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

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Showing 76–100 of 136 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
9224416 Near field transducers including nitride materials Tong Zhao, Sarbeswar Sahoo, Amit Vasant Itagi 2015-12-29
9218829 Devices including at least one intermixing layer Yuhang Cheng, Tong Zhao, Ed F. Rejda, Kurt W. Wierman, Scott Franzen +1 more 2015-12-22
9202489 Laser mounted on edge of a slider Nils Jan Gokemeijer, Edward Charles Gage, Roger L. Hipwell, Jr., Scott Eugene Olson 2015-12-01
9183857 Magnetic devices having shields including a nickel alloy Meng Zhu 2015-11-10
9153277 Near field transducer having sacrificial structure Tong Zhao, Xiaoyue Huang, Hui Brickner, Yi-Kuei Ryan Wu 2015-10-06
9142226 Thin film with tuned grain size Venkateswara Rao Inturi, Wei Tian, Huaqing Yin, Mark Thomas Kief, Meng Zhu +1 more 2015-09-22
9142229 Heat assisted magnetic recording head having thermal sensor with high-TCR transparent conducting oxide Sarbeswar Sahoo 2015-09-22
9129620 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 2015-09-08
9129626 Near-field transducer with rounded or obtuse corners James Gary Wessel, Mark Ostrowski, Tae-Woo Lee 2015-09-08
9123365 Reader structure Venkateswara Rao Inturi 2015-09-01
9099117 Near-field transducer peg encapsulation James Gary Wessel, Sarbeswar Sahoo 2015-08-04
9082421 Reader structure Venkateswara Rao Inturi 2015-07-14
9064515 Near field transducer and heat sink design for heat assisted magnetic recording Tong Zhao, John Charles Duda 2015-06-23
9053737 Heat assisted magnetic recording devices Xiaoyue Huang, Zoran Jandric 2015-06-09
9013831 Write pole fabricated using a carbon hard mask and method of making 2015-04-21
8976634 Devices including at least one intermixing layer Yuhang Cheng, Tong Zhao, Ed F. Rejda, Kurt W. Wierman, Scott Franzen +1 more 2015-03-10
8971161 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 2015-03-03
8945731 Interlayer for device including NFT and cladding layers Tong Zhao, Michael Allen Seigler, Yongjun Zhao, Jay Jayashankar, Xiaoyue Huang 2015-02-03
8945405 Magnetic sensor with composite magnetic shield Vladyslav Alexandrovich Vas'ko, Venkateswara Rao Inturi, Zhihong Lu, Mark Thomas Kief, Yifan Zhang 2015-02-03
8937790 Commonly-poled piezoelectric device Charles Everett Hawkinson, Daniel Paul Burbank, John S. Wright 2015-01-20
8934198 Recording head including NFT and heatsink Jie Zou, Kaizhong Gao, William Albert Challener, Mark Ostrowski, Vankateswara Rao Inturi +1 more 2015-01-13
8917484 Magnetoresistive element with nano-crystalline shield Jie Gong, Ibro Tabakovic, Steve Riemer 2014-12-23
8902719 Heat assisted magnetic recording heads having bilayer heat sinks Tong Zhao, Ibro Tabakovic, Venkatram Venkatasamy, Jie Gong 2014-12-02
8885448 Encapsulated laser diode for heat-assisted magnetic recording Seung-Yeul Yang, Xiaoyue Huang 2014-11-11
8861316 Write pole for recording head Huaqing Yin, Jianhua Xue, Venkateswara Rao Inturi, Mark Thomas Kief 2014-10-14