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Thomas William Clinton — 29 Patents

STSeagate Technology: 21 patents #250 of 4,701Top 6%
HBHgst Netherlands, B.V.: 4 patents #198 of 972Top 25%
UFUS Air Force: 2 patents #3,485 of 16,312Top 25%
NWNthdegree Technologies Worldwide: 1 patents #40 of 49Top 85%
WTWestern Digital Technologies: 1 patents #1,874 of 3,180Top 60%
Danville, CA: #72 of 1,210 inventorsTop 6%
California: #18,137 of 386,348 inventorsTop 5%
Overall (All Time): #127,851 of 4,157,543Top 4%
29 Patents All Time
Thomas William Clinton has been granted 29 US patents while listed as an inventor at Seagate Technology. The first was granted in 1999 and the most recent in April 2023. Thomas William Clinton ranks #127,851 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.1%). Patent records list Thomas William Clinton in Danville, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 29 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11626137 Heat assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) write head containing a near-field transducer with diffusion barrier and method of making thereof Wen Fan 2023-04-11 $19,743,000
9311935 Method and apparatus for magnetic recording head having a waveguide Kanaiyalal C. Patel, Vijay Prakash Singh Rawat, Sue Siyang Zhang 2016-04-12
9159339 Wire and wire lead designs for a wire-assisted magnetic write device Werner Scholz, Sharat Batra, Mark Thomas Kief, Eric S. Linville, Wei Peng +1 more 2015-10-13 $9,003,000
9147415 HAMR head spot-size converters with secondary index confinement Barry Cushing Stipe, Juraj Topolancik 2015-09-29
9048031 Method of and printable compositions for manufacturing a multilayer carbon nanotube capacitor William Johnstone Ray, Neil O. Shotton, Vera N. Lockett, Theodore I. Kamins, Mark David Lowenthal 2015-06-02
8908482 Sacrificial protection layer for preventing ion mill damage to HAMR optical components Hamid Balamane, Jui-Lung Li, Juraj Topolancik 2014-12-09
8854930 Slider embedded photodetector for optical power monitoring in heat assisted magnetic recording Takuya Matsumoto, Shen Ren, Erhard Schreck, Barry Cushing Stipe 2014-10-07
8526224 Compound cell spin-torque magnetic random access memory Werner Scholz 2013-09-03 $11,168,000
8405932 HAMR recording head having a sloped wall pole Michael Allen Seigler, Sharat Batra, Robert Earl Rottmayer, Hua Zhou, Jie Gong 2013-03-26 $17,075,000
8325513 Compound cell spin-torque magnetic random access memory Werner Scholz 2012-12-04 $9,193,000
8289650 HAMR recording head having a sloped wall pole Michael Allen Seigler, Sharat Batra, Robert Earl Rottmayer, Hua Zhou, Jie Gong 2012-10-16 $4,778,000
8199565 Magnetic random access memory with dual spin torque reference layers Michael Allen Seigler 2012-06-12 $7,199,000
8144425 Magnetic recording head with compact yoke Werner Scholz 2012-03-27 $36,387,000
8116124 Compound cell spin-torque magnetic random access memory Werner Scholz 2012-02-14 $18,185,000
8023317 Magnetic random access memory with dual spin torque reference layers Michael Allen Seigler 2011-09-20 $5,379,000
7936597 Multilevel magnetic storage device Michael Allen Seigler, Mark W. Convington, Werner Scholz 2011-05-03 $4,616,000
7898849 Compound cell spin-torque magnetic random access memory Werner Scholz 2011-03-01 $6,164,000
7859892 Magnetic random access memory with dual spin torque reference layers Michael Allen Seigler 2010-12-28 $12,413,000
7818760 Data writing with plasmon resonator Michael Allen Seigler, Mark William Covington, Christophe Daniel Mihalcea 2010-10-19 $12,484,000
7593184 Rotating write field generated by circulating domain walls in a magnetic ring: a DC-driven high-frequency oscillator Werner Scholz 2009-09-22 $22,925,000
7500255 Data writing with plasmon resonator Michael Allen Seigler, Mark William Covington, Christophe Daniel Mihalcea 2009-03-03 $28,879,000
7212367 Ampere wire write head with confined magnetic fields Petrus Antonius Van Der Heijden, Michael Allen Seigler, Mark William Covington, Werner Scholz, Sharat Batra 2007-05-01 $17,021,000
7149055 Inductive write head driven only by an ampere wire Petrus Antonius Van Der Heijden, Michael Allen Seigler, Jonathan Hannay 2006-12-12 $16,931,000
6985318 Method and apparatus for precessional switching of the magnetization of storage medium using a transverse write field Thomas M. Crawford 2006-01-10 $9,636,000
6917493 Ampere head with perpendicular magnetic field Jonathan Hannay, Michael Allen Seigler 2005-07-12 $13,796,000