Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025
YC

Yuanda Cheng — 10 Patents

STSeagate Technology: 6 patents #1,045 of 4,722Top 25%
AMAkashic Memories: 2 patents #2 of 23Top 9%
STStormedia: 1 patents #10 of 23Top 45%
San Jose, CA: #6,421 of 32,062 inventorsTop 25%
California: #61,378 of 386,348 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #481,000 of 4,157,543Top 15%
10 Patents All Time
Yuanda Cheng has been granted 10 US patents while listed as an inventor at Seagate Technology. The first was granted in 1997 and the most recent in October 2006. Yuanda Cheng ranks #481,000 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 11.6%). Patent records list Yuanda Cheng in San Jose, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1997 to 2006Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2003.peak 31997: 1 patents19971998: 1 patents19982001: 1 patents20012002: 1 patents20022003: 3 patents20032004: 2 patents20042006: 1 patents2006

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–10 of 10 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7118815 Method to improve coercivity radial profile in magnetic recording media and product thereof Xiongwei Ji, Jianzhong Shi, Darren Ng, Kakeng Ling, Huitong Ng +2 more 2006-10-10 $11,493,000
6702930 Method and means for enhancing utilization of sputtering targets Dennis Brown, Jianzhong Shi, Wee Ching Freddy Goh, Wah Soh, Steven Hiroshi Sawasaki 2004-03-09 $9,381,000
6689253 Facing target assembly and sputter deposition apparatus Chinsoon Koh, Stephen Sawasaki, Jianzhong Shi 2004-02-10 $11,048,000
6641932 Magnetic thin film media with chromium capping layer Weilu Xu, Taesun Kim, Chung Shih, Liji Huang, Kueir Weii Chour +2 more 2003-11-04 $12,338,000
6620531 Magnetic recording media with oxidized seedlayer for reduced grain size and reduced grain size distribution 2003-09-16 $12,135,000
6524724 Control of magnetic film grain structure by modifying Ni-P plating of the substrate Connie Chunling Liu, Chung Shih, Linda Zhong, Jeff D. St. John, Jeffery Lee Petrehn 2003-02-25 $6,909,000
6361859 Magnetic recording media having CrMo underlayers Xingbo Yang, Yancy Song 2002-03-26
6183860 Magnetic recording media having CrMo underlayers Xingbo Yang, Yancy Song 2001-02-06
5800863 Carbon seedlayer on non-metallic substrates for magnetic recording media Richard A. Gardner, Mojtaba Sedighi 1998-09-01
5599632 Carbon seedlayer on non-metallic substrates for magnetic recording media Richard A. Gardner, Mojtaba Sedighi 1997-02-04