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John E. Scura

WT Western Digital Technologies: 14 patents #214 of 3,180Top 7%
ST Seagate Technology: 3 patents #1,519 of 4,626Top 35%
MI Micropolis: 2 patents #9 of 39Top 25%
MA Maxtor: 1 patents #329 of 656Top 55%
S( Sae Magnetics (H.K.): 1 patents #306 of 585Top 55%
GE: 1 patents #19,878 of 36,430Top 55%
Overall (All Time): #164,080 of 4,157,543Top 4%
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Patents All Time

Issued Patents All Time

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
9564156 Head gimbal assembly having a flexure tail with cover layer standoff islands Wing C. Shum, Yanning Liu 2017-02-07
9472218 Suspension assembly having a microactuator electrically connected to a gold coating on a stainless steel surface Yanning Liu, Wing C. Shum 2016-10-18
9230580 Suspension assembly having a microactuator grounded to a flexure Wing C. Shum, Yanning Liu 2016-01-05
9099131 Suspension assembly having a microactuator electrically connected to a gold coating on a stainless steel surface Yanning Liu, Wing C. Shum 2015-08-04
8964328 Shock sensor on an external surface of a disk drive base adjacent a disk drive printed circuit board Robert P. Ryan, Erik J. Eklund, May C. Kung, Albert J. Guerini, Michael K. Liebman 2015-02-24
8908332 Suspension assembly having a microactuator grounded to a flexure Wing C. Shum, Yanning Liu 2014-12-09
8760814 Disk drive head suspension assembly having a DLC coating between dimple and tongue Tzong-Shii Pan, David E. Fowler, Yanning Liu 2014-06-24
8665567 Suspension assembly having a microactuator grounded to a flexure Wing C. Shum, Yanning Liu 2014-03-04
8542465 Suspension assembly having a microactuator electrically connected to a gold coating on a stainless steel surface Yanning Liu, Wing C. Shum 2013-09-24
8339748 Suspension assembly having a microactuator bonded to a flexure Wing C. Shum, Yanning Liu 2012-12-25
7920360 Torsion compensation coil for voice coil motor of disk drive device, and method of making the same Francisco Obregon, Mark S. Seymour 2011-04-05
7876532 Low-profile rotary motor with fixed back iron John Beley, David W. Chew, Wendy Lorimer, Babu S. RAHMAN, Frank Morris 2011-01-25
7839602 Base dam in a data storage system to reduce or eliminate motor leakage James A. Dunckley, Francisco Obregon, Daniel Robert Ohlsen, Michael Joseph Russell 2010-11-23
7733610 Load/unload ramp for an actuator assembly in a data storage device John Beley 2010-06-08
7369345 Mobile hard disk drive free fall detection and protection Yunfeng Li, Erhard Schreck, Wei Guo, Tim R. Glassburn, Mark Heimbaugh +4 more 2008-05-06
6980401 Head stack and actuator arm assemblies including a bobbin to stiffen the coil portion of an actuator of a hard disk drive and disk drives including the same Sudha Narayanan, Seungman Chang, Chen-Chi Lin 2005-12-27
6826009 Disk drive including a filter element disposed along a disk surface for filtering disk rotation induced airflow Richard G. Krum 2004-11-30
6704167 Disk drive including damping member disposed upon latch for damping tang-to-latch impact and mitigating tang-to-latch contact Pradeep K. Thayamballi, Haldun Arin 2004-03-09
6698286 Method of balancing a disk pack using spindle motor imbalance and disk drive including a balanced disk pack Aaron D. Little 2004-03-02
6583968 Spindle motor hub having equivalent MR read element bias voltage to mitigate potential between disk and MR read element Hossein Moghadam 2003-06-24
6549376 Gimbal suspension with vibration damper Frank Obregon, Lam Tran 2003-04-15
5982586 Compact hard disk drive head positioner latch 1999-11-09
5793566 Self securing compliant gasket for a disk drive assembly housing Haldun Arin 1998-08-11
5366200 Shock mount assembly 1994-11-22
4947093 Shock resistant winchester disk drive Ericson M. Dunstan, Dennis W. Hogg, Ming-Goei Sheu 1990-08-07