode unit formed of non-self-supporting layers Aidan Dominic Goggin, Mark Anthony Gubbins, Paula Frances McElhinney, Roger L. Hipwell, Jr. 2021-09-14 $11,242,000
10783917 Recording head with transfer-printed laser diode unit formed of non-self-supporting layers Aidan Dominic Goggin, Mark Anthony Gubbins, Paula Frances McElhinney, Roger L. Hipwell, Jr. 2020-09-22 $6,972,000
10049693 Substrate heat channels for heat assisted magnetic recording for reader over writer transducer application Erik Jon Hutchinson 2018-08-14 $8,644,000
9934807 Bond pad sharing for powering multiple writers of a recording head Declan Macken, Paul J. Sonda, Erik Jon Hutchinson, Jin Fang 2018-04-03 $10,046,000
9842618 Combined write/active fly control for heat assisted magnetic recording in a reader over writer application Erik Jon Hutchinson, Todd Michael Lammers 2017-12-12 $10,172,000
9697852 Single coil turn data writer Jianhua Xue, Debin Wang, Huaqing Yin, Erik Jon Hutchinson, Wei Tian +1 more 2017-07-04
9691419 ESD protection surface charge control recording head Daniel W. Olson, Declan Macken, Gavin Lee Brinkley 2017-06-27 $13,706,000
9396745 Multi-sensor reader with different readback sensitivities Declan Macken, Jason Bryce Gadbois, Eric W. Singleton 2016-07-19 $8,006,000
9286918 Write head with coil structure aligned with yoke Jianhua Xue, Jiaoming Qiu, Kirill Rivkin, Huaqing Yin, Yonghua Chen 2016-03-15 $6,235,000
9159340 Coil structure for write head Jiaoming Qiu, Jianhua Xue, Kevin Heim, Kirill Rivkin, Huaqing Yin +1 more 2015-10-13 $9,003,000
9153257 Write head having reduced dimensions Jianhua Xue, Kevin Heim, Kirill Rivkin, Huaqing Yin 2015-10-06 $6,400,000
9082427 Write head having reduced dimensions Jianhua Xue, Kevin Heim, Kirill Rivkin, Huaqing Yin 2015-07-14 $6,484,000
9082428 Write head with coil structure aligned with yoke Jianhua Xue, Jiaoming Qiu, Kirill Rivkin, Huaqing Yin, Yonghua Chen 2015-07-14 $6,484,000
9058829 Multiple heaters independently controlling clearance of two or more read transducers Erik Jon Hutchinson 2015-06-16 $11,694,000
8947807 Independently driven write coils Kevin Heim, Kirill Rivkin, Eric Roger Meloche 2015-02-03 $7,584,000
8929030 Magnetic writer for field assisted magnetic recording Chunhong Hou, Shaoping Li, Sining Mao 2015-01-06 $11,162,000
8873199 Recording head coil structure Eric Roger Meolche, Chris Rea, Jianhua Xue, Eric S. Linville 2014-10-28 $9,410,000
8687318 Recording head coil structure Eric Roger Meloche, Chris Rea, Jianhua Xue, Eric S. Linville 2014-04-01 $11,329,000