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STSeagate Technology: 135 patents #7 of 4,626Top 1%
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Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
12421617 Electrodeposited materials and related methods Jie Gong, Steven C. Riemer, Wei Tian 2025-09-23
12249357 Single-grain near-field transducer and process for forming same Tong Zhao, Li Wan, Xiaolu Kou 2025-03-11
12057147 Thin-film crystalline structure with surfaces having selected plane orientations Tong Zhao, Li Wan 2024-08-06
11935567 Single-grain near-field transducer and process for forming same Tong Zhao, Li Wan, Xiaolu Kou 2024-03-19
11913130 Electrodeposition of high damping magnetic alloys Jie Gong, Steven C. Riemer, John A. Rice, Hilton Erskine, Xuelian Xu 2024-02-27
11875826 Heat-assisted magnetic recording head with a bilayer adhesion structure Venkateswara Rao Inturi, Xiaoyue Huang, Lance Nevala, Tong Zhao 2024-01-16
11866841 Electrodeposited materials and related methods Jie Gong, Steven C. Riemer, Wei Tian 2024-01-09
11798583 Electrodeposition of thermally stable alloys Jie Gong, Steven C. Riemer, John A. Rice 2023-10-24
11798581 Heat-assisted magnetic recording head with nanoparticles Venkateswara Rao Inturi, Tong Zhao 2023-10-24
11664051 Heat-assisted recording head having mechanically robust subwavelength mirror with plasmonic liner Nan Zhou, Michael Allen Seigler, Yongjun Zhao, Huaqing Yin, Li Wan 2023-05-30
11587581 Transfer-printed near-field transducer and heat sink Mark Anthony Gubbins, Roger L. Hipwell, Jr., Marcus B. Mooney, Mark Ostrowski, Tong Zhao +4 more 2023-02-21
11423928 Processing for forming single-grain near-field transducer Tong Zhao, Li Wan, Xiaolu Kou 2022-08-23
11377749 Electrodeposition of high damping magnetic alloys Jie Gong, Steven C. Riemer, John A. Rice, Hilton Erskine, Xuelian Xu 2022-07-05
11183215 Thin-film crystalline structure with surfaces having selected plane orientations Tong Zhao, Li Wan 2021-11-23
11162169 Near-field transducer having secondary atom higher concentration at bottom of the peg Tong Zhao, Sarbeswar Sahoo, Justin Brons, Jie Gong, Yuhang Cheng 2021-11-02
11164600 Methods of forming materials Tong Zhao, Lance Nevala 2021-11-02
11152020 Electrodeposition of thermally stable alloys Jie Gong, Steven C. Riemer, John A. Rice 2021-10-19
11127423 Devices including at least one adhesion layer and methods of forming adhesion layers Xiaoyue Huang 2021-09-21
11107499 Materials for near field transducers and near field transducers containing same Yuhang Cheng, Tong Zhao, Ed F. Rejda, Kurt W. Wierman, Scott Franzen +4 more 2021-08-31
10984821 Transfer-printed near-field transducer and heat sink Mark Anthony Gubbins, Roger L. Hipwell, Jr., Marcus B. Mooney, Mark Ostrowski, Tong Zhao +4 more 2021-04-20
10964347 Materials for near field transducers, near field tranducers containing same, and methods of forming Yuhang Cheng, Tong Zhao, Ed F. Rejda, Kurt W. Wierman, Scott Franzen +6 more 2021-03-30
10699732 Devices including a diffusion barrier layer Yuhang Cheng, Scott Franzen, Michael Allen Seigler, James Gary Wessel, Tong Zhao +3 more 2020-06-30
10519540 Near field transducer having secondary atom higher concentration at bottom of the peg Tong Zhao, Sarbeswar Sahoo, Justin Brons, Jie Gong, Yuhang Cheng 2019-12-31
10510365 NFT with mechanically robust materials Martin Blaber, Michael Allen Seigler 2019-12-17
10510364 Devices including a near field transducer (NFT) with nanoparticles Tong Zhao, Justin Brons, Steven C. Riemer, Xiaoyue Huang, Sarbeswar Sahoo 2019-12-17