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Daniel Bedau — 42 Patents

WTWestern Digital Technologies: 27 patents #80 of 3,180Top 3%
STSandisk Technologies: 8 patents #545 of 2,594Top 25%
NUNew York University: 5 patents #129 of 1,640Top 8%
San Jose, CA: #1,306 of 32,062 inventorsTop 5%
California: #10,667 of 386,348 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #72,062 of 4,157,543Top 2%
42 Patents All Time
Daniel Bedau has been granted 42 US patents while listed as an inventor at Western Digital Technologies. The first was granted in 2014 and the most recent in December 2025. Daniel Bedau ranks #72,062 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.7%). Patent records list Daniel Bedau in San Jose, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2014 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 7 patents in 2023.peak 72014: 1 patents20142015: 1 patents2016: 2 patents20162017: 3 patents2018: 3 patents20182019: 2 patents2020: 3 patents20202021: 4 patents2022: 3 patents20222023: 7 patents2024: 6 patents20242025: 7 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 42 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12487229 Devices, systems, and methods of using smart fluids to control molecule speeds Justin Kinney 2025-12-02
12461064 Magnetic control of molecule translocation speed through a nanopore Justin Kinney 2025-11-04
12306179 Thermal sensor array for molecule detection and related detection schemes Patrick M. Braganca 2025-05-20
12259353 Amplifiers for biological sensing applications 2025-03-25
12241950 Magnetoresistive sensor array for molecule detection and related detection schemes Patrick M. Braganca 2025-03-04
12224042 Devices and methods for genome sequencing Wen Ma, Tung Thanh Hoang, Justin Kinney 2025-02-11
12205640 Overwrite read methods for resistance switching memory devices Michael Grobis, Christopher J. Petti 2025-01-21
12163921 Based on thermal stabilities of magnetic nanoparticles Patrick M. Braganca 2024-12-10 $43,106,000
12131057 Encoding and integrity markers for molecular storage applications 2024-10-29 $57,695,000
11946894 Low noise amplifiers with feedback for nanopore applications 2024-04-02 $38,332,000
11940404 Low noise amplifiers with shields for nanopore Applications 2024-03-26 $10,682,000
11932904 Enhanced optical detection for nucleic acid sequencing using thermally-dependent fluorophore tags Patrick M. Braganca 2024-03-19 $9,873,000
11892445 Devices, systems, and methods of using smart fluids to control translocation speed through a nanopore Justin Kinney 2024-02-06 $8,129,000
11846564 Optical systems and methods for locating query symbols in a reference sequence Justin Kinney 2023-12-19 $23,359,000
11811425 Neural network soft information detector in a read channel Iouri Oboukhov, Richard Leo Galbraith, Niranjay Ravindran, Weldon M. Hanson, Pradhan Bellam 2023-11-07 $9,054,000
11747329 Magnetic gradient concentrator/reluctance detector for molecule detection 2023-09-05 $14,700,000
11750379 Secure optical communication link 2023-09-05 $14,700,000
11738336 Spin torque oscillator (STO) sensors used in nucleic acid sequencing arrays and detection schemes for nucleic acid sequencing Patrick M. Braganca 2023-08-29 $17,565,000
11609208 Devices and methods for molecule detection based on thermal stabilities of magnetic nanoparticles Patrick M. Braganca 2023-03-21 $46,933,000
11579217 Devices and methods for frequency- and phase-based detection of magnetically-labeled molecules using spin torque oscillator (STO) sensors Patrick M. Braganca 2023-02-14 $12,993,000
11355188 One selector one resistor RAM threshold voltage drift and offset voltage compensation methods Michael Grobis 2022-06-07
11327073 Thermal sensor array for molecule detection and related detection schemes Patrick M. Braganca 2022-05-10 $22,186,000
11271009 Ferroelectric memory devices employing conductivity modulation of a thin semiconductor material or a two-dimensional charge carrier gas and methods of operating the same Alan Kalitsov, Derek Stewart, Gerardo A. Bertero 2022-03-08
11208682 Enhanced optical detection for nucleic acid sequencing using thermally-dependent fluorophore tags Patrick M. Braganca 2021-12-28 $10,337,000
11170852 Cross-bar arrays having steering element with diode Justin Kinney 2021-11-09