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Mark J. Schaenzer — 41 Patents

STSeagate Technology: 40 patents #91 of 4,701Top 2%
Mequon, WI: #9 of 452 inventorsTop 2%
Wisconsin: #592 of 40,088 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #75,001 of 4,157,543Top 2%
41 Patents All Time
Mark J. Schaenzer has been granted 41 US patents while listed as an inventor at Seagate Technology. The first was granted in 1982 and the most recent in September 2005. Mark J. Schaenzer ranks #75,001 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.8%). Patent records list Mark J. Schaenzer in Mequon, WI, US.

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Showing 1–25 of 41 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
6940669 Wide write head with thermal asperity detector and method of using the same Scott Franzen 2005-09-06 $7,731,000
6700727 Slider and method for actively controlling crown curvature Peter Crane, Anthony P. Sannino, Zine-Eddine Boutaghou 2004-03-02 $10,886,000
6604948 Double-double (2×2) tester paddle board AKA 2×2 paddle board Frank W. Schadewald, Jr., Zuxuan Lin 2003-08-12 $9,577,000
6577466 Head with active fly height control Dallas W. Meyer, Zhu Feng, Chung Shih, Chiu-Shing Frank Poon, Vidyadhara K. Gubbi 2003-06-10 $11,340,000
6573711 Paddle board with extended flexible leads Frank W. Schadewald, Jr. 2003-06-03 $5,755,000
6563785 Method of manufacturing rounded edge recording head Phillip E. Gorka 2003-05-13 $6,350,000
6545844 Clock head with spacer Stephen John Miller, Gordon Jones 2003-04-08 $5,480,000
6507467 Comb shunt for ESD protection Frank W. Schadewald, Jr., Scott Franzen 2003-01-14 $15,447,000
6503132 Hybrid burnish/glide head with advanced air bearing fly height control rails Robert P. Ekstrum, William Omar Liners, Laurie J. Schulz, Zuxuan Lin 2003-01-07
6381098 Laser textured transducing head slider Zine-Eddine Boutaghou 2002-04-30
6366416 Glide test head with active fly height control Dallas W. Meyer, Zhu Feng, Chung Shih, Chiu-Shing Frank Poon, Vidyadhara K. Gubbi 2002-04-02
6358123 Apparatus and method for reducing disc surface asperities to sub-microinch height William Omar Liners 2002-03-19
6322431 Burnish head with ion milled aerodynamic pads configured in an elliptical pattern William Omar Liners, Daniel Paul Burbank 2001-11-27
6320371 Flex lead extender Frank W. Schadewald, Jr., Robert P. Ekstrum 2001-11-20
6309283 Apparatus and method for reducing disc surface asperities to sub-microinch height William Omar Liners 2001-10-30
6296552 Burnishing head with fly height control spacer Zine-Eddine Boutaghou, William Omar Liners, Joel William Hoehn, Andreas A. Polycarpou 2001-10-02
6273793 Apparatus and method for reducing disc surface asperities to sub-microinch height William Omar Liners 2001-08-14
6269687 Force sensing slider Jing Tony Zhang, Lei Zhang, Peter Segar 2001-08-07
6216242 Multiple-track magneto-resistive certification and thermal asperity test head 2001-04-10
6205849 Glide head using an ion etched air bearing Zine-Eddine Boutaghou 2001-03-27
6196062 Trailing edge acoustic emission sensor and pyroelectric sensor for asperity detection John S. Wright 2001-03-06
6185993 Single sided sensor for glide height testing Zine-Eddine Boutaghou 2001-02-13
6150813 Method of connecting heads of a data storage system to a testing apparatus Frank W. Schadewald, Jr. 2000-11-21 $31,009,000
6104556 Wide write disc certification process, apparatus and article of manufacture 2000-08-15 $35,610,000
6079088 Method of fabricating a data storage system head slider having an internal accelerometer Zine-Eddine Boutaghou, He Huang 2000-06-27 $28,468,000