Inventor · Fremont, CA, US

Kochan Ju

140Patents
26h-index
71Co-inventors
93Inventor score

Filing activity: Aug 25, 1980 → Mar 20, 2015

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
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
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
US5652687A Planarized thin film magnetic write head with submicron trackwidth Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 100 Expired
US5802700A Method of making a planarized thin film magnetic write head with submicron trackwidth Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 98 Expired
US6292336A Giant magnetoresistive (GMR) sensor element with enhanced magnetoresistive (MR) coefficient Physics 96 Expired
US5285340A Thin film magnetic head with conformable pole tips Physics 72 Expired
US6998150B2 Method of adjusting CoFe free layer magnetostriction Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 72 Expired
US5079663A Magnetoresistive sensor with track following capability Physics 57 Expired
US5719730A Low fringe-field and narrow write-track magneto-resistive (MR) magnetic read-write head Physics 56 Expired
US5452165A Close packed magnetic head linear array Physics 50 Expired
US9337415B1 Perpendicular spin transfer torque (STT) memory cell with double MgO interface and CoFeB layer for enhancement of perpendicular magnetic anisotropy Electricity 46 Active
US5285339A Magnetoresistive read transducer having improved bias profile Physics 43 Expired
US6770382B1 GMR configuration with enhanced spin filtering Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 43 Expired
US6322640A Multiple thermal annealing method for forming antiferromagnetic exchange biased magnetoresistive (MR) sensor element Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 43 Expired
US7285836B2 Magnetic random access memory with stacked memory cells having oppositely-directed hard-axis biasing Electricity 41 Expired
US5684658A High track density dual stripe magnetoresistive (DSMR) head Physics 40 Expired
US5843521A Photoresist frame plated magnetic transducer pole layer employing high magnetic permeability seed layer Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 36 Expired
US6103136A Method for forming a soft adjacent layer (SAL) magnetoresistive (MR) sensor element with transversely magnetically biased soft adjacent layer (SAL) Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 35 Expired
US7042682B2 Fully shielded perpendicular recoding writer Physics 34 Expired
US5282308A Thin film planarization process for fabricating magnetic heads employing a stitched pole structure Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 32 Expired
US7477491B2 GMR device having an improved free layer Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 30 Active
US6449131B2 Canted longitudinal patterned exchange biased dual-stripe magnetoresistive (DSMR) sensor element and method for fabrication thereof Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 29 Expired
US7453720B2 Magnetic random access memory with stacked toggle memory cells having oppositely-directed easy-axis biasing Electricity 28 Expired
US6937497B1 Magnetic random access memory with stacked toggle memory cells Physics 27 Expired
US6729014B2 Magnetic assist read track-width definition for a lead overlay top spin-valve GMR head Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 27 Expired

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