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Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
12315539 Heat assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) write head with enhanced stability and methods for making the same Sung-Hun Wee, Hamid Balamane, Pradeep Damitha Senanayake, Takuya Matsumoto 2025-05-27
10106885 Heat assisted magnetic recording head having near-field transducer with a sloped nose Mingjun Yu, Min Zheng, Kyung Lee, Tsung-Yuan Chen 2018-10-23
9786304 Method for providing heat assisted magnetic recording write apparatus having a near-field transducer with a sloped nose Mingjun Yu, Min Zheng, Kyung Lee, Tsung-Yuan Chen 2017-10-10
9087542 Method for providing a structure having reduced voids in a magnetic recording transducer Yufeng Hu, Ut Tran, Jerome S. Marcelino, Jikou Zhou 2015-07-21
8834728 Method and system for providing an energy assisted magnetic recording writer having a self aligned heat sink and NFT Yufeng Hu, Ut Tran, Zhongyan Wang, Mirzafer Abatchev 2014-09-16
8773956 Bi-layer NFT-core spacer for EAMR system and method of making the same Zhongyan Wang, Hongxing Yuan, Yufeng Hu 2014-07-08
8753903 Methods and apparatuses for performing wafer level characterization of a plasmon element Yufeng Hu, Sergei Sochava 2014-06-17
8749790 Structure and method to measure waveguide power absorption by surface plasmon element Yufeng Hu, Ut Tran, Zhongyan Wang, Zhong Shi, Sergei Sochava 2014-06-10
8721902 Method and system for providing an energy assisted magnetic recording writer having a heat sink and NFT Zhongyan Wang, Wei-Xin Gao, Mirzafer Abatchev, Yanfeng Chen, Yufeng Hu 2014-05-13
8625233 System and method for fabricating a magnetic recording pole Lili Ji, Ming Jiang, Jerome S. Marcelino, Dujiang Wan, Tiffany Yun Wen Jiang 2014-01-07
8565049 Method and system for reducing thermal protrusion of an NFT Yufeng Hu 2013-10-22
8491801 Method and system for providing an NFT using a sacrificial NFT structure Yufeng Hu, Ut Tran, Zhongyan Wang 2013-07-23