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STSeagate Technology: 135 patents #7 of 4,626Top 1%
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136 Patents All Time

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Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
9728208 Methods of forming materials for at least a portion of a NFT and NFTs formed using the same Sarbeswar Sahoo, Tong Zhao 2017-08-08
9721593 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 2017-08-01
9691423 Devices including at least one adhesion layer and methods of forming adhesion layers Xiaoyue Huang 2017-06-27
9672848 Multipiece near field transducers (NFTS) Martin Blaber, Tong Zhao, Justin Brons 2017-06-06
9666220 Devices including a near field transducer and at least one associated adhesion layer Vijay Karthik Sankar, Tong Zhao, Yongjun Zhao, Hui Brickner, Sarbeswar Sahoo 2017-05-30
9620152 Near field transducers (NFTS) and methods of making Mark Ostrowski, David Michael Grundman, Martin Blaber 2017-04-11
9601135 Interlayer for device including NFT and cladding layers Tong Zhao, Michael Allen Seigler, Yongjun Zhao, Jay Jayashankar, Xiaoyue Huang 2017-03-21
9548076 Magnetic devices with overcoats Xiaoyue Huang, Seung-Yeul Yang, Steve Riemer 2017-01-17
9502070 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 2016-11-22
9502054 Devices including at least one intermixing layer Yuhang Cheng, Tong Zhao, Ed F. Rejda, Kurt W. Wierman, Scott Franzen +1 more 2016-11-22
9431036 Heat-sinks for optical near-field transducers William Vavra, Xuhui Jin, Xiaoyue Huang, Kaizhong Gao 2016-08-30
9336800 Near-field transducer peg encapsulation James Gary Wessel, Sarbeswar Sahoo 2016-05-10
9311944 Recording head with piezoelectric contact sensor David J. Ellison, Jorge Vicente Hanchi 2016-04-12
9304252 Layered optical waveguide and near field transducer Xiaoyue Huang, Tong Zhao 2016-04-05
9305575 Heat assisted magnetic recording heads having bilayer heat sinks Tong Zhao, Ibro Tabakovic, Venkatram Venkatasamy, Jie Gong 2016-04-05
9297959 Optical articles and methods of making same Xiaoyue Huang, Lijuan Zou, Yongjun Zhao 2016-03-29
9286931 Materials for near field transducers and near field transducers containing same Sethuraman Jayashankar 2016-03-15
9281003 Devices including near field transducer and adhesion layers Tong Zhao, Meng Zhu, Xiaoyue Huang 2016-03-08
9281002 Materials for near field transducers and near field transducers containing same Justin Brons, Tong Zhao, Sethuraman Jayashankar, Steve Riemer 2016-03-08
9269380 Devices including a near field transducer (NFT), at least one cladding layer and interlayer there between Justin Brons, Tong Zhao, Xiaoyue Huang 2016-02-23
9263074 Devices including at least one adhesion layer Xiaoyue Huang 2016-02-16
9251837 HAMR NFT materials with improved thermal stability Meng Zhu, Tong Zhao, Steven C. Riemer 2016-02-02
9251830 Waveguide cladding layer with transparent heat sink for heat-assisted magnetic recording device John Charles Duda, Seung-Yeul Yang, Manuel Charles Anaya-Dufresne, Scott Franzen, Xiaoyue Huang 2016-02-02
9251820 Near field transducer and heat sink design for heat assisted magnetic recording Tong Zhao, John Charles Duda 2016-02-02
9245573 Methods of forming materials for at least a portion of a NFT and NFTs formed using the same Sarbeswar Sahoo, Tong Zhao 2016-01-26