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Xiaoding Ma — 32 Patents

STSeagate Technology: 31 patents #143 of 4,722Top 4%
STSeagate Technologies: 1 patents #14 of 110Top 15%
Fremont, CA: #472 of 9,298 inventorsTop 6%
California: #15,919 of 386,348 inventorsTop 5%
Overall (All Time): #110,428 of 4,157,543Top 3%
32 Patents All Time
Xiaoding Ma has been granted 32 US patents while listed as an inventor at Seagate Technology. The first was granted in 2001 and the most recent in August 2020. Xiaoding Ma ranks #110,428 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.7%). Patent records list Xiaoding Ma in Fremont, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2001 to 2020Bar chart with a peak of 7 patents in 2003.peak 72001: 2 patents20012002: 1 patents2003: 7 patents20032004: 5 patents2005: 1 patents20052006: 1 patents2007: 1 patents20072008: 1 patents2012: 1 patents20122013: 1 patents2014: 1 patents20142016: 1 patents2017: 2 patents20172018: 4 patents2019: 1 patents20192020: 2 patents2020

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 26–32 of 32 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
6627302 Lubricant overcoat for recording media and a process for making the same Huan Tang, Raj Thangaraj, Michael Joseph Stirniman 2003-09-30 $19,990,000
6613422 Nitrogen -implanted, high carbon density overcoats for recording media Michael Joseph Stirniman, Jing Gui 2003-09-02 $15,551,000
6602570 Zone bonded lubrication for hard disk recording media Raj Thangaraj, Huan Tang, Michael Joseph Stirniman 2003-08-05 $11,339,000
6526909 Biased ion beam deposition of high density carbon Kevin J. Grannen, Jeffrey A. McCann, Jing Gui, Mark A. Shows 2003-03-04 $8,137,000
6392244 Ion beam deposition of diamond-like carbon overcoats by hydrocarbon source gas pulsing Kevin J. Grannen, Jing Gui 2002-05-21
6312798 Magnetic recording medium having a nitrogen-doped hydrogenated carbon protective overcoat Kevin J. Grannen, Jing Gui, Jeffrey A. McCann, Mark A. Shows 2001-11-06
6286453 Shield design for IBC deposition Kevin J. Grannen, Jeffrey A. McCann, Jing Gui, Mark A. Shows 2001-09-11