Inventor · Pittsburgh, PA, US

David E. Laughlin

13Patents
7h-index
19Co-inventors
63Inventor score

Filing activity: Aug 4, 1977 → May 29, 2012

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5693426A Magnetic recording medium with B2 structured underlayer and a cobalt-based magnetic layer Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 77 Expired
US6248416A Highly oriented magnetic thin films, recording media, transducers, devices made therefrom and methods of making Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 61 Expired
US5800931A Magnetic recording medium with a MgO sputter deposited seed layer Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 43 Expired
US5993956A Manganese containing layer for magnetic recording media Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 26 Expired
US4152842A Dehydrator Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating 23 Expired
US6432563B1 Zinc enhanced hard disk media Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 16 Expired
US6849349B2 Magnetic films having magnetic and non-magnetic regions and method of producing such films by ion irradiation Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 13 Expired
US6649277B1 Structure for and method of making magnetic recording media Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 1 Expired
US8449730B2 Buffer layers for L10 thin film perpendicular media Physics 1 Active
US6596417B1 Magnetic recording medium with a Ga3Pt5 structured underlayer and a cobalt-based magnetic layer Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 1 Expired
US8675456B2 Method of writing data with binary anisotropy media Physics 1 Active
US8665055B2 Soft magnetic alloy and uses thereof Electricity 0 Active
US8211557B2 Binary anisotropy media Physics 0 Active

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