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Thomas Roy Boonstra — 21 Patents

STSeagate Technology: 19 patents #284 of 4,722Top 7%
Cypress Semiconductor: 2 patents #948 of 1,866Top 55%
Chaska, MN: #19 of 361 inventorsTop 6%
Minnesota: #3,324 of 52,454 inventorsTop 7%
Overall (All Time): #201,324 of 4,157,543Top 5%
21 Patents All Time
Thomas Roy Boonstra has been granted 21 US patents while listed as an inventor at Seagate Technology. The first was granted in 2000 and the most recent in October 2019. Thomas Roy Boonstra ranks #201,324 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.8%). Patent records list Thomas Roy Boonstra in Chaska, MN, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2000 to 2019Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2014.peak 42000: 1 patents20002003: 1 patents2006: 1 patents20062012: 1 patents2013: 1 patents20132014: 4 patents2015: 4 patents20152016: 2 patents2017: 4 patents20172018: 1 patents2019: 1 patents2019

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–21 of 21 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10446176 Lateral spin valve reader with vertically-integrated two-dimensional semiconducting channel David A. Deen 2019-10-15 $7,675,000
9934798 Lateral spin valve reader with vertically-integrated two-dimensional semiconducting channel David A. Deen 2018-04-03 $10,046,000
9812157 Lateral spin valve reader and fabrication method thereof Wonjoon Jung, Sung-Hoon Gee, David A. Deen 2017-11-07 $14,271,000
9704515 Lateral spin valve reader with in-plane detector David A. Deen, Levent Colak 2017-07-11 $17,286,000
9672849 Multiple reader stacks disposed in close proximity Mark Thomas Kief 2017-06-06 $20,545,000
9542961 Magnetoresistive sensor with stop-layers Carolyn Pitcher Van Dorn, Eric W. Singleton, Shaun Eric McKinlay 2017-01-10 $14,461,000
9489967 Method and apparatus for aligning a laser diode on a slider Arkadi Goulakov, Jon Paul Hurley 2016-11-08 $9,116,000
9406321 Read head with multiple reader stacks Mark Thomas Kief, Victor Boris Sapozhnikov, Harry Sam Edelman 2016-08-02 $15,075,000
9218823 Read head with multiple reader stacks Mark Thomas Kief, Dimitar V. Dimitrov 2015-12-22 $7,634,000
9165574 Magnetic element with dual magnetic moments Mark William Covington, Qing He 2015-10-20 $5,122,000
9065236 Method and apparatus for aligning a laser diode on a slider Arkadi Goulakov, Jon Paul Hurley 2015-06-23 $9,123,000
9058823 Protected transducer for dead layer reduction Alexey Nazarov, Vladyslav Alexandrovich Vasko, Olle Gunnar Heinonen, Lijuan Zou, Xilin Peng +1 more 2015-06-16 $11,694,000
8896971 Aligned magnetic insulating feature 2014-11-25 $15,299,000
8786987 Biased two dimensional magnetic sensor Harry Sam Edelman 2014-07-22 $17,478,000
8771847 Reader stop-layers Carolyn Pitcher Van Dorn, Eric W. Singleton, Shaun Eric McKinlay 2014-07-08 $15,114,000
8705212 Magnetic element with enhanced coupling portion Jason Bryce Gadbois, Michael C. Kautzky, Mark William Covington, Dian Song, Dimitar V. Dimitrov +3 more 2014-04-22 $15,901,000
8400738 Magnetic element with dual magnetic moments Mark William Covington, Qing He 2013-03-19 $9,404,000
8191238 Method for forming a magnetic writer Alexandre Vasilievish Demtchouk, Michael C. Kautzky 2012-06-05 $8,263,000
7027270 Spin valve sensor for high areal density applications Dimitar V. Dimitrov, Insik Jin, Declan Macken, Robert William Lamberton, Xuefei Tang +1 more 2006-04-11 $26,010,000
6518591 Contact monitor, method of forming same and method of analizing contact-, via- and/or trench-forming processes in an integrated circuit Edward M. Shamble, David J. Brownell, David Crow 2003-02-11 $3,982,000
6121156 Contact monitor, method of forming same and method of analyzing contact-, via-and/or trench-forming processes in an integrated circuit Edward M. Shamble, David J. Brownell, David Crow 2000-09-19 $19,562,000