Inventor · Longmont, CO, US

Richard E. Martin

17Patents

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46Co-inventors

62Inventor score

Filing activity: Jan 23, 2001 → Nov 14, 2019

Most-cited inventions

Patent	Title	Area	Cited by	Status
US8452073B2	Closed-loop process control for electron beam freeform fabrication and deposition processes	Electricity	123	Active
US6765379B1	Method and device for testing disk drive head while directing gas across the head	Physics	11	Expired
US7342736B1	Methods and disk drive that measure head flying height at power-on/off	Physics	10	Active
US9842614B2	Heater design for fly height control	Physics	8	Active
US6920019B2	Device and method for improved stiction reliability in disk drives employing padded sliders	Physics	8	Expired
US9001451B1	Clearance distance verification and control	Physics	7	Active
US8837076B1	In situ sensor based contact detection	Physics	7	Active
US9852754B1	Serpentine seeks during data storage device idle periods	Physics	6	Active
US10204645B2	Heater design with locally decreased resistance area for fly height control	Physics	3	Active
US8804273B1	Head fly height testing and compensation	Physics	3	Active
US7948712B2	Dual thickness carbon overcoat	Physics	2	Active
US9595279B1	Accelerating thermal decay of a harmonic-ratio reference track	Physics	2	Active
US10847180B1	Clearance control using actuation efficiency	Physics	2	Active
US9595278B1	High frequency reference patterns used to determine head-to-media clearance	Physics	2	Active
US7742250B2	Spectral analysis of a position error signal	Physics	2	Active
US9824699B1	Lumped-parameter thermal model of a write transducer for clearance control on magnetic recording device	Physics	1	Active
US11440130B2	Process control of electron beam wire additive manufacturing	Performing Operations; Transporting	0	Active

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