Inventor · Palo Alto, CA, US

Bruno Marchon

31Patents
8h-index
42Co-inventors
75Inventor score

Filing activity: Aug 15, 1980 → Jan 22, 2024

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6188547A Slider with pressure relief trenches Physics 57 Expired
US6212042A Slider having air bearing surface which includes pads for disk storage system Physics 31 Expired
US6208489A Head stack-level load/unload mechanism for rigid disk drives Physics 19 Expired
US6293135A Method of calibrating a system for detecting contact of a glide head with a recording media surface Physics 19 Expired
US6356405B1 Lubricant control in disc drive Physics 12 Expired
US6142006A Method and apparatus for calibrating a glide head and detection system for a magnetic disk drive Physics 10 Expired
US4389379A Process for selective liquid-liquid extraction of germanium Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 9 Expired
US6445543B1 Slider with pressure relief trenches Physics 9 Expired
US8139309B2 Negative biasing a slider with respect to a disk to reduce slider wear and provide burnish rate control Physics 8 Active
US6190749A Hydroxyethyloxymethyl terminated perfluoropolyethers for lubrication of discs in information storage systems Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 7 Expired
US4568526A Process for selective liquid-liquid extraction of germanium Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 6 Expired
US6130807A Information storage disc having a curved disc surface Physics 6 Expired
US6556389B1 Method for thermally isolating a magnetoresistive element from thermal asperities Physics 5 Expired
US6404590B1 Magnetic media with randomly positioned texturing features Physics 5 Expired
US6557399B1 Advanced glidehead sensor for small slider Physics 4 Expired
US6850391B1 Design of a rigid disc plastic substrate with high stiffness insert Physics 3 Expired
US6153284A Magnetic recording medium with high non-operational shock resistance Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 3 Expired
US11414617B2 Lubricants and methods to determine dewetting thickness thereof Physics 2 Active
US11536010B2 Atmospheric water harvester with climate-adjustable adsorbant properties Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 1 Active
US11781295B2 Atmospheric water harvester with climate-adjustable adsorbant properties Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 1 Active
US11898116B2 Lubricants and methods to determine dewetting thickness thereof Physics 1 Active
US7946156B2 Glide test heads using heating elements to form a planar detection surface Physics 0 Active
US12098529B2 Atmospheric water harvester with climate-adjustable adsorbant properties Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 0 Active
US12054402B2 Water harvesting systems, and methods of using thereof Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 0 Active
US6663938B1 Media contact zone with bell-shaped texturing features Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 0 Expired

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.