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Steven S. Eckerd — 11 Patents

STSeagate Technology: 11 patents #559 of 4,701Top 15%
Oklahoma City, OK: #73 of 1,463 inventorsTop 5%
Oklahoma: #932 of 12,736 inventorsTop 8%
Overall (All Time): #435,149 of 4,157,543Top 15%
11 Patents All Time
Steven S. Eckerd has been granted 11 US patents while listed as an inventor at Seagate Technology. The first was granted in 1993 and the most recent in August 2001. Steven S. Eckerd ranks #435,149 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 10.5%). Patent records list Steven S. Eckerd in Oklahoma City, OK, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–11 of 11 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
6270375 Low inductance flex-to-PCB spring connector for a disc drive Alvin E. Cox, Housan Dakroub 2001-08-07
6172844 Double grooved spacer for a disc drive Erming Luo, John D. Stricklin 2001-01-09
6168459 Flex support and seal apparatus for a disc drive Alvin E. Cox, Housan Dakroub 2001-01-02
6129579 Low inductance flex-to-PCB spring connector for a disc drive Alvin E. Cox, Housan Dakroub 2000-10-10 $26,580,000
5995325 Transducer signal wire termination Mark Maggio, Tom Metzner, Loren Skarky, Yoshiki Midori, Ray-Chung Yu +1 more 1999-11-30 $26,525,000
5907453 Enhanced convective voice coil cooling to improve the operational performance of a disc drive Roy L. Wood, Phillip R. Ridenour, Carl Fred Adams 1999-05-25 $37,203,000
5859358 Measuring stiction and friction between the heads and discs of a hard disc drive Roy L. Wood 1999-01-12 $24,754,000
5644452 Apparatus connecting a flexible circuit to an actuator arm of a disc drive Alvin E. Cox, David S. Allsup, Mark Maggio 1997-07-01 $51,519,000
5555619 Method of electrically connecting a transducer to a preamplifier Mark Maggio, Tom Metzner, Loren Skarky, Yoshiki Midori, Cal E. Hardie +1 more 1996-09-17 $15,847,000
5498840 Transducer signal terminator Mark Maggio, David S. Allsup, Alvin E. Cox, Tom Metzner, Loren Skarky 1996-03-12 $55,474,000
5262911 Apparatus and method for mounting transducer heads in a hard disk drive Michael A. Cain 1993-11-16 $4,471,000