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Patricia T Nguyen

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Most Active Art Unit
2817
Art Unit(s)
2843, 2817, 2811, 2842
Total Applications
2663
Issued Applications
2449
Pending Applications
116
Abandoned Applications
97

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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17/156920
Near-field transducer with separated bottom Au layer Jan 24, 2021 Issued
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17/139923
Degausser Mechanism Utilizing Magnetic Fluid for Destroying the Functionality of Data Bearing Components of Magnetic Media Data Bearing Devices Dec 30, 2020 Abandoned
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17/138508
Heat-assisted magnetic recording head with a near-field transducer extending beyond the media-facing surface Dec 29, 2020 Issued
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17/116107
Heat sinking layer between a substrate and encasing layers of a recording head Dec 8, 2020 Issued
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17/116715
Recording device, control device, recording method, recording tape cartridge, and data recording and reproducing system Dec 8, 2020 Issued
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17/111201
Plural heat-sink layers for an On-Wafer Laser of a heat-assisted magnetic recording device Dec 2, 2020 Issued
Array ( [id] => 17573322 [patent_doc_number] => 11321595 [patent_country] => US [patent_kind] => B2 [patent_issue_date] => 2022-05-03 [patent_title] => Media processing apparatus capable of printing label on storage media without interrupting [patent_app_type] => utility [patent_app_number] => 17/101228 [patent_app_country] => US [patent_app_date] => 2020-11-23 [patent_effective_date] => 0000-00-00 [patent_drawing_sheets_cnt] => 5 [patent_figures_cnt] => 5 [patent_no_of_words] => 9213 [patent_no_of_claims] => 20 [patent_no_of_ind_claims] => 3 [patent_words_short_claim] => 169 [patent_maintenance] => 1 [patent_no_of_assignments] => 0 [patent_current_assignee] =>[type] => patent [pdf_file] =>[firstpage_image] =>[orig_patent_app_number] => 17101228 [rel_patent_id] =>[rel_patent_doc_number] =>)
17/101228
Media processing apparatus capable of printing label on storage media without interrupting Nov 22, 2020 Issued
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16/950117
Data storage device coupling/decoupling actuator arm to/from an actuator Nov 16, 2020 Issued
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16/950885
Thermally-assisted magnetic recording head having active layer with quantum dot structure Nov 16, 2020 Issued
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17/090684
Variable hard disc drive idle spindle speeds within a disc array Nov 4, 2020 Issued
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17/083352
Optimized tape unmount operation Oct 28, 2020 Issued
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17/083355
Optimized tape unmount operation Oct 28, 2020 Issued
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17/082360
Laser feedback suppressor for heat-assisted magnetic recording Oct 27, 2020 Issued
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17/072302
Protective shields under touchdown conditions for thermally assisted perpendicular magnetic recording Oct 15, 2020 Issued
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17/039026
Read head stress reduction Sep 29, 2020 Issued
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17/024234
Waveguide with optical isolator for heat-assisted magnetic recording Sep 16, 2020 Issued
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17/017167
Heat-assisted magnetic recording laser with a curved facet Sep 9, 2020 Issued
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17/010025
Energy-assisted magnetic recording device Sep 1, 2020 Issued
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17/003355
Bolometric sensor for a heat-assisted magnetic recording device Aug 25, 2020 Issued
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17/001710
Compensation for expansion and contraction across the width of a magnetic tape Aug 24, 2020 Issued
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