Samuel D. Harkness IV

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Berkeley, CA, US

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Patents Grantslast 30 patents

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Multifocal magnetron design for physical vapor deposition processin...
- Patent number 12,283,470
- Issue date Apr 22, 2025
- Intevac, Inc.
- Samuel D. Harkness
- C23 - COATING METALLIC MATERIAL COATING MATERIAL WITH METALLIC MATERIAL CHEMI...
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Creation of distributed voids in thin films
- Patent number 12,077,851
- Issue date Sep 3, 2024
- Intevac, Inc.
- Terry Bluck
- C23 - COATING METALLIC MATERIAL COATING MATERIAL WITH METALLIC MATERIAL CHEMI...
Information Patent Grant
Multifocal magnetron design for physical vapor deposition processin...
- Patent number 11,456,162
- Issue date Sep 27, 2022
- HIA, Inc.
- Samuel D. Harkness
- C23 - COATING METALLIC MATERIAL COATING MATERIAL WITH METALLIC MATERIAL CHEMI...
Information Patent Grant
System architecture for combined static and pass-by processing
- Patent number 10,752,987
- Issue date Aug 25, 2020
- Intevac, Inc.
- Patrick Leahey
- C23 - COATING METALLIC MATERIAL COATING MATERIAL WITH METALLIC MATERIAL CHEMI...
Information Patent Grant
Apparatus comprising magnetically soft underlayer
- Patent number 10,311,907
- Issue date Jun 4, 2019
- Seagate Technology LLC
- Thomas P. Nolan
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
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System architecture for combined static and pass-by processing
- Patent number 9,914,994
- Issue date Mar 13, 2018
- Intevac, Inc.
- Patrick Leahey
- C23 - COATING METALLIC MATERIAL COATING MATERIAL WITH METALLIC MATERIAL CHEMI...
Information Patent Grant
Apparatus for enhanced physical vapor deposition
- Patent number 9,911,583
- Issue date Mar 6, 2018
- HIA, Inc.
- Samuel D. Harkness
- C23 - COATING METALLIC MATERIAL COATING MATERIAL WITH METALLIC MATERIAL CHEMI...
Information Patent Grant
Method to produce highly transparent hydrogenated carbon protective...
- Patent number 9,896,758
- Issue date Feb 20, 2018
- Intevac, Inc.
- David Fang Wei Chen
- C23 - COATING METALLIC MATERIAL COATING MATERIAL WITH METALLIC MATERIAL CHEMI...
Information Patent Grant
Method to produce highly transparent hydrogenated carbon protective...
- Patent number 9,605,340
- Issue date Mar 28, 2017
- Intevac, Inc.
- David Fang Wei Chen
- C23 - COATING METALLIC MATERIAL COATING MATERIAL WITH METALLIC MATERIAL CHEMI...
Information Patent Grant
Quantum dot-sensitized wide bandgap semiconductor heterojunction ph...
- Patent number 8,975,513
- Issue date Mar 10, 2015
- Seagate Technology LLC
- Samuel D. Harkness
- Y02 - TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMA...
Information Patent Grant
Photovoltaic device with an up-converting quantum dot layer and abs...
- Patent number 8,927,852
- Issue date Jan 6, 2015
- Seagate Technology LLC
- Hans Jürgen Richter
- B82 - NANO-TECHNOLOGY
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Method and manufacture process for exchange decoupled first magneti...
- Patent number 8,697,260
- Issue date Apr 15, 2014
- Seagate Technology LLC
- Zhong Stella Wu
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
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Method to synthesize ordered magnetic alloys at low temperature
- Patent number 8,673,463
- Issue date Mar 18, 2014
- Seagate Technology LLC
- Samuel Dacke Harkness
- C23 - COATING METALLIC MATERIAL COATING MATERIAL WITH METALLIC MATERIAL CHEMI...
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CoPtCr-based bit patterned magnetic media
- Patent number 8,673,466
- Issue date Mar 18, 2014
- Seagate Technology LLC
- Dieter K. Weller
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
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Perpendicular media with dual soft magnetic layers
- Patent number 8,557,408
- Issue date Oct 15, 2013
- Seagate Technology LLC
- Qixu Chen
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Granular magnetic recording media with improved grain segregation a...
- Patent number 7,429,427
- Issue date Sep 30, 2008
- Seagate Technology LLC
- Zhong (Stella) Wu
- C23 - COATING METALLIC MATERIAL COATING MATERIAL WITH METALLIC MATERIAL CHEMI...
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Granular perpendicular media with surface treatment for improved ma...
- Patent number 7,169,488
- Issue date Jan 30, 2007
- Seagate Technology LLC
- Qixu Chen
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
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Perpendicular media with improved corrosion performance
- Patent number 7,105,240
- Issue date Sep 12, 2006
- Seagate Technology LLC
- Zhong (Stella) Wu
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
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Coupling enhancement for medium with anti-ferromagnetic coupling
- Patent number 7,026,010
- Issue date Apr 11, 2006
- Seagate Technology LLC
- Zhong Stella Wu
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
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Niobium alloy seedlayer for magnetic recording media
- Patent number 6,849,326
- Issue date Feb 1, 2005
- Seagate Technology LLC
- Li-Lien Lee
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Coupling enhancement for medium with anti-ferromagnetic coupling
- Patent number 6,846,576
- Issue date Jan 25, 2005
- Seagate Technology LLC
- Zhong Stella Wu
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
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System and method for recording media on textured glass
- Patent number 6,824,896
- Issue date Nov 30, 2004
- Seagate Technology LLC
- Li-Lien Lee
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
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Recording medium with a varying composition underlayer
- Patent number 6,787,251
- Issue date Sep 7, 2004
- Seagate Technology LLC
- Zhong Stella Wu
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Stabilized recording media including coupled discontinuous and cont...
- Patent number 6,777,112
- Issue date Aug 17, 2004
- Seagate Technology LLC
- Erol Girt
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
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Chromium-alloy seedlayers for recording media
- Patent number 6,756,136
- Issue date Jun 29, 2004
- Seagate Technology LLC
- Samuel Dacke Harkness
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
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Magnetic media with high Cr content, non-magnetic CoCrPt intermedia...
- Patent number 6,641,936
- Issue date Nov 4, 2003
- Seagate Technology LLC
- Qixu Chen
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
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Corrosion resistant magnetic thin film media
- Patent number 6,589,676
- Issue date Jul 8, 2003
- Seagate Technology LLC
- Jing Gui
- C23 - COATING METALLIC MATERIAL COATING MATERIAL WITH METALLIC MATERIAL CHEMI...
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CoCrPtTaNbB alloy for magnetic recording medium
- Patent number 6,562,488
- Issue date May 13, 2003
- Seagate Technology LLC
- Qixu (David) Chen
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
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Magnetic recording medium with superparamagnetic underlayer
- Patent number 6,495,252
- Issue date Dec 17, 2002
- Seagate Technology LLC
- Hans J. Richter
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
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Magnetic recording medium with a nialru seedlayer
- Patent number 6,432,562
- Issue date Aug 13, 2002
- Seagate Technology LLC
- Stella Z. Wu
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE

Patents Applicationslast 30 patents

Information Patent Application
SIMULTANEOUS ETCHING OF MULTI-FACETED SUBSTRATES
- Publication number 20250087472
- Publication date Mar 13, 2025
- INTEVAC, INC.
- Samuel D. Harkness
- H01 - BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
Information Patent Application
CYLINDRICAL CATHODE AND CHAMBER USING SAME FOR SPUTTERING
- Publication number 20240258087
- Publication date Aug 1, 2024
- INTEVAC, INC.
- Samuel D. Harkness
- C23 - COATING METALLIC MATERIAL COATING MATERIAL WITH METALLIC MATERIAL CHEMI...
Information Patent Application
LOW INDEX OF REFRACTION THIN FILM WITH HIGH HARDNESS COATING AND ME...
- Publication number 20240201422
- Publication date Jun 20, 2024
- INTEVAC, INC.
- Thomas P. Nolan
- C23 - COATING METALLIC MATERIAL COATING MATERIAL WITH METALLIC MATERIAL CHEMI...
Information Patent Application
STABLE GROUND ANODE FOR THIN FILM PROCESSING
- Publication number 20240194464
- Publication date Jun 13, 2024
- INTEVAC, INC.
- Samuel D. Harkness
- H01 - BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
Information Patent Application
SUBSTRATE CARRIER FOR THIN FILM PROCESSING
- Publication number 20240191342
- Publication date Jun 13, 2024
- INTEVAC, INC.
- Samuel D. Harkness
- C23 - COATING METALLIC MATERIAL COATING MATERIAL WITH METALLIC MATERIAL CHEMI...
Information Patent Application
STABLE GROUND ANODE APERTURE FOR THIN FILM PROCESSING
- Publication number 20240191341
- Publication date Jun 13, 2024
- INTEVAC, INC.
- Samuel D. Harkness
- C23 - COATING METALLIC MATERIAL COATING MATERIAL WITH METALLIC MATERIAL CHEMI...
Information Patent Application
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MAKING THICK-MULTILAYER DIELECTRIC FILMS
- Publication number 20230274920
- Publication date Aug 31, 2023
- INTEVAC, INC.
- Terry Bluck
- H01 - BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
Information Patent Application
HARD SCRATCH AND SCUFF RESISTANT LOW REFLECTIVITY OPTICAL COATINGS
- Publication number 20230176259
- Publication date Jun 8, 2023
- INTEVAC, INC.
- Samuel D. Harkness
- G02 - OPTICS
Information Patent Application
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SCRATCH AND SCUFF RESISTANT LOW REFLECTIVITY...
- Publication number 20230176256
- Publication date Jun 8, 2023
- INTEVAC, INC.
- Samuel D. Harkness
- B29 - WORKING OF PLASTICS WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE, IN GENERAL
Information Patent Application
MULTIFOCAL MAGNETRON DESIGN FOR PHYSICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION PROCESSIN...
- Publication number 20220406582
- Publication date Dec 22, 2022
- HIA, Inc.
- Samuel D. Harkness
- C23 - COATING METALLIC MATERIAL COATING MATERIAL WITH METALLIC MATERIAL CHEMI...
Information Patent Application
CREATION OF DISTRIBUTED VOIDS IN THIN FILMS
- Publication number 20210355579
- Publication date Nov 18, 2021
- INTEVAC, INC.
- Terry Bluck
- C23 - COATING METALLIC MATERIAL COATING MATERIAL WITH METALLIC MATERIAL CHEMI...
Information Patent Application
METHOD TO PRODUCE HIGH DENSITY DIAMOND LIKE CARBON THIN FILMS
- Publication number 20200354826
- Publication date Nov 12, 2020
- INTEVAC, INC.
- Samuel D. Harkness
- C23 - COATING METALLIC MATERIAL COATING MATERIAL WITH METALLIC MATERIAL CHEMI...
Information Patent Application
MULTIFOCAL MAGNETRON DESIGN FOR PHYSICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION PROCESSIN...
- Publication number 20190180991
- Publication date Jun 13, 2019
- HIA, Inc.
- Samuel D. Harkness
- C23 - COATING METALLIC MATERIAL COATING MATERIAL WITH METALLIC MATERIAL CHEMI...
Information Patent Application
INVERTED MAGNETRON FOR PROCESSING OF THIN FILM MATERIALS
- Publication number 20190043701
- Publication date Feb 7, 2019
- HIA, Inc.
- Samuel D. Harkness
- C23 - COATING METALLIC MATERIAL COATING MATERIAL WITH METALLIC MATERIAL CHEMI...
Information Patent Application
SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE FOR COMBINED STATIC AND PASS-BY PROCESSING
- Publication number 20180171463
- Publication date Jun 21, 2018
- INTEVAC, INC.
- Patrick Leahey
- C23 - COATING METALLIC MATERIAL COATING MATERIAL WITH METALLIC MATERIAL CHEMI...
Information Patent Application
APPARATUS FOR PHYSICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION REACTIVE PROCESSING OF THIN...
- Publication number 20180005806
- Publication date Jan 4, 2018
- HIA, Inc.
- Samuel D. Harkness
- C23 - COATING METALLIC MATERIAL COATING MATERIAL WITH METALLIC MATERIAL CHEMI...
Information Patent Application
METHOD TO PRODUCE HIGHLY TRANSPARENT HYDROGENATED CARBON PROTECTIVE...
- Publication number 20170152592
- Publication date Jun 1, 2017
- INTEVAC, INC.
- David Fang Wei Chen
- C23 - COATING METALLIC MATERIAL COATING MATERIAL WITH METALLIC MATERIAL CHEMI...
Information Patent Application
APPARATUS COMPRISING MAGNETICALLY SOFT UNDERLAYER
- Publication number 20140313615
- Publication date Oct 23, 2014
- SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC
- Thomas P. Nolan
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
CoPtCr-BASED BIT PATTERNED MAGNETIC DEVICE
- Publication number 20140287268
- Publication date Sep 25, 2014
- SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC
- Dieter K. Weller
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
Method and Manufacture Process for Exchange Decoupled First Magneti...
- Publication number 20140178714
- Publication date Jun 26, 2014
- SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC
- Zhong Stella Wu
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
METHOD AND APPARATUS TO PRODUCE HIGH DENSITY OVERCOATS
- Publication number 20140102888
- Publication date Apr 17, 2014
- INTEVAC, INC.
- Samuel D. Harkness
- C23 - COATING METALLIC MATERIAL COATING MATERIAL WITH METALLIC MATERIAL CHEMI...
Information Patent Application
METHOD TO PRODUCE HIGHLY TRANSPARENT HYDROGENATED CARBON PROTECTIVE...
- Publication number 20140008214
- Publication date Jan 9, 2014
- David Fang Wei Chen
- C23 - COATING METALLIC MATERIAL COATING MATERIAL WITH METALLIC MATERIAL CHEMI...
Information Patent Application
SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE FOR COMBINED STATIC AND PASS-BY PROCESSING
- Publication number 20130161183
- Publication date Jun 27, 2013
- INTEVAC, INC.
- Patrick Leahey
- C23 - COATING METALLIC MATERIAL COATING MATERIAL WITH METALLIC MATERIAL CHEMI...
Information Patent Application
X-AMR ASSISTED RECORDING ON HIGH DENSITY BPM MEDIA
- Publication number 20100073809
- Publication date Mar 25, 2010
- Seagate Technology LLC
- Hans Jurgen Richter
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
METHOD TO SYNTHESIZE ORDERED MAGNETIC ALLOYS AT LOW TEMPERATURE
- Publication number 20100055499
- Publication date Mar 4, 2010
- Seagate Technology LLC
- Samuel Dacke Harkness
- C23 - COATING METALLIC MATERIAL COATING MATERIAL WITH METALLIC MATERIAL CHEMI...
Information Patent Application
OXIDIZED CONFORMAL CAPPING LAYER
- Publication number 20100021772
- Publication date Jan 28, 2010
- Seagate Technology LLC
- Samuel Dacke Harkness
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
METHOD AND MANUFACTURE PROCESS FOR EXCHANGE DECOUPLED FIRST MAGNETI...
- Publication number 20100020441
- Publication date Jan 28, 2010
- Seagate Technology LLC
- Zhong Stella Wu
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
Quantum dot sensitized wide bandgap semiconductor photovoltaic devi...
- Publication number 20080216891
- Publication date Sep 11, 2008
- Seagate Technology LLC
- Samuel D. Harkness
- Y02 - TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMA...
Information Patent Application
CoPtCr-based bit patterned magnetic media
- Publication number 20080075978
- Publication date Mar 27, 2008
- Seagate Technology LLC
- Dieter K. Weller
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
Thin sul perpendicular magnetic recording media and recording syste...
- Publication number 20070287031
- Publication date Dec 13, 2007
- Seagate Technology LLC
- Thomas P. Nolan
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE

Samuel D. Harkness IV

Person

Patents Grantslast 30 patents

Multifocal magnetron design for physical vapor deposition processin...

Creation of distributed voids in thin films

Multifocal magnetron design for physical vapor deposition processin...

System architecture for combined static and pass-by processing

Apparatus comprising magnetically soft underlayer

System architecture for combined static and pass-by processing

Apparatus for enhanced physical vapor deposition

Method to produce highly transparent hydrogenated carbon protective...

Method to produce highly transparent hydrogenated carbon protective...

Quantum dot-sensitized wide bandgap semiconductor heterojunction ph...

Photovoltaic device with an up-converting quantum dot layer and abs...

Method and manufacture process for exchange decoupled first magneti...

Method to synthesize ordered magnetic alloys at low temperature

CoPtCr-based bit patterned magnetic media

Perpendicular media with dual soft magnetic layers

Granular magnetic recording media with improved grain segregation a...

Granular perpendicular media with surface treatment for improved ma...

Perpendicular media with improved corrosion performance

Coupling enhancement for medium with anti-ferromagnetic coupling

Niobium alloy seedlayer for magnetic recording media

Coupling enhancement for medium with anti-ferromagnetic coupling

System and method for recording media on textured glass

Recording medium with a varying composition underlayer

Stabilized recording media including coupled discontinuous and cont...

Chromium-alloy seedlayers for recording media

Magnetic media with high Cr content, non-magnetic CoCrPt intermedia...

Corrosion resistant magnetic thin film media

CoCrPtTaNbB alloy for magnetic recording medium

Magnetic recording medium with superparamagnetic underlayer

Magnetic recording medium with a nialru seedlayer

Patents Applicationslast 30 patents

SIMULTANEOUS ETCHING OF MULTI-FACETED SUBSTRATES

CYLINDRICAL CATHODE AND CHAMBER USING SAME FOR SPUTTERING

LOW INDEX OF REFRACTION THIN FILM WITH HIGH HARDNESS COATING AND ME...

STABLE GROUND ANODE FOR THIN FILM PROCESSING

SUBSTRATE CARRIER FOR THIN FILM PROCESSING

STABLE GROUND ANODE APERTURE FOR THIN FILM PROCESSING

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MAKING THICK-MULTILAYER DIELECTRIC FILMS

HARD SCRATCH AND SCUFF RESISTANT LOW REFLECTIVITY OPTICAL COATINGS

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SCRATCH AND SCUFF RESISTANT LOW REFLECTIVITY...

MULTIFOCAL MAGNETRON DESIGN FOR PHYSICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION PROCESSIN...

CREATION OF DISTRIBUTED VOIDS IN THIN FILMS

METHOD TO PRODUCE HIGH DENSITY DIAMOND LIKE CARBON THIN FILMS

MULTIFOCAL MAGNETRON DESIGN FOR PHYSICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION PROCESSIN...

INVERTED MAGNETRON FOR PROCESSING OF THIN FILM MATERIALS

SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE FOR COMBINED STATIC AND PASS-BY PROCESSING

APPARATUS FOR PHYSICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION REACTIVE PROCESSING OF THIN...

METHOD TO PRODUCE HIGHLY TRANSPARENT HYDROGENATED CARBON PROTECTIVE...

APPARATUS COMPRISING MAGNETICALLY SOFT UNDERLAYER

CoPtCr-BASED BIT PATTERNED MAGNETIC DEVICE

Method and Manufacture Process for Exchange Decoupled First Magneti...

METHOD AND APPARATUS TO PRODUCE HIGH DENSITY OVERCOATS

METHOD TO PRODUCE HIGHLY TRANSPARENT HYDROGENATED CARBON PROTECTIVE...

SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE FOR COMBINED STATIC AND PASS-BY PROCESSING

X-AMR ASSISTED RECORDING ON HIGH DENSITY BPM MEDIA

METHOD TO SYNTHESIZE ORDERED MAGNETIC ALLOYS AT LOW TEMPERATURE

OXIDIZED CONFORMAL CAPPING LAYER

METHOD AND MANUFACTURE PROCESS FOR EXCHANGE DECOUPLED FIRST MAGNETI...

Quantum dot sensitized wide bandgap semiconductor photovoltaic devi...

CoPtCr-based bit patterned magnetic media

Thin sul perpendicular magnetic recording media and recording syste...