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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

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Showing 101–125 of 136 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
8842391 Recording head including a near field transducer Jie Zou, Kaizhong Gao, William Albert Challener, Mark Ostrowski, Venkateswara Rao Inturi +1 more 2014-09-23
8824100 Overcoats that include magnetic materials Brian William Karr, Joel William Hoehn, Declan Macken, Christopher L. Platt, Mei-Ling Wu +1 more 2014-09-02
8804468 Layered near-field transducer Tong Zhao, Amit Vasant Itagi, Michael Allen Seigler 2014-08-12
8705212 Magnetic element with enhanced coupling portion Jason Bryce Gadbois, Mark William Covington, Dian Song, Dimitar V. Dimitrov, Qing He +3 more 2014-04-22
8699183 Write pole and shield with different taper angles Sarbeswar Sahoo, Hui Brickner, David Christopher Seets, Mark Thomas Kief 2014-04-15
8681595 Layered optical waveguide and near field transducer Xiaoyue Huang, Tong Zhao 2014-03-25
8675315 Magnetic sensor with anisotropic liner Werner Scholz, Sarbeswar Sahoo, Mark Thomas Kief, James Gary Wessel 2014-03-18
8670215 Recording head for heat assisted magnetic recording with diffusion barrier surrounding a near field transducer Jie Zou, Kaizhong Gao, William Albert Challener, Mark Ostrowski, Venkateswara Rao Inturi +1 more 2014-03-11
8644124 Optical devices including assist layers Xiaoyue Huang 2014-02-04
8514673 Layered near-field transducer Tong Zhao, Amit Vasant Itagi, Michael Allen Seigler 2013-08-20
8477454 Recording head for heat assisted magnetic recording with diffusion barrier surrounding a near field transducer Jie Zou, Kaizhong Gao, William Albert Challener, Mark Ostrowski, Venkateswara Rao Inturi +1 more 2013-07-02
8477572 Heat assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) heads including components made of nickel alloys Sarbeswar Sahoo, Edwin F. Rejda, Ibro Tabakovic, Steven C. Riemer 2013-07-02
8477456 Commonly-poled piezoelectric device Charles Everett Hawkinson, Daniel Paul Burbank, John S. Wright 2013-07-02
8437105 Magnetic sensor with composite magnetic shield Vladyslav Alexandrovich Vas'ko, Venkateswara Rao Inturi, Zhihong Lu, Mark Thomas Kief, Yifan Zhang 2013-05-07
8427925 HAMR NFT materials with improved thermal stability Tong Zhao, William Albert Challener, Michael Allen Seigler 2013-04-23
8416538 Shaped shield for a magnetoresistive head Werner Scholz, Meng Zhu, Venkateswara Rao Inturi 2013-04-09
8400902 Optical waveguide clad material Xiaoyue Huang, Amit Vasant Itagi, William Albert Challener, Michael Allen Seigler 2013-03-19
8339740 Recording head for heat assisted magnetic recording with diffusion barrier surrounding a near field transducer Jie Zou, Kaizhong Gao, William Albert Challener, Mark Ostrowski, Venkateswara Rao Inturi +1 more 2012-12-25
8279557 Commonly-poled piezoelectric device Charles Everett Hawkinson, Daniel Paul Burbank, John S. Wright 2012-10-02
8259540 Heat assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) heads including components made of nickel alloys Sarbeswar Sahoo, Edwin F. Rejda, Ibro Tabakovic, Steven C. Riemer 2012-09-04
8191238 Method for forming a magnetic writer Alexandre Vasilievish Demtchouk, Thomas Roy Boonstra 2012-06-05
8149657 Optical waveguide clad material Xiaoyue Huang, Amit Vasant Itagi, William Albert Challener, Michael Allen Seigler 2012-04-03
7944009 Magnetoresistive device having specular sidewall layers Song S. Xue, Paul E. Anderson, Xuefei Tang, Patrick J. Ryan 2011-05-17
7872323 Magnetoresistive device having specular sidewall layers Song S. Xue, Paul E. Anderson, Xuefei Tang, Patrick J. Ryan 2011-01-18
7808744 Apparatus including a dielectric mirror and method of reflecting radiation away from a portion of an apparatus Daniel Paul Burbank, Michael Krosch 2010-10-05