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Wei Tian — 74 Patents

STSeagate Technology: 74 patents #27 of 4,722Top 1%
Eden Prairie, MN: #14 of 1,491 inventorsTop 1%
Minnesota: #411 of 52,454 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #26,215 of 4,157,543Top 1%
74 Patents All Time
Wei Tian has been granted 74 US patents while listed as an inventor at Seagate Technology. The first was granted in 2010 and the most recent in September 2025. Wei Tian ranks #26,215 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.63%). Patent records list Wei Tian in Eden Prairie, MN, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2010 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 16 patents in 2012.peak 162010: 3 patents20102011: 6 patents2012: 16 patents20122013: 8 patents2014: 8 patents20142015: 9 patents2016: 5 patents20162017: 8 patents2018: 4 patents20182019: 1 patents2020: 4 patents20202024: 1 patents2025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 74 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12421617 Electrodeposited materials and related methods Jie Gong, Steven C. Riemer, Michael C. Kautzky 2025-09-23
11866841 Electrodeposited materials and related methods Jie Gong, Steven C. Riemer, Michael C. Kautzky 2024-01-09 $64,300,000
10770096 Dual writer with bridged connection Javier Guzman, Jianhua Xue, Kirill Rivkin, Jian Zhong, Lei Lu 2020-09-08 $11,680,000
10699733 Write head with reduced side to trailing shield spacing Kirill Rivkin, Xiaohong Zhang, Yi-Cheng Liu 2020-06-30 $6,554,000
10643644 Write pole with varied sidewall shape Jianhua Xue, Yan Dong, Gregory P. Wakeham, Yong Luo 2020-05-05 $6,115,000
10586559 Side shield formation Jia Sun, Dong Lin, Shen Zhe, Jianhua Xue, Joe Mundenar 2020-03-10 $7,166,000
10210891 Dual writer head design utilizing two writers of different sizes for writing interlaced data tracks Jianhua Xue, Wenzhong Zhu, Ralph William Cross, Javier Guzman 2019-02-19 $13,065,000
10141014 Write head with reduced trailing shield—side shield spacing Kirill Rivkin, Xiaohong Zhang, Yi-Cheng Liu 2018-11-27 $20,675,000
10134428 Selective data writer coil Kirill Rivkin, Jianhua Xue, Lei Lu, Jian Zhong 2018-11-20 $14,953,000
9972345 Method for making a write head for magnetic recording Hauqing Yin, Lei Lu, Yong Luo, Joseph Mundenar 2018-05-15 $13,793,000
9922671 Main pole layer with at least two sacrificial layers and a gap layer Venkateswara Rao Inturi, Dong Lin, Huaqing Yin, Jiaoming Qiu 2018-03-20 $25,484,000
9818445 Magnetic storage device readers Wenzhong Zhu, Mehmet Fatih Erden, Kenneth A. Haapala, Edward Charles Gage 2017-11-14 $10,437,000
9805742 Selective data writer coil Kirill Rivkin, Jianhua Xue, Lei Lu, Jian Zhong 2017-10-31 $7,487,000
9761252 Write head having beveled non-magnetic write gap seed layer Venkateswara Rao Inturi, Dong Lin, Huaqing Yin, Jiaoming Qiu 2017-09-12 $6,411,000
9715888 Data writer with shaped write coil Muhammad Asif Bashir, Kirill Rivkin, Jianhua Xue, Beverley R. McConnell 2017-07-25 $11,608,000
9697852 Single coil turn data writer Jianhua Xue, Debin Wang, Huaqing Yin, John Wolf, Erik Jon Hutchinson +1 more 2017-07-04
9664572 Thin films having large temperature coefficient of resistance and methods of fabricating same Declan Macken, Huaqing Yin, Venkateswara Rao Inturi, Eric W. Singleton 2017-05-30 $13,661,000
9640204 Magnetic recording head front shield formation Xiaohong Zhang, Zhe Shen, Dong Lin, Joseph Mundenar 2017-05-02 $15,932,000
9601136 Data writer front shield with varying throat height Muhammad Asif Bashir, Jianhua Xue, Beverley R. McConnell, Shengzhou Liao, Prim Gangmei +2 more 2017-03-21 $22,339,000
9495979 Magnetic recording head front shield formation Xiaohong Zhang, Zhe Shen, Dong Lin, Joseph Mundenar 2016-11-15 $19,857,000
9396741 Data writer side shield with cantilevered protrusions Xiaohong Zhang, Joseph Mundenar, Dong Lin, Jia Sun 2016-07-19 $8,006,000
9349388 Data writer front shield with varying throat height Muhammad Asif Bashir, Jianhua Xue, Beverley R. McConnell, Shengzhou Liao, Prim Gangmei +2 more 2016-05-24 $6,562,000
9318131 Write gap structure for a magnetic recording head Huaqing Yin, Yan Dong, Joseph Mundenar, Jianhua Xue 2016-04-19 $7,013,000
9263142 Programming a memory cell using a dual polarity charge pump YoungPil Kim, Dadi Setiadi, Antoine Khoueir, Rodney Virgil Bowman 2016-02-16 $8,314,000
9214167 Main pole layer with at least tow sacrificial layers and a gap layer Venkateswara Rao Inturi, Doug Lin, Huaqing Yin, Jiaoming Qiu 2015-12-15 $9,552,000