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Michael Thomas Johnson — 48 Patents

STSeagate Technology: 27 patents #183 of 4,701Top 4%
EMEmpi: 5 patents #10 of 56Top 20%
FOFoster-Miller: 4 patents #32 of 327Top 10%
Honeywell: 2 patents #7,628 of 16,504Top 50%
IEInnovative Concepts In Entertainment: 1 patents #4 of 12Top 35%
TBTarget Brands: 1 patents #829 of 1,696Top 50%
Minneapolis, MN: #52 of 6,114 inventorsTop 1%
Minnesota: #954 of 52,454 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #57,596 of 4,157,543Top 2%
48 Patents All Time
Michael Thomas Johnson has been granted 48 US patents while listed as an inventor at Seagate Technology. The first was granted in 1984 and the most recent in June 2025. Michael Thomas Johnson ranks #57,596 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.4%). Patent records list Michael Thomas Johnson in Minneapolis, MN, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 48 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12321978 Order assembly methods and system for multiple points of sale Brianna Johnson, Andria Rambow, Jennifer A. TSO, Kylene N. WEBSTER, Arivanandam SANKARANARAYANAN +4 more 2025-06-03
D1014121 Razor holder 2024-02-13
11691242 Methods of lapping while heating one or more features, and related sliders, row bars, and systems Edwin F. Rejda, Andrew David Habermas, Jeff O'Konski, Andrew Sherve, Dongming Liu 2023-07-04
11389924 Methods of lapping while heating one or more features, and related sliders, row bars, and systems Edwin F. Rejda, Andrew David Habermas, Jeff O'Konski, Andrew Sherve, Dongming Liu 2022-07-19 $13,950,000
11120826 Digital storage system that includes sensor and circuit to determine contact and/or distance between read/write head and data storage medium Peng Peng, Declan Macken 2021-09-14 $11,242,000
10977479 Tissue potency determination through quantitative histomorphology analysis Alex Tracy, Kristin Marks, Thomas Villani 2021-04-13
10834930 Hunting knife with skinning appliance 2020-11-17
10803886 Bond-pad sharing for head-level thermocouple Declan Macken, Todd Michael Lammers, Kent Edward Bodurtha 2020-10-13 $7,528,000
10517307 Hunting knife with skinning appliance 2019-12-31
9940959 Non-contact laser-induced protrusion measurement apparatus and method Steven Douglas Granz 2018-04-10 $21,506,000
9916847 Magnetic recording device capable of detecting contamination buildup at a head-disk interface Steven Douglas Granz, Patrick Carl Fletcher, Manuel Charles Anaya-Dufresne, Peng Peng 2018-03-13 $15,063,000
9858953 Method of removing head contamination during contact detection 2018-01-02 $15,362,000
9685182 Non-contact laser-induced protrusion measurement apparatus and method Steven Douglas Granz 2017-06-20 $12,119,000
9679598 Writer core incorporating thermal sensor having a temperature coefficient of resistance Peng Peng, Declan Macken, Zheying Guo 2017-06-13 $9,118,000
9484052 Clearance adjustment for a head disk interface Manual Anaya-Dufresne 2016-11-01 $15,128,000
9454986 Laser optical power monitoring using thermal sensor of a head transducer Manuel Charles Anaya-Dufresne, Zoran Jandric 2016-09-27 $20,828,000
9390741 Head transducer with multiple resistance temperature sensors for head-medium spacing and contact detection Dongming Liu, Huazhou Lou, Declan Macken, Timothy W. Stoebe, James Gary Wessel +1 more 2016-07-12
9202499 Contact detection using laser modulation James Dillon Kiely, Karl H. Scheppers, Declan Macken 2015-12-01 $2,829,000
9159349 Writer core incorporating thermal sensor having a temperature coefficient of resistance Peng Peng, Declan Macken, Zheying Guo 2015-10-13 $9,003,000
9153276 Laser optical power monitoring using thermal sensor of a head transducer Manuel Charles Anaya-Dufresne, Zoran Jandric 2015-10-06 $6,400,000
9135938 Contact detection Dongming Liu, Lin Zhou, Adam Karl Himes, Lee C. Knippenberg 2015-09-15 $14,618,000
9082440 Using first and second resistive sensor bias levels to detect head-to-disk contact and/or clearance Manuel Charles Anaya Dufresne, Xuan Zheng, Dongming Liu 2015-07-14 $6,484,000
9042050 Head transducer with multiple resistance temperature sensors for head-medium spacing and contact detection Dongming Liu, Huazhou Lou, Declan Macken, Timothy W. Stoebe, James Gary Wessel +1 more 2015-05-26 $8,114,000
9036290 Head transducer with multiple resistance temperature sensors for head-medium spacing and contact detection Dongming Liu, Huazhou Lou, Declan Macken, Timothy W. Stoebe, James Gary Wessel +1 more 2015-05-19 $6,208,000
8995076 Head-medium contact detection using electromagnetic attraction Daniel W. Olson, David J. Ellison 2015-03-31 $7,418,000