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Mark William Covington — 53 Patents

STSeagate Technology: 49 patents #65 of 4,722Top 2%
GAGeneral Atomics: 2 patents #88 of 350Top 30%
Applied Materials: 2 patents #3,681 of 7,310Top 55%
Edina, MN: #23 of 909 inventorsTop 3%
Minnesota: #798 of 52,454 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #48,528 of 4,157,543Top 2%
53 Patents All Time
Mark William Covington has been granted 53 US patents while listed as an inventor at Seagate Technology. The first was granted in 2004 and the most recent in February 2022. Mark William Covington ranks #48,528 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.2%). Patent records list Mark William Covington in Edina, MN, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2004 to 2022Bar chart with a peak of 11 patents in 2014.peak 112004: 6 patents20042005: 3 patents2006: 2 patents20062007: 1 patents2009: 4 patents20092010: 3 patents2013: 7 patents20132014: 11 patents2015: 8 patents20152016: 2 patents2018: 1 patents20182019: 2 patents2021: 2 patents20212022: 1 patents2022

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 53 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11251067 Pedestal lift for semiconductor processing chambers Brian T. West, Miroslav Gelo, Yan Rozenzon, Roger M. Johnson, Soundarrajan JEMBULINGAM +2 more 2022-02-15 $65,265,000
11170998 Method and apparatus for depositing a metal containing layer on a substrate Lizhong Sun, Xiaodong Yang, Vivek VINIT, Vishal AGRAWAL 2021-11-09 $68,627,000
11125836 Magnetic sensor manufacturing Qing He, Wonjoon Jung, Mark Thomas Kief, Yonghua Chen 2021-09-21 $25,851,000
10447406 Magnetic antenna structures having spatially varying profiles 2019-10-15
10446917 Deformable magnetic antennas Mark E. Bonebright, Jeffrey Howard Caton 2019-10-15
9880232 Magnetic sensor manufacturing Qing He, Wonjoon Jung, Mark Thomas Kief, Yonghua Chen 2018-01-30 $16,859,000
9378760 Data reader with tuned microstructure Qing He, Mark Thomas Kief 2016-06-28 $5,905,000
9240200 Magnetic element with crossed anisotropies Victor Boris Sapozhnikov, Wonjoon Jung, Dimitar Velikov Demitrov, Dian Song, Taras Pohkil 2016-01-19 $7,635,000
9218826 Tuned horizontally symmetric magnetic stack Qing He, Wonjoon Jung 2015-12-22 $7,634,000
9165574 Magnetic element with dual magnetic moments Qing He, Thomas Roy Boonstra 2015-10-20 $5,122,000
9147414 Recording head for heat assisted magnetic recording Michael Allen Seigler, Michael Mallary, Hua Zhou, Amit Vasant Itagi 2015-09-29 $6,964,000
9082958 Tunneling magneto-resistive sensors with buffer layers Bin Lu, Qing He, Yunhao Xu, Wei Tian 2015-07-14 $6,484,000
9036308 Varyinig morphology in magnetic sensor sub-layers Mark Thomas Kief, Wonjoon Jung 2015-05-19 $6,208,000
9034491 Low resistance area magnetic stack Vijay Karthik Sankar 2015-05-19 $6,208,000
9001474 Magnetic element with biasing structure distal the air bearing surface Dimitar V. Dimitrov, Dian Song 2015-04-07 $9,653,000
8970991 Coupling feature in a magnetoresistive trilayer lamination Dimitar V. Dimitrov, Dian Song, Wonjoon Jung, Mark Thomas Kief 2015-03-03 $8,760,000
8922956 Tunneling magneto-resistive sensors with buffer layers Bin Lu, Qing He, Yunhao Xu, Wei Tian 2014-12-30 $6,615,000
8837092 Magnetic element with biasing structure distal the air bearing surface Dimitar V. Dimitrov, Dian Song 2014-09-16 $10,494,000
8824107 Magnetic element with current constriction feature 2014-09-02 $8,897,000
8811128 Generating surface plasmons using electrical current Michael Allen Seigler 2014-08-19 $13,156,000
8780508 Magnetic element with biased side shield lamination Dimitar V. Dimitrov, Dian Song 2014-07-15 $13,662,000
8755154 Tuned angled uniaxial anisotropy in trilayer magnetic sensors Dimitar V. Dimitrov, Wonjoon Jung 2014-06-17 $28,614,000
8749924 Tuned shunt ratio for magnetic sensors Dimitar V. Dimitrov, Dian Song 2014-06-10 $37,300,000
8711526 Magnetic element with top shield coupled side shield lamination Levent Colak, Dimitar V. Dimitrov, Mark Thomas Kief, Anthony M. Mack, Dian Song 2014-04-29 $11,474,000
8705212 Magnetic element with enhanced coupling portion Jason Bryce Gadbois, Michael C. Kautzky, Dian Song, Dimitar V. Dimitrov, Qing He +3 more 2014-04-22 $15,901,000