Inventor · Redwood City, CA, US

David Heim

28Patents
14h-index
39Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: Jan 28, 1985 → Nov 16, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5465185A Magnetoresistive spin valve sensor with improved pinned ferromagnetic layer and magnetic recording system using the sensor Physics 253 Expired
US5583725A Spin valve magnetoresistive sensor with self-pinned laminated layer and magnetic recording system using the sensor Physics 214 Expired
US5422571A Magnetoresistive spin valve sensor having a nonmagnetic back layer Electricity 116 Expired
US5793578A Thin film induction recording head having an inset first insulation layer that defines zero throat height and pole tip apex angle Physics 78 Expired
US5508867A Magnetoresistive sensor with flux keepered spin valve configuration Physics 62 Expired
US5600519A Controlled saturation thin film magnetic write head Physics 59 Expired
US5557492A Thin film magnetoresistive head with reduced lead-shield shorting Physics 46 Expired
US5901432A Method for making a thin film inductive write head having a pedestal pole tip and an electroplated gap Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 41 Expired
US6122144A Contoured pole tip structures for minimizing side track erasure Physics 38 Expired
US5375022A Magnetic disk drive with electrical shorting protection Physics 31 Expired
US5935644A Method of making thin film induction recording head having an inset first insulation layer that defines zero throat height and pole tip apex angle Physics 28 Expired
US5420736A MR read transducer with thermal noise cancellation Physics 28 Expired
US4644432A Three pole single element magnetic read/write head Physics 21 Expired
US5666246A Magnetic storage system with canted hardbias magnetoresistive head Physics 17 Expired
US5638235A Magnetic storage system with canted hardbias magnetoresistive head Physics 14 Expired
US8169816B2 Fabrication methods of partial cladded write line to enhance write margin for magnetic random access memory Electricity 13 Active
US7630177B2 Tunnel MR head with closed-edge laminated free layer Physics 9 Active
US7652855B2 Magnetic sensor with extended free layer and overlaid leads Physics 4 Active
US7472469B2 Method for fabricating a magnetic head having a sensor stack and two lateral stack Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 4 Active
US7885094B2 MRAM with cross-tie magnetization configuration Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 3 Active
US8213132B2 Magnetic sensor having a physically hard insulation layer over a magnetic bias structure Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 2 Active
US7344330B2 Topographically defined thin film CPP read head fabrication Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 2 Expired
US7019950B2 Magnetoresistive sensor having bias magnets with steep endwalls Physics 1 Expired
US10842656B2 Stent device having reduced foreshortening and recoil and method of making same Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 0 Active
US11865018B2 Stent device having reduced foreshortening and recoil and method of making same Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 0 Active

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