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Tim Rausch — 85 Patents

STSeagate Technology: 81 patents #23 of 4,722Top 1%
CUCarnegie Mellon University: 2 patents #334 of 1,507Top 25%
SLSae Magnetics (Hong Kong) Limited: 2 patents #2 of 34Top 6%
Sap Se: 1 patents #2,890 of 6,322Top 50%
Amazon: 1 patents #10,717 of 19,158Top 60%
Overall (All Time): #20,018 of 4,157,543Top 1%
85 Patents All Time
Tim Rausch has been granted 85 US patents while listed as an inventor at Seagate Technology. The first was granted in 2003 and the most recent in September 2025. Tim Rausch ranks #20,018 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.48%). Patent records list Tim Rausch in Karlsruhe, WA, DE.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2003 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 23 patents in 2017.peak 232003: 1 patents20032004: 1 patents2006: 2 patents2007: 2 patents20072009: 3 patents2010: 2 patents2011: 1 patents20112012: 2 patents2013: 1 patents2014: 3 patents20142015: 6 patents2016: 8 patents2017: 23 patents20172018: 7 patents2019: 8 patents2020: 2 patents20202021: 3 patents2022: 3 patents2023: 3 patents20232024: 2 patents2025: 2 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 85 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12425227 Quantum safe digital signature service Anitha Naduvath, Bino Rose Philip, Anselme Tueno, Andrey Hoursanov, David Elijah Alpern Boehm +2 more 2025-09-23
12373108 Optimized host-side storage queues Andrew Kent Warfield, Martine B. Wedlake, Andrew C. Schleit, Joshua John Buergel 2025-07-29
11990184 DNA backbone editing for DNA data storage Gemma Mendonsa, Riyan Alex Mendonsa 2024-05-21 $67,126,000
11939570 Microfluidic lab-on-a-chip for gene synthesis Walter R. Eppler, Gemma Mendonsa 2024-03-26 $143,008,000
11686705 Gel electrophoresis for DNA purification Gemma Mendonsa, Riyan Alex Mendonsa 2023-06-27 $18,979,000
11654436 Microwave heating device for lab on a chip Edward Charles Gage, Walter R. Eppler, Gemma Mendonsa 2023-05-23 $30,833,000
11643647 Methods of gene assembly and their use in DNA data storage Walter R. Eppler, Gemma Mendonsa 2023-05-09 $11,089,000
11495249 Method and apparatus for magnetically recording data with three or more states per unit of data Ian J. Gilbert, Peng Peng, Todd Michael Lammers 2022-11-08 $9,841,000
11341990 Dual wire assisted magnetic recording Zengyuan Liu, Edward Charles Gage, Stephanie Hernandez 2022-05-24 $15,064,000
11270733 Method and apparatus for modulating a laser power signal during heat-assisted magnetic recording Ian J. Gilbert, Peng Peng, Jan-Ulrich Thiele 2022-03-08 $35,055,000
11066661 Methods of gene assembly and their use in DNA data storage Walter R. Eppler, Gemma Mendonsa 2021-07-20 $37,280,000
11049515 Dual wire assisted magnetic recording Zengyuan Liu, Edward Charles Gage, Stephanie Hernandez 2021-06-29 $162,268,000
11037597 Heat-assisted magnetic recording apparatus that modulates laser power to reduce differences between track widths of recorded marks Ian J. Gilbert, Peng Peng, Jan-Ulrich Thiele 2021-06-15 $33,301,000
10770106 System and method using on-ramp heating to detect laser mode hopping in heat assisted recording Drew Michael Mader, Josh Ward Christensen 2020-09-08 $11,680,000
10706876 Wire assisted magnetic recording with an alternating current driving the wire Edward Charles Gage, Zengyuan Liu 2020-07-07 $9,378,000
10446186 Data storage cartridge with magnetic head-disc interface (HDI) Riyan Alex Mendonsa, Jason Bryce Gadbois, Brett R. Herdendorf, Krishnan Subramanian 2019-10-15 $7,675,000
10395683 Procedure for setting laser and heater power in HAMR device Tatsuya Shimizu, Wai Yuen Anthony Lai, Kai Chiu Cheung 2019-08-27 $10,264,000
10381036 Laser bias calibration Todd Michael Lammers, Abdelkrim Tatah, Robert A. Matousek 2019-08-13 $7,274,000
10366722 Laser mode hop detection in a heat-assisted magnetic recording device using a slider sensor and laser modulation Riyan Alex Mendonsa, James Dillon Kiely, Joshua Ward Christensen, Jon D. Trantham, Chad Barry 2019-07-30 $10,343,000
10339963 Determining thermal gradient of a HAMR hotspot using pseudo-random bit sequences recorded at a stepped laser power Drew Michael Mader, Ian J. Gilbert, Walter R. Eppler 2019-07-02 $18,722,000
10290319 High rpm hard disk drive testing Antonia Tsoukatos, Mehmet Fatih Erden, Benjamin W Parish, Prasanna Manja Ramakrishna, Morovat Tayefeh +4 more 2019-05-14 $15,767,000
10210899 Skip track flaw scan methods and systems Antonia Tsoukatos, Mehmet Fatih Erden, Benjamin W Parish, Prasanna Manja Ramakrishna, John D Reinhardt +1 more 2019-02-19 $13,065,000
10204655 Heat-assisted magnetic recording device capable of preventing contaminant on the head Minjie Ma, Edward Charles Gage, James Dillon Kiely, Paul M. Jones, Yang Yang 2019-02-12 $11,672,000
10090011 Procedure for setting laser and heater power in HAMR device Tatsuya Shimizu, Wai Yeun Lai, Kai Chiu Cheung 2018-10-02 $11,091,000
10090016 Variable written track widths for attribute-based storage Kaizhong Gao, Wenzhong Zhu, Edward Charles Gage 2018-10-02 $11,091,000