Inventor · Naperville, IL, US

Shaoping Li

90Patents
25h-index
111Co-inventors
87Inventor score

Filing activity: Apr 25, 2000 → May 24, 2018

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6731473B2 Dual pseudo spin valve heads Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 231 Expired
US8139301B1 Disk drive comprising a dual read element and delay circuitry to improve read signal Physics 207 Active
US8400731B1 Write head with variable side shield gaps Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 168 Active
US8194366B1 TMR read head structures with differential stripe heights Electricity 157 Active
US8451563B1 Method for providing a side shield for a magnetic recording transducer using an air bridge Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 157 Active
US8514506B1 Disk drive comprising a dual read element and delay circuitry to improve read signal Physics 156 Active
US8599520B1 Method and system for providing a read transducer having an adaptive read sensor track width Physics 151 Active
US8203800B2 Servo design in data storage media Physics 149 Active
US8077435B1 Current perpendicular-to-plane read sensor with back shield Physics 149 Active
US8792208B1 Method for providing side shields having non-conformal regions for a magnetic recording transducer Physics 147 Active
US8797686B1 Magnetic recording transducer with short effective throat height and method of fabrication Physics 145 Active
US7724469B2 High frequency field assisted write device Physics 99 Active
US8625224B1 Characterizing magnetic recording parameters of a disk drive by evaluating track profile of dual microtracks Physics 74 Active
US7755861B1 Method and system for providing a magnetic recording media Physics 72 Active
US8717695B1 Characterizing head parameters of a disk drive by evaluating track profile of an overwritten track Physics 63 Active
US8000128B2 Structures for resistive random access memory cells Physics 62 Active
US7436632B2 Differential/dual CPP recording head Physics 54 Expired
US6641935B1 Perpendicular recording media with soft magnetic superlattice underlayer Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 47 Expired
US8891207B1 Connection schemes for a multiple sensor array usable in two-dimensional magnetic recording Physics 43 Active
US8339736B2 Wire-assisted magnetic write device with low power consumption Physics 42 Active
US6424561B1 MRAM architecture using offset bits for increased write selectivity Electricity 40 Expired
US7201977B2 Anti-ferromagnetically coupled granular-continuous magnetic recording media Physics 34 Expired
US7102854B2 Transducing head with reduced side writing Physics 31 Expired
US6392922B1 Passivated magneto-resistive bit structure and passivation method therefor Electricity 31 Expired
US6806546B2 Passivated magneto-resistive bit structure Electricity 29 Expired

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