Y10T 29/49036
Including measuring or testing
Official title: including measuring or testing
Y10T29/49036 (Including measuring or testing) appears on 2,356 US grants and 1,509 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in Y10T- Granted patents
- 2,356
- Published applications
- 1,509
- Assignees
- 253
- Inventors
- 2,454
- Latest grant
- 7 Oct 2025
Filings by year
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| 1976 | 6 | 0 |
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| 1981 | 9 | 0 |
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| 2001 | 99 | 71 |
| 2002 | 92 | 175 |
| 2003 | 149 | 166 |
| 2004 | 166 | 203 |
| 2005 | 150 | 194 |
| 2006 | 191 | 163 |
| 2007 | 178 | 145 |
| 2008 | 164 | 126 |
| 2009 | 114 | 78 |
| 2010 | 106 | 44 |
| 2011 | 108 | 41 |
| 2012 | 107 | 38 |
| 2013 | 86 | 27 |
| 2014 | 46 | 13 |
| 2015 | 29 | 7 |
| 2016 | 18 | 5 |
| 2017 | 3 | 3 |
| 2018 | 5 | 3 |
| 2019 | 5 | 2 |
| 2020 | 4 | 1 |
| 2021 | 3 | 2 |
| 2022 | 4 | 1 |
| 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 2 | 1 |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Electroplating of high damping material for trailing shield in a perpendicular magnetic recording writer7 Oct 2025US 12,437,778 B2Headway Technologies, Inc.
- Electroplating of high damping material for trailing shield in a perpendicular magnetic recording writer7 May 2024US 11,978,488 B1Headway Technologies, Inc.
- Non-local spin valve sensor for high linear density2 Jan 2024US 11,862,208 B1Seagate Technology LLC
- Method of manufacturing electroplated cobalt-platinum films on substrates20 Dec 2022US 11,532,433 B2University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc.
- Manufacturing method for magnetic head for perpendicular magnetic recording including a pair of first side shields and a pair of second side shields8 Nov 2022US 11,495,251 B1Headway Technologies, Inc.
- Electroplating Of High Damping Material For Trailing Shield In A Perpendicular Magnetic Recording Writer17 Oct 2024US 2024/0347072 A1Headway Technologies, Inc.
- Mitigation of contamination of electroplated cobalt-platinum films on substrates1 Sep 2022US 2022/0277896 A1
- Magnetic sensor manufacturing16 Dec 2021US 2021/0389387 A1Seagate Technology LLC
- One or more sliders that include a protective overcoat that extends across the entire air bearing surface4 Nov 2021US 2021/0343310 A1Seagate Technology LLC
- Mitigation of contamination of electroplated cobalt-platinum films on substrates18 Jun 2020US 2020/0194173 A1University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method for providing a perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) head191US 8,015,692 B1Western Digital (Fremont), LLC · 2011
- Damascene process for fabricating poles in recording heads186US 7,444,740 B1Western Digital (Fremont), LLC · 2008
- Magnetic recording head with a side shield structure for controlling side reading of thin film read sensor179US 6,943,993 B2Western Digital (Fremont), LLC · 2005
- Magnetic head with aligned pole tips and pole layers formed of high magnetic moment material175US 6,118,629 ARead-Rite Corporation · 2000
- Perpendicular recording write head having a recessed magnetic adjunct pole and method of making the same175US 6,791,793 B1Western Digital (Fremont), LLC · 2004