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Ralph William Cross — 18 Patents

STSeagate Technology: 11 patents #538 of 4,701Top 15%
MAMaxtor: 7 patents #38 of 656Top 6%
Lyons, CO: #20 of 145 inventorsTop 15%
Colorado: #2,271 of 40,980 inventorsTop 6%
Overall (All Time): #245,716 of 4,157,543Top 6%
18 Patents All Time
Ralph William Cross has been granted 18 US patents while listed as an inventor at Seagate Technology. The first was granted in 2003 and the most recent in October 2019. Ralph William Cross ranks #245,716 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.9%). Patent records list Ralph William Cross in Lyons, CO, US.

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Showing 1–18 of 18 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10446184 Write current switching in a data storage device using an effective footprint of a write pole Xiong Liu, Quan Li 2019-10-15 $7,675,000
10210887 Chirped current profile with undershoot feature Kirill Rivkin, Mourad Benakli, Todd Michael Lammers 2019-02-19 $13,065,000
10210891 Dual writer head design utilizing two writers of different sizes for writing interlaced data tracks Wei Tian, Jianhua Xue, Wenzhong Zhu, Javier Guzman 2019-02-19 $13,065,000
10192580 Write current switching in a data storage device using an effective footprint of a write pole Xiong Liu, Quan Li 2019-01-29 $8,206,000
9978401 Chirped current profile with undershoot feature Kirill Rivkin, Mourad Benakli, Todd Michael Lammers 2018-05-22 $11,389,000
9905251 Write current switching in a data storage device Xiong Liu, Michael Montemorra, Todd Michael Lammers, Quan Li, Beng Theam Ko +2 more 2018-02-27 $15,681,000
9508370 Repeated runout (RRO) compensation for alternating tracks in an interlaced magnetic recording system Wenzhong Zhu, Peter S. Harllee, Kenneth A. Haapala, Edward Charles Gage 2016-11-29 $10,548,000
9123384 Requirement relaxation for multiple readers in presence of large skew angle range Mehmet Fatih Erden, Scott Warmka, Barmeshwar Vikramaditya 2015-09-01 $4,273,000
8988802 Requirement relaxation for multiple readers in presence of large skew angle range Mehmet Fatih Erden, Scott Warmka, Barmeshwar Vikramaditya 2015-03-24 $14,006,000
8310782 Dedicated ID-OD writer with beveled pole tips and method of manufacture Dian Song, Huaqing Yin 2012-11-13 $17,236,000
7729092 Shielded pole writer under reader Michael Mallary 2010-06-01 $9,558,000
7469468 Methods of slider-level reader isolation measurement technique for advanced GMR heads Chris Broussalian 2008-12-30
7151651 Slider-level reader isolation measurement technique for advanced GMR heads Chris Broussalian 2006-12-19
7042683 Slider-level reader isolation measurement technique for advanced GMR heads Chris Broussalian 2006-05-09 $9,825,000
6998061 In-situ exchange biased GMR head for ultra-high density recording with pinning layer-only anneal 2006-02-14 $13,035,000
6894878 Differential GMR head using anti-parallel pinned layers 2005-05-17 $9,907,000
6649960 Synthetic free layer structure for MRAM devices 2003-11-18 $13,088,000
6603617 Method and apparatus for providing adaptive drive-level compensation for amplitude and BER loss due to media thermal decay 2003-08-05 $46,743,000