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Michael Minor — 12 Patents

STSeagate Technology: 8 patents #788 of 4,701Top 20%
PPParamount Pictures: 2 patents #15 of 28Top 55%
Los Angeles, CA: #1,009 of 12,377 inventorsTop 9%
California: #51,404 of 386,348 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #396,045 of 4,157,543Top 10%
12 Patents All Time
Michael Minor has been granted 12 US patents while listed as an inventor at Seagate Technology. The first was granted in 1984 and the most recent in September 2009. Michael Minor ranks #396,045 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 9.5%). Patent records list Michael Minor in Los Angeles, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–12 of 12 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7595959 Recording heads including a magnetically damped write pole and recording systems including such heads Mark William Covington, Ganping Ju, Werner Scholz 2009-09-29 $27,037,000
7130165 Side shielded current in plane spin-valve Declan Macken, Steven B. Slade, David J. Larson, Daniel J. Dummer 2006-10-31 $13,081,000
6959483 Method of making a recording head Billy W. Crue, Jr., Richard Joseph Bojko 2005-11-01 $7,490,000
6822829 Perpendicular magnetic recording head with a multilayered main write pole Timothy J. Klemmer 2004-11-23 $7,333,000
6809901 Low moment material for magnetic recording head write pole 2004-10-26 $10,896,000
6807032 Magnetic read head wherein the shields are used as electrical leads and have a minimized anisotropic magneto-resistance effect Michael Allen Seigler, Isabel G. Trindade, Petrus Antonius Van Der Heijden, Mark William Covington, Rene' Johannes Marinus van de Veerdonk +2 more 2004-10-19 $15,698,000
6795273 Magnetic recording head with high saturation magnetization write pole having alternating interface-defining Fe/Co layers Timothy J. Klemmer, Michael Allen Seigler, Arthur J. Freeman 2004-09-21
6771464 Perpendicular magnetic recording head with a laminated main write pole 2004-08-03 $6,812,000
6687085 Perpendicular write head with high magnetization pole material and method of fabricating the write head Robert Earl Rottmayer, Michael Allen Seigler, Andrew Robert Eckert, Mark William Covington 2004-02-03 $8,329,000
5191943 Three-point hitch attached grader with adjustable blades Bernie B. Bierman 1993-03-09
D277297 Container for desk top materials or similar articles Joseph R. Jennings 1985-01-22
D272839 Toy spaceship Joseph R. Jennings 1984-02-28