Eric Fullerton
52Patents
15h-index
42Co-inventors
80Inventor score
Filing activity: Jun 2, 1999 → Aug 28, 2017
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US6280813A | Magnetic recording media with antiferromagnetically coupled ferromagnetic films as the recording layer | Physics | 109 | Expired |
| US6391430B1 | Patterned magnetic recording media with discrete magnetic regions separated by regions of antiferromagnetically coupled films | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 51 | Expired |
| US6834026B2 | Method for thermally-assisted recording on a magnetic recording disk | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 45 | Expired |
| US6650513B2 | Magnetic devices with a ferromagnetic layer having perpendicular magnetic anisotropy and an antiferromagnetic layer for perpendicularly exchange biasing the ferromagnetic layer | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 44 | Expired |
| US7372116B2 | Heat assisted switching in an MRAM cell utilizing the antiferromagnetic to ferromagnetic transition in FeRh | Physics | 39 | Expired |
| US6383597B1 | Magnetic recording media with magnetic bit regions patterned by ion irradiation | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 32 | Expired |
| US6383668B1 | Magnetic recording media with antiferromagnetically coupled host layer for the magnetic recording layer | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 30 | Expired |
| US6372330B1 | Laminated magnetic recording media with antiferromagnetically coupled layers as the individual magnetic layers in the laminate | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 29 | Expired |
| US6537684B1 | Antiferromagnetically coupled magnetic recording media with boron-free first ferromagnetic film as nucleation layer | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 24 | Expired |
| US6383598B1 | Patterned magnetic recording media with regions rendered nonmagnetic by ion irradiation | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 21 | Expired |
| US7425377B2 | Incoherently-reversing magnetic laminate with exchange coupled ferromagnetic layers | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 18 | Active |
| US6893741B2 | Magnetic device with improved antiferromagnetically coupling film | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 16 | Expired |
| US7550210B2 | Perpendicular magnetic recording medium with multiple exchange-coupled magnetic layers having substantially similar anisotropy fields | Physics | 16 | Active |
| US6723450B2 | Magnetic recording medium with antiparallel coupled ferromagnetic films as the recording layer | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 16 | Expired |
| US6440589B1 | Magnetic media with ferromagnetic overlay materials for improved thermal stability | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 15 | Expired |
| US6567236B1 | Antiferromagnetically coupled thin films for magnetic recording | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 14 | Expired |
| US6836392B2 | Stability-enhancing underlayer for exchange-coupled magnetic structures, magnetoresistive sensors, and magnetic disk drive systems | Physics | 14 | Expired |
| US7572526B2 | Perpendicular magnetic recording medium with exchange-spring structure having multiple exchange-spring layers and recording system for the medium | Physics | 13 | Active |
| US6773834B2 | Laminated magnetic recording media with antiferromagnetically coupled layer as one of the individual magnetic layers in the laminate | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 13 | Expired |
| US7488545B2 | Perpendicular magnetic recording medium with laminated recording layers formed of exchange-coupled ferromagnetic layers | Physics | 13 | Expired |
| US7081309B2 | Magnetic recording disk with antiferromagnetically-coupled magnetic layer having multiple ferromagnetically-coupled lower layers | Physics | 12 | Expired |
| US7588841B2 | Perpendicular magnetic recording exchange-spring type medium with a lateral coupling layer for increasing intergranular exchange coupling in the lower magnetic layer | Physics | 12 | Active |
| US7670696B2 | Perpendicular magnetic recording medium with patterned magnetic islands and nonmagnetic trenches and manufacturing method for suppressing surface diffusion of trench material | Physics | 12 | Active |
| US7687157B2 | Perpendicular recording media having an exchange-spring structure | Physics | 10 | Active |
| US7363699B2 | Method for manufacturing a magnetic read sensor employing oblique etched underlayers for inducing uniaxial magnetic anisotropy in hard magnetic bias layers | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 10 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.