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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7508627 | Method and system for providing perpendicular magnetic recording transducers A method and system for providing a magnetic recording transducer are disclosed. The method and system include providing a metallic underlayer directly on a portion of an insulating layer. The method and system also include forming a perpendicular magnetic recording... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7493688 | Method of manufacturing a magnetic recording transducer A method for providing a magnetic recording transducer is disclosed. The method includes providing a first pole having front and rear portions and a back gap on the rear portion. The method also includes providing an insulator on the first pole. The method includes ... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7478303 | System and method for testing nodes in a network A method and system for testing nodes in a network, where the network includes a plurality of nodes and at least one bus for coupling the plurality of nodes. The system includes a control processor for generating test commands to be sent to at least one node of the ... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7458060 | Yield-limiting design-rules-compliant pattern library generation and layout inspection A method and system are provided for analyzing process window compliance of an integrated circuit design. Aspects of the present invention include identifying layout pattern configurations that have process windows that fail to meet respective local performance spec... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7444740 | Damascene process for fabricating poles in recording heads A method and system for manufacturing a pole for a magnetic recording head. The method and system include providing an insulator and fabricating at least one hard mask on the insulator. The at least one hard mask has an aperture therein. The method and system also i... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7443632 | Magnetic head with stitched top pole layer and single layer coil or solenoidal coil A magnetic head is disclosed that has first and second substantially flat soft magnetic pole layers that are magnetically coupled together in a backgap region that is removed from the medium-facing surface; a soft magnetic pedestal having a leading edge and a traili... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7419891 | Method and system for providing a smaller critical dimension magnetic element utilizing a single layer mask The method and system for providing a magnetic element are disclosed. The method and system include providing a magnetic element stack that includes a plurality of layers and depositing a stop layer on the magnetic element stack. The method and system also include p... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7417832 | Magnetoresistive structure having a novel specular and filter layer combination A method and system for providing a magnetoresistive structure is disclosed. The magnetoresistive structure includes a pinned layer, a nonmagnetic spacer layer, a free layer, a filter layer, a specular layer, a barrier layer, and a capping layer. The nonmagnetic spa... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7360133 | Method for creating a JTAG tap controller in a slice for use during custom instance creation to avoid the need of a boundary scan synthesis tool A method and system is provided for creating a tap controller in a slice for use during custom instance creation to avoid the need of a boundary scan synthesis tool. Aspects of the present invention include during slice creation, using a software tool to create a te... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7349179 | Write head for improved manufacturability larger write field and reduced adjacent track erasure A magnetic write head provides a significant write field and minimal adjacent track erasure, and lends itself to improved manufacturability. The write head includes a pedestal throat height that defines a bottom pole, P1, and that is substantially recessed fr... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7333295 | Magnetic recording head with high saturation magnetic flux density CoNiFe thin film composition A method and system for plating CoNiFe is disclosed. The method and system include providing a plating solution including hydroxymethyl-p-tolylsulfone and plating the CoNiFe film on a substrate in the plating solution. The plating solution is configured to provide a... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7324736 | Intelligent recording control system A method and system for synchronizing recording of data transferred from a video source device to a recording device is disclosed. The method and system include analyzing an input signal from the source device based on a set of rules. In response to detecting a sour... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7318947 | Method and apparatus for controlling magnetostriction in a spin valve sensor A method and system for providing a magnetic element are described. The method and system include providing a pinned layer, fabricating a metallic spacer layer and oxidizing a portion of the spacer layer in an environment including at least oxygen and a gas inert wi... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7310204 | Inductive writer design for using a soft magnetic pedestal having a high magnetic saturation layer A magnetic head for writing information on a relatively-moving medium has a pair of substantially flat soft magnetic pole layers separated by a pair of coil layers. A soft magnetic pedestal adjoins the leading pole layer adjacent to a medium-facing surface and is sp... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7307818 | Method and system for providing a stable spin filter A method and system for providing a spin filter is disclosed. The method and system include providing a pinned layer, a free layer, and a conductive nonmagnetic spacer layer between the pinned layer and the free layer. The method and system also include providing a ... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7307814 | Pedestal defined zero throat writer having a recessed pedestal A method and system for providing a pedestal defined zero throat write head is disclosed. The method and system include providing a first pole having a pedestal, providing a gap and providing a second pole. The first pole has a pedestal. The gap separates the pedest... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7296339 | Method for manufacturing a perpendicular magnetic recording head A method and system for manufacturing a perpendicular magnetic recording head is disclosed. The method and system include providing a chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) uniformity structure having an aperture therein and forming a perpendicular magnetic recordi... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7292409 | Magnetic head with thin trailing pedestal layer A magnetic head for a disk drive is disclosed that has a first soft magnetic pole layer disposed in the head adjacent to a medium-facing surface and extending perpendicular to the medium-facing surface; a second soft magnetic pole layer disposed closer than the firs... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7289303 | Spin valve sensors having synthetic antiferromagnet for longitudinal bias Magnetoresistive (MR) sensors are disclosed having mechanisms for reducing edge effects such as Barkhausen noise. The sensors include a pinned layer and a free layer with an exchange coupling layer adjoining the free layer, and a ferromagnetic layer having a fixed m... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7286329 | GMR sensor with shallow contiguous junction and bias layers aligned with free sensor layers A magnetic sensor is disclosed having a shallow contiguous junction. Such a sensor is can greatly increase yield for mass-produced heads, especially for large wafers. The magnetic bias layers can be aligned with a free layer of the sensor, improving performance. Mil... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7280325 | Ferromagnetic structure including a first section separated from a ferromagnetic layer by an electrically conductive nonmagnetic spacer and a second section elongated relative to the first section in at least one dimension A CPP magnetic sensor is disclosed with a ferromagnetic layer that extends in a first direction a first distance; a nonferromagnetic spacer layer that adjoins the ferromagnetic layer and extends in the first direction a second distance that is substantially equal to... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7248433 | Magnetic head with stitched top pole layer and single layer coil or solenoidal coil A magnetic head is disclosed that has first and second substantially flat soft magnetic pole layers that are magnetically coupled together in a backgap region that is removed from the medium-facing surface; a soft magnetic pedestal having a leading edge and a traili... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7248432 | Inductive writer design for using a soft magnetic pedestal having a high magnetic saturation layer A magnetic head for writing information on a relatively-moving medium has a pair of substantially flat soft magnetic pole layers separated by a pair of coil layers. A soft magnetic pedestal adjoins the leading pole layer adjacent to a medium-facing surface and is sp... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7237218 | Optimizing dynamic power characteristics of an integrated circuit chip The present invention optimizes the dynamic power characteristics of an integrated circuit (IC) chip. The IC chip includes a plurality of layers, wherein at least one of the layers is a power mesh layer that provides power to the IC chip, and includes a ground (Vss)... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7222236 | Evidencing indicia of value using secret key cryptography A method and system for dispensing and evidencing indicia by an indicia generating device is disclosed in a system having a plurality of indicia generating devices that have been divided into n groups. Each of the indicia generating devices generates and prints indi... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7211339 | Highly conductive lead adjoining MR stripe and extending beyond stripe height at junction Magnetoresistive (MR) sensors are disclosed that have leads with reduced resistance, improving the signal-to-noise ratio of the sensors. The leads have broad layers of highly conductive material for connection to MR structures, as opposed to thin wires of highly con... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7199975 | Magnetic head for perpendicular recording with hard bias structure for write pole tip A magnetic head for writing information on a relatively-moving medium is disclosed, the head having a leading end, a trailing end and a medium-facing surface, the head comprising: a soft magnetic write pole that terminates in a pole tip that is disposed adjacent to ... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7188241 | Protecting software from unauthorized use by applying machine-dependent modifications to code modules A method and system for providing anti-piracy protection to a software application on a server connected to a target machine over a network is described. The method includes providing a server with a server application for modifying the application software based on... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7168375 | Air-pruning tray/container matrix transfer and transplanting system and methods A system for transferring and transplanting plants from a plant supply tray includes a first table having a plurality of matrix openings for holding the plant supply tray, where one or more plants are removed from the tray via the matrix openings. The first table al... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7117475 | Method and system for utilizing an isofocal contour to perform optical and process corrections A method and system for performing optical proximity correction (OPC) on an integrated circuit (IC) mask design is disclosed. The system and method of the present invention includes identifying a feature in the IC mask design, generating an isofocal contour for the ... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7098528 | Embedded redistribution interposer for footprint compatible chip package conversion An embedded redistribution interposer is disclosed for providing footprint compatible chip package migration in which a die designed to be mounted into chip package is originally implemented using a first type of silicon platform and is subsequently redesigned for a... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7082583 | Method for reducing a parasitic graph in moment computation in VLSI systems An improved method for interconnect delay analysis for VLSI circuits reduces a parasitic graph for moment computation by eliminating one or more nodes in the graph. The elimination process is performed based upon the degree of the nodes. By eliminating nodes in this... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7082067 | Circuit for verifying the write speed of SRAM cells A circuit for measuring the performance of a memory cell. The circuit includes a ring oscillator, which includes a plurality of memory cells. The performance of the memory cell can be determined from an oscillation frequency of the ring oscillator. The circuit accur... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7075179 | System for implementing a configurable integrated circuit The present invention provides a system for implementing a configurable integrated circuit (IC). Aspects of the invention include an IC die; a plurality of input/outputs (I/Os) coupled to the IC die; and a plurality power planes coupled to the IC die for providing p... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7032240 | Portable authorization device for authorizing use of protected information and associated method An authorization system and associated method for selectively authorizing a host system to use one or more items of protected information associated with the host system. The authorization system includes a portable authorization device that is removably couplable t... | 04/18/2006 |
