Tim Rausch
85Patents
16h-index
103Co-inventors
87Inventor score
Filing activity: May 11, 2000 → Mar 29, 2024
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US6795630B2 | Apparatus and method for producing a small spot of optical energy | Physics | 117 | Expired |
| US6999384B2 | Device with waveguide defined by dielectric in aperture of cross-track portion of electrical conductor for writing data to a recording medium | Physics | 53 | Expired |
| US9607631B2 | Enhanced capacity recording | Physics | 43 | Active |
| US7266268B2 | Diffraction grating | Physics | 41 | Expired |
| US8804272B1 | Clearance sensor and circuitry using adjustable channel parameters | Physics | 34 | Active |
| US9916849B1 | Method and apparatus for detecting and remediating in response to insufficient or excessive HAMR optical power | Physics | 32 | Active |
| US9324362B1 | Post-write scan operations for interlaced magnetic recording | Physics | 32 | Active |
| US7171080B2 | Coupling grating for focusing light within a waveguide for heat assisted magnetic recording | Physics | 31 | Expired |
| US9153272B1 | Characterizing laser output in a HAMR device | Physics | 30 | Active |
| US9418688B1 | System and method for detecting shifting of reader-writer offset in a heat-assisted magnetic recording head | Physics | 30 | Active |
| US9019646B2 | Heat assisted magnetic recording device with pre-heated write element | Physics | 30 | Active |
| US9564157B1 | System and method for detecting reader-writer offset in a heat-assisted magnetic recording head | Physics | 24 | Active |
| US7155732B2 | Heat assisted magnetic recording head and method | Physics | 23 | Expired |
| US7480214B2 | Efficient waveguide coupler for data recording transducer | Physics | 19 | Expired |
| US8339905B2 | Alignment features for heat assisted magnetic recording transducers | Physics | 17 | Active |
| US6594430B1 | Solid immersion lenses for focusing collimated light in the near-field region | Physics | 16 | Expired |
| US7839497B1 | Phase compensator for coupling an electromagnetic wave into an optical condenser | Physics | 15 | Active |
| US8477571B1 | Heat assisted magnetic recording using surface-emitting distributed feedback laser | Physics | 14 | Active |
| US7483229B2 | Optical coupling to data recording transducer | Physics | 14 | Expired |
| US9536550B1 | Health check for read/write head | Physics | 13 | Active |
| US9583135B1 | Laser mode hopping detection method and apparatus for a heat-assisted magnetic recording device | Physics | 13 | Active |
| US7796487B2 | Optical system for data storage devices | Physics | 13 | Active |
| US8149652B2 | Compensating the effects of static head-media spacing variations and nonlinear transition shift in heat assisted magnetic recording | Physics | 12 | Active |
| US9218849B1 | Data loss mitigation in a heat assisted magnetic recording data storage device | Physics | 12 | Active |
| US9653121B1 | Heat-assisted magnetic recording device capable of detecting head malfunction based on different currents of sensors | Physics | 10 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.