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Michael E. Devillier — 7 Patents

SESentera: 5 patents #10 of 178Top 6%
RRRead Rite: 1 patents #221 of 255Top 90%
STSeagate Technology: 1 patents #3,580 of 4,701Top 80%
San Jose, CA: #8,545 of 32,062 inventorsTop 30%
California: #83,669 of 386,348 inventorsTop 25%
Overall (All Time): #680,018 of 4,157,543Top 20%
7 Patents All Time
Michael E. Devillier has been granted 7 US patents while listed as an inventor at Sentera. The first was granted in 1998 and the most recent in August 2006. Michael E. Devillier ranks #680,018 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 16.4%). Patent records list Michael E. Devillier in San Jose, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–7 of 7 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7095585 Hard disk drive for perpendicular recording with transducer having submicron gap between pole tips Alexander Payne, William C. Cain, Harold J. Hamilton, Robert D. Hempstead, Darren T. Imai +2 more 2006-08-22 $19,647,000
6535361 Contact planar magnetoresistive head William C. Cain, Harold J. Hamilton, Robert D. Hempstead, Darren T. Imai, Dimitre Latev 2003-03-18
6493191 Planar magnetic ring head for contact recording with a rigid disk William C. Cain, Richard Dyche Anderson, Michael A. Baldwinson, Keith R. Berding, Garrett A. Garrettson +8 more 2002-12-10
6320725 Hard disk drive having ring head with predominantly perpendicular media fields Alexander Payne, William C. Cain, Harold J. Hamilton, Robert D. Hempstead, Darren T. Imai +3 more 2001-11-20
6212047 Hard disk drive with magnetoresistive head and perpendicular media Alexander Payne, William C. Cain, Harold J. Hamilton, Robert D. Hempstead, Darren T. Imai +3 more 2001-04-03
6198607 Contact planar magnetoresistive head William C. Cain, Harold J. Hamilton, Robert D. Hempstead, Darren T. Imai, Dimitre Latev 2001-03-06
5793577 Planar geometry thin film head with shaped poles Eric R. Katz 1998-08-11 $1,484,000