William C. Cain
14Patents
10h-index
27Co-inventors
68Inventor score
Filing activity: Sep 29, 1987 → Oct 20, 2004
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US5301079A | Current biased magnetoresistive spin valve sensor | Physics | 74 | Expired |
| US5508867A | Magnetoresistive sensor with flux keepered spin valve configuration | Physics | 62 | Expired |
| US5438470A | Magnetoresistive structure with contiguous junction hard bias design with low lead resistance | Physics | 52 | Expired |
| US5493467A | Yoke spin valve MR read head | Physics | 37 | Expired |
| US6212047A | Hard disk drive with magnetoresistive head and perpendicular media | Physics | 28 | Expired |
| US4800457A | Magnetoresistive sensor element | Physics | 20 | Expired |
| US6320725A | Hard disk drive having ring head with predominantly perpendicular media fields | Physics | 20 | Expired |
| US6198607A | Contact planar magnetoresistive head | Physics | 15 | Expired |
| US6493191B1 | Planar magnetic ring head for contact recording with a rigid disk | Physics | 15 | Expired |
| US7095585B2 | Hard disk drive for perpendicular recording with transducer having submicron gap between pole tips | Physics | 10 | Expired |
| US6008969A | Planar recording head having formed yokes | Physics | 9 | Expired |
| US5966272A | Magnetoresistive read head having an exchange layer | Physics | 8 | Expired |
| US5617278A | Magnetic head structure with reduction of magnetic domain instability | Physics | 6 | Expired |
| US6535361B2 | Contact planar magnetoresistive head | Physics | 5 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.