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Wayne A. Bonin — 84 Patents

STSeagate Technology: 65 patents #35 of 4,701Top 1%
HYHysitron: 5 patents #11 of 32Top 35%
VSVertimag Systems: 2 patents #1 of 5Top 20%
UNUnknown: 1 patents #29,356 of 83,584Top 40%
VCVericom Co.: 1 patents #9 of 17Top 55%
W(Western Digital (Fremont): 1 patents #299 of 473Top 65%
North Oaks, MN: #6 of 166 inventorsTop 4%
Minnesota: #314 of 52,454 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #20,511 of 4,157,543Top 1%
84 Patents All Time
Wayne A. Bonin has been granted 84 US patents while listed as an inventor at Seagate Technology. The first was granted in 1985 and the most recent in November 2019. Wayne A. Bonin ranks #20,511 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.49%). Patent records list Wayne A. Bonin in North Oaks, MN, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 84 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10468056 Conductive probe interconnects and related devices and methods Stefan A. Weissner, James R. Krolnik 2019-11-05 $9,809,000
8720256 Off-axis imaging for indentation instruments 2014-05-13
8514522 Systems for interconnecting magnetic heads of storage devices in a test assembly Tzong-Shii Pan, Gunphai Prateepphaisan, Tahir Ali, Greg R. Knodel, Adisak Tokaew 2013-08-20 $20,898,000
8191407 Folded beam suspension for probe 2012-06-05 $8,263,000
8189300 Multi-layer capacitive transducer with mult-dimension operation 2012-05-29
8174796 Baseplate interconnect Mark A. Toffle, Vincent John Reis, Brent M. Weichelt, Jason Zimmerman 2012-05-08 $32,493,000
8125057 Magnetic shielding for integrated circuit Dadi Setiadi 2012-02-28 $16,299,000
8026732 Probe with bi-directional electrostatic actuation Dadi Setiadi 2011-09-27 $7,526,000
8004796 Slider with contact features initiated at wafer level John L. Brand 2011-08-23 $7,530,000
7965589 Recordable disc and motor Roger L. Hipwell, Jr., Nurul Amin, John R. Pendray, Andrew White, Bradley Jay Ver Meer +2 more 2011-06-21 $7,388,000
7957091 Recordable disc with fluid bearing features Roger L. Hipwell, Jr., Nurul Amin, John R. Pendray, Andrew White, Bradley Jay Ver Meer +2 more 2011-06-07 $9,018,000
7915890 High sensitivity magnetic sensor 2011-03-29 $5,667,000
7898266 Probe with electrostatic actuation and capacitive sensor Dadi Setiadi, Lance E. Stover 2011-03-01 $6,164,000
7864504 Multi-layer capacitive transducer 2011-01-04
7835110 MEMS disc drive Alan Johnston, Roger L. Hipwell, Jr., Hans Leuthold, Song S. Xue, Nurul Amin +6 more 2010-11-16 $14,287,000
7826171 Interconnect architecture for disc drive array Alan Johnston, Roger L. Hipwell, Jr., Hans Leuthold, Song S. Xue, Nurul Amin +6 more 2010-11-02 $4,037,000
7698806 Process for fabricating a slider or head for a data storage device Roger L. Hipwell, Jr., John R. Pendray, Kyle Bartholomew, Zine-Eddine Boutaghou 2010-04-20 $51,092,000
7647822 Coaxial imaging for indentation instruments 2010-01-19
7609488 Fly height actuator/void region in basecoat Michael Thomas Johnson, Dion Song 2009-10-27 $26,161,000
7466520 Co-located microactuator lever assembly Andrew White, Zine-Eddine Boutaghou 2008-12-16 $5,672,000
7336443 Slider for a data storage device with a floating transducer body and method of fabrication therefor 2008-02-26 $82,176,000
7277267 Multi-layer capacitive transducer 2007-10-02
7277257 Transducer-level microactuator for a magnetic recording system Roger L. Hipwell, Jr., Kyle Bartholomew, Lance E. Stover, Jeremy Adam Thurn, Zine-Eddine Boutaghou 2007-10-02 $42,783,000
7263896 Precision multi-dimensional capacitive transducer 2007-09-04
7254885 Wafer-level fabrication method for top or side slider bond pads Roger L. Hipwell, Jr., Kyle Bartholomew, John R. Pendray, Zine-Eddine Boutaghou 2007-08-14 $16,958,000