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Headway Technologies, Inc.

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1,215Patents
850Active
1,215Granted
61Portfolio score

Filing activity: Mar 27, 1996 → Jun 10, 2024 · 319 expiring within 5 years

Most-cited patents

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7863095B2 Method of manufacturing layered chip package Electricity 226 Active
US9230571B1 MgO based perpendicular spin polarizer in microwave assisted magnetic recording (MAMR) applications Physics 165 Active
US8582240B1 Magnetic recording assisted by spin torque oscillator with a radio frequency current bias Physics 153 Active
US7449345B2 Capping structure for enhancing dR/R of the MTJ device Electricity 133 Expired
US7045368B2 MRAM cell structure and method of fabrication Electricity 117 Expired
US6773515B2 FeTa nano-oxide layer as a capping layer for enhancement of giant magnetoresistance in bottom spin valve structures Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 111 Expired
US10325618B1 Perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) writer with one or more spin flipping elements in the gap Physics 109 Active
US7262941B2 FeTa nano-oxide layer as a capping layer for enhancement of giant magnetoresistance in bottom spin valve structures Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 104 Expired
US7476919B2 MRAM cell structure and method of fabrication Electricity 98 Active
US7335960B2 MRAM cell with flat topography and controlled bit line to free layer distance and method of manufacture Electricity 97 Expired
US6292336A Giant magnetoresistive (GMR) sensor element with enhanced magnetoresistive (MR) coefficient Physics 96 Expired
US8852760B2 Free layer with high thermal stability for magnetic device applications by insertion of a boron dusting layer Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 94 Active
US6466418B1 Bottom spin valves with continuous spacer exchange (or hard) bias Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 90 Expired
US8456883B1 Method of spin torque MRAM process integration Electricity 87 Active
US9361912B1 High moment side shield design for area density improvement of perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) writer Physics 84 Active
US8823118B2 Spin torque transfer magnetic tunnel junction fabricated with a composite tunneling barrier layer Electricity 82 Active
US9466319B1 Perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) write shield design with minimized wide adjacent track erasure (WATE) Physics 80 Active
US8860156B2 Minimal thickness synthetic antiferromagnetic (SAF) structure with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy for STT-MRAM Electricity 78 Active
US8264792B2 PMR writer device with multi-level tapered write pole Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 76 Active
US8722543B2 Composite hard mask with upper sacrificial dielectric layer for the patterning and etching of nanometer size MRAM devices Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 75 Active
US7698941B2 Sensing unit and method of making same Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 72 Active
US6998150B2 Method of adjusting CoFe free layer magnetostriction Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 72 Expired
US7602033B2 Low resistance tunneling magnetoresistive sensor with composite inner pinned layer Electricity 71 Active
US8203389B1 Field tunable spin torque oscillator for RF signal generation Electricity 71 Active
US7628071B2 Sensing unit and method of making same Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 71 Active

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Counts and citation impact are objective bibliographic measures.