Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Sept 30, 2025
MK

Michael C. Kautzky

STSeagate Technology: 135 patents #7 of 4,626Top 1%
Eagan, MN: #1 of 891 inventorsTop 1%
Minnesota: #94 of 52,454 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #7,597 of 4,157,543Top 1%
136 Patents All Time

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 26–50 of 136 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
10482914 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 2019-11-19
10431244 Devices including a near field transducer (NFT) including peg and disc from different materials Martin Blaber, Tong Zhao, Justin Brons, John Charles Duda, Yuhang Cheng +1 more 2019-10-01
10311906 Near field transducers (NFTS) including barrier layer and methods of forming Martin Blaber, Jie Gong, Dimitar V. Dimitrov, Steven C. Riemer, Tong Zhao +1 more 2019-06-04
10236020 NFT with mechanically robust materials Martin Blaber, Michael Allen Seigler 2019-03-19
10229704 Multipiece near field transducers (NFTS) Martin Blaber, Tong Zhao, Justin Brons 2019-03-12
10217482 Devices including a near field transducer and at least one associated adhesion layer Vijay Karthik Sankar, Tong Zhao, Yongjun Zhao, Hui Brickner, Sarbeswar Sahoo 2019-02-26
10190210 Near-field transducer having at least one secondary atom Tong Zhao, Sarbeswar Sahoo, Justin Brons, Jie Gong, Yuhang Cheng 2019-01-29
10134436 Materials for near field transducers and near field transducers containing same Sethuraman Jayashankar 2018-11-20
10109303 Devices including a near field transducer (NFT), at least one cladding layer and interlayer there between Justin Brons, Tong Zhao, Xiaoyue Huang 2018-10-23
10068594 Magnetic devices with overcoats Xiaoyue Huang, Seung-Yeul Yang, Steve Riemer 2018-09-04
10062401 Near field transducers (NFTS) including a protective layer and methods of forming Tong Zhao, Justin Brons 2018-08-28
10037771 Near field transducer (NFT) including peg and disc of different materials Martin Blaber, Michael Allen Seigler, Tong Zhao, Justin Brons, John Charles Duda +1 more 2018-07-31
10014011 Methods of forming materials for at least a portion of a NFT and NFTs formed using the same Sarbeswar Sahoo, Tong Zhao 2018-07-03
9972346 NFT with mechanically robust materials Martin Blaber, Michael Allen Seigler 2018-05-15
9928859 Near field transducers (NFTS) and methods of making Mark Ostrowski, David Michael Grundman, Martin Blaber 2018-03-27
9870793 Materials for near field transducers and near field transducers containing same Sethuraman Jayashankar 2018-01-16
9865283 Devices including a near field transducer (NFT) including peg and disc from different materials Martin Blaber, Tong Zhao, Justin Brons, John Charles Duda, Yuhang Cheng +1 more 2018-01-09
9824709 Near field transducers (NFTS) including barrier layer and methods of forming Martin Blaber, Jie Gong, Dimitar V. Dimitrov, Steve Riemer, Tong Zhao +1 more 2017-11-21
9822444 Near-field transducer having secondary atom higher concentration at bottom of the peg Tong Zhao, Sarbeswar Sahoo, Justin Brons, Jie Gong, Yuhang Cheng 2017-11-21
9805757 HAMR NFT materials with improved thermal stability Tong Zhao, William Albert Challener, Michael Allen Seigler 2017-10-31
9799353 Devices including at least one adhesion layer and methods of forming adhesion layers Yuhang Cheng, Tong Zhao, Ed F. Rejda, Kurt W. Wierman, Scott Franzen +3 more 2017-10-24
9767832 Devices including a near field transducer (NFT), at least one cladding layer and interlayer there between Justin Brons, Tong Zhao, Xiaoyue Huang 2017-09-19
9747939 Devices including near field transducer and adhesion layer Tong Zhao, Meng Zhu, Xiaoyue Huang 2017-08-29
9741381 Near field transducers (NFTs) including a protective layer and methods of forming Tong Zhao, Justin Brons 2017-08-22
9728209 Thermally robust near-field transducer peg Weibin Chen, Martin Blaber, Tong Zhao, John Charles Duda 2017-08-08