G11B 5/3983
With current confined paths in the spacer layer
Official title: {with current confined paths in the spacer layer}
G11B5/3983 (With current confined paths in the spacer layer) appears on 52 US grants and 58 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G11B- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 58
- Assignees
- 14
- Inventors
- 93
- Latest grant
- 17 Jun 2025
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Method and system for providing a magnetic element having a current confined layer153US 7,672,086 B1Western Digital (Fremont), LLC · 2010
- Method for fabricating a spacer layer for a magnetoresistive element150US 7,595,967 B1Western Digital (Fremont), LLC · 2009
- Magnetic recording apparatus having magnetic flux control part and magnetic recording head having magnetic flux control part82US 10,236,021 B2Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba · 2019
- Magnetoresistive effect element and manufacturing method thereof55US 8,048,492 B2Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba · 2011
- Magnetoresistance effect element, magnetic head, magnetic reproducing apparatus, and magnetic memory32US 7,301,733 B1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba · 2007