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Robert D. Hempstead — 11 Patents

SESentera: 6 patents #6 of 178Top 4%
STSeagate Technology: 2 patents #2,193 of 4,701Top 50%
USUltratech Stepper: 1 patents #22 of 40Top 60%
WMWd Media: 1 patents #83 of 182Top 50%
IBM: 1 patents #44,878 of 70,183Top 65%
California: #56,011 of 386,348 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #435,149 of 4,157,543Top 15%
11 Patents All Time
Robert D. Hempstead has been granted 11 US patents while listed as an inventor at Sentera. The first was granted in 1980 and the most recent in December 2014. Robert D. Hempstead ranks #435,149 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 10.5%). Patent records list Robert D. Hempstead in معلمی نژاد, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–11 of 11 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8919279 Processing system having magnet keeper Allen J. Bourez, Jinliang Chen, Yew Ming Chiong 2014-12-30 $6,900,000
7541105 Epitaxial ferroelectric and magnetic recording structures including graded lattice matching layers Thomas F. Ambrose, Joachim Walter Ahner, Kai-Chieh Chang, Maissarath Nassirou, Mark Ian Lutwyche 2009-06-02 $8,990,000
7095585 Hard disk drive for perpendicular recording with transducer having submicron gap between pole tips Alexander Payne, William C. Cain, Michael E. Devillier, Harold J. Hamilton, Darren T. Imai +2 more 2006-08-22 $19,647,000
6671235 Method of and apparatus for defining disk tracks in magnetic recording media Andrew M. Hawryluk, David A. Markle 2003-12-30 $8,119,000
6535361 Contact planar magnetoresistive head William C. Cain, Michael E. Devillier, Harold J. Hamilton, 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, Michael E. Devillier +8 more 2002-12-10
6320725 Hard disk drive having ring head with predominantly perpendicular media fields Alexander Payne, William C. Cain, Michael E. Devillier, Harold J. Hamilton, Darren T. Imai +3 more 2001-11-20
6212047 Hard disk drive with magnetoresistive head and perpendicular media Alexander Payne, William C. Cain, Michael E. Devillier, Harold J. Hamilton, Darren T. Imai +3 more 2001-04-03
6198607 Contact planar magnetoresistive head William C. Cain, Michael E. Devillier, Harold J. Hamilton, Darren T. Imai, Dimitre Latev 2001-03-06
5949612 Low friction sliding hard disk drive system Christopher S. Gudeman, Michael H. Azarian, Michael A. Baldwinson, Keith R. Berding, Kaynam Chun +4 more 1999-09-07
4242710 Thin film head having negative magnetostriction James Bryant Money 1980-12-30 $54,084,000