Inventor · Eden Prairie, MN, US

Lance E. Stover

40Patents
15h-index
68Co-inventors
84Inventor score

Filing activity: Dec 5, 1990 → Aug 1, 2013

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US8829330B2 Highly efficient solar arrays Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 63 Active
US6975472B2 Head with heating element and control regime therefor Physics 49 Expired
US7068457B2 System and method for electrostatic fly height control Physics 41 Expired
US5722155A Machining guide method for magnetic recording reproduce heads Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 39 Expired
US5198948A Shielded servo heads with improved passive noise cancellation Physics 31 Expired
US5831797A Slider with mesa for optical disc data storage system Physics 25 Expired
US5816890A Electrical lap guide wiring configuration Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 24 Expired
US5755612A Small foot machining guide for recording heads Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 24 Expired
US6047224A Machining guide for magnetic recording reproduce heads Physics 23 Expired
US7929248B2 Top bond pad for transducing head interconnect Physics 22 Active
US5742995A Method to predict an accurate MR sensor dimension when viewed from abs Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 21 Expired
US6603639B1 Slider for disc storage system Physics 19 Expired
US6003361A System for predicting accurate MR sensor height Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 16 Expired
US6359754B1 Increased mechanical spacing through localized continuous carbon overcoat Physics 16 Expired
US7897955B2 Programmable resistive memory cell with filament placement structure Electricity 15 Active
US6534425B1 Mask design and method for controlled profile fabrication Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 15 Expired
US8097870B2 Memory cell with alignment structure Physics 13 Active
US6529347B2 Disc drive slider having textured pads Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 10 Expired
US7064933B2 Structures for pole-tip actuation Physics 10 Expired
US8351158B2 Top bond pad for transducing head interconnect Physics 9 Active
US6535353B2 Capped polymeric load/unload pads Physics 9 Expired
US6870707B1 Disc head slider having vertically contoured features and method of fabricating vertically contoured features on a slider Physics 8 Expired
US5461528A Self bucking servo transducer Physics 8 Expired
US6650519B1 ESD protection by a high-to-low resistance shunt Physics 7 Expired
US6366429B1 Patterned and directional selective roughening of a slider air-bearing surface Physics 6 Expired

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