Lance E. Stover
40Patents
15h-index
68Co-inventors
84Inventor score
Filing activity: Dec 5, 1990 → Aug 1, 2013
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.