Patent Assignment
Reel/Frame 021172/0562
Merger
Recorded: 2008-07-01
Pages: 11
Assignor
KOMAG, INC.
Executed: 2007-09-05
Assignee
WD MEDIA, INC.
1710 AUTOMATION PARKWAY, SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA, 95131
Covered Properties
(81)
Method for Manufacturing a Thin Film Magnetic Recording Medium
Patent:
4,988,578 →
Application:
07/485,797 →
High-Coercivity Thin-Film Recording Medium
Patent:
5,049,451 →
Application:
07/626,193 →
Magnetic Recording Disk Medium Comprisng a Magnetic Thin Film and a Carbon Overcoat Having Surface Nitrogen Atoms, a Specified Carbon Structure, and Oxygen Atoms
Patent:
5,227,211 →
Application:
07/664,932 →
Magnetron Sputter Gun Target Assembly with Distributed Magnetic Field
Patent:
5,174,880 →
Application:
07/740,436 →
Thin-Film Recording Medium with Thin Chromium Underlayer
Patent:
5,744,253 →
Application:
07/964,745 →
Thin Carbon Overcoat and Method of Its Making
Patent:
5,567,512 →
Application:
08/134,216 →
Multilayer Magnetic Medium with Soft Magnetic Interlayer
Patent:
5,738,945 →
Application:
08/168,871 →
Sputtered Carbon Overcoat in a Thin-Film Medium and Sputtering Method
Patent:
5,679,431 →
Application:
08/221,875 →
Multilayered Magnetic Recording Medium with Coercivity Gradient
Patent:
5,834,111 →
Application:
08/252,664 →
Method of Producing a Magnetic Recording Medium
Patent:
5,693,198 →
Application:
08/372,661 →
Magnetic Recording Medium and Method for Its Production
Patent:
5,679,473 →
Application:
08/408,070 →
Lubricant Composition and Method
Patent:
5,587,217 →
Application:
08/497,431 →
Method for Forming a Thin Carbon Overcoat in a Magnetic Recording Medium
Patent:
5,714,044 →
Application:
08/511,729 →
Laser Disk Texturing Apparatus
Patent:
5,595,768 →
Application:
08/552,185 →
Target Assembly for Use in Forming an Overcoat in a Magnetic Recording Medium
Patent:
5,736,020 →
Application:
08/575,163 →
Method for Preparing a Substrate for a Magnetic Disk
Patent:
5,980,997 →
Application:
08/657,222 →
Disc-Handling Apparatus
Patent:
5,938,902 →
Application:
08/692,088 →
Cathode Assembly Having Rotating Magnetic-Field Shunt
Patent:
5,685,959 →
Application:
08/736,980 →
Method for Forming an Improved Magnetic Media Including Sputtering of Selected Oxides or Nitrides in the Magnetic Layer, and Apparatus for Same
Patent:
5,736,013 →
Application:
08/775,987 →
Method of Manufacturing a Thin Film Magnetic Recording Medium Having Low Mrt Value and High Coercivity
Patent:
5,820,963 →
Application:
08/832,028 →
Magnetic Recording Medium Having a Multilayer Magnetic Recording Structure Including a 10-30 Angstrom Co Cr Interlayer
Patent:
6,007,924 →
Application:
08/887,348 →
Substrate for a Magnetic Recording Medium Having Laser Beam Absorption Characteristic and a Magnetic Recording Medium Using the Substrate
Patent:
5,978,189 →
Application:
08/902,478 →
Method of Sputtering Selected Oxides and Nitrides for Forming Magnetic Media
Patent:
5,976,326 →
Application:
08/920,294 →
Colloidal Silica Slurry for Nip Plated Disk Polishing
Patent:
6,149,696 →
Application:
08/965,099 →
Ultra-Thin Nucleation Layer for Magnetic Thin Film Media and the Method for Manufacturing the Same
Patent:
6,150,015 →
Application:
08/984,753 →
Hard Disk Drive Head-Media System Having Reduced Stiction and Low Fly Height
Patent:
6,381,090 →
Application:
09/082,789 →
Slurry Comprising a Ligand or Chelating Agent for Polishing a Surface
Patent:
6,159,076 →
Application:
09/085,764 →
Magnetic Recording Media Having a Crti Underlayer Deposited Under a Substrate Bias
Patent:
6,210,819 →
Application:
09/122,303 →
Calibration Disk Having Discrete Bands of Calibration Bumps
Patent:
6,164,118 →
Application:
09/164,208 →
Longitudinal Recording Medium with a Dual Underlayer
Patent:
6,303,217 →
Application:
09/165,434 →
Method for Drying a Substrate
Patent:
6,216,709 →
Application:
09/186,048 →
Method of Forming a Magnetic Hard Disk with Elliptical Shaped Laser Bumps
Patent:
6,299,947 →
Application:
09/234,448 →
Patterned Laser Zone Texture
Patent:
6,362,452 →
Application:
09/244,704 →
Disk Marking System
Patent:
6,403,919 →
Application:
09/259,987 →
Magnetic Recording Medium
Patent:
6,261,681 →
Application:
09/265,597 →
Method of Sputtering a Carbon Protective Film on a Magnetic Disk with High SP3 Content
Patent:
6,086,730 →
Application:
09/298,107 →
Mechanical Texturing of Glass and Glass-Ceramic Substrates
Patent:
6,248,395 →
Application:
09/316,974 →
Method of Marking Disks
Patent:
6,395,349 →
Application:
09/318,241 →
Method and Apparatus for Inspecting Substrates
Patent:
6,566,674 →
Application:
09/337,709 →
Slurry Composition for Polishing a Glass Ceramic Substrate
Patent:
6,221,119 →
Application:
09/353,247 →
A Circuit and Method for Refreshing Data Recorded at a Density Sufficiently High to Undergo Thermal Degradation
Non-Rotational Dresser for Grinding Stones
Patent:
6,206,765 →
Application:
09/375,166 →
Method for Manufacturing a Data Storage Card
Patent:
6,482,330 →
Application:
09/410,679 →
Burnishing Tape Handling Apparatus and Method
Patent:
6,283,838 →
Application:
09/421,451 →
Spacer Rings to Compensate for Disk Warpage
Patent:
6,381,092 →
Application:
09/480,872 →
Method and Apparatus for Inspecting Substrates
Patent:
6,548,821 →
Application:
09/549,501 →
Magnetic Disk Comprising a First Carbon Overcoat Having a High SP3 Content and a Second Carbon Overcoat Having a Low SP3 Content
Patent:
6,565,719 →
Application:
09/604,490 →
Ultra-Thin Nucleation Layer for Magnetic Thin Film Media and the Method for Manufacturing the Same
Patent:
6,500,567 →
Application:
09/677,644 →
Magnetic Thin Film Recording Media Having Extremely Low Noise and High Thermal Stability
Patent:
6,730,420 →
Application:
09/703,607 →
Disk Carrier
Method and Apparatus for Drying a Substrate
Magnetic Recording Medium
Hard Disk Drive Head-Media System Having Reduced Stiction and Low Fly Height
Magnetic Media with Improved Exchange Coupling
Hard Disk Drive Head-Media System Having Reduced Stiction and Low Fly Height
Lapping a Head While Powered Up to Eliminate Expansion of the Head Due to Heating
Circuit and Method for Refreshing Data Recorded at a Density Sufficiently High to Undergo Thermal Degradation
Disk Alignment Apparatus and Method for Patterned Media Production
Patent:
6,939,120 →
Application:
10/243,380 →
Magnetic Disk Comprising a First Carbon Overcoat Having a High SP3 Content and a Second Carbon Overcoat Having a Low SP3 Content
Texturing of Magnetic Disk Substrates
Perpendicular Magnetic Discrete Track Recording Disk
A Storage Device Including a Center Tapped Write Transducer
Magnetic Recording Disk Having a Safe Zone
Soft Magnetic Film for Perpendicular Recording Disk
Magnetic Head for Proximity Recording
Patent:
7,006,323 →
Application:
10/623,025 →
Circuit and Method for Refreshing Data Recorded at a Density Sufficiently High to Undergo Thermal Degradation
Magnetic Recording Disk Having a Transition Zone
Balance Ring
Patent:
6,778,353 →
Application:
10/712,548 →
Magnetic Disk Comprising a First Carbon Overcoat Having a High SP3 Content and a Second Carbon Overcoat Having a Low SP3 Content
Magnetic Recording Disk Having Dtr Patterned Css Zone
Magnetic Recording Medium Having Novel Underlayer Structure
Method and Apparatus for Polishing a Workpiece
Patent:
7,004,827 →
Application:
10/777,424 →
Press Die Alignment
Magnetic Recording Medium
Balance Ring
Patent:
7,099,112 →
Application:
10/850,137 →
Modulation of Sidewalls of Servo Sectors of a Magnetic Disk and the Resultant Disk
Magnetic Media with Improved Exchange Coupling
Die Set Utilizing Compliant Gasket
Robotic System for Optically Inspecting Workpieces
Test Head for Optically Inspecting Workpieces
Test Head for Optically Inspecting Workpieces Comprising a Lens for Elongating a Laser Spot on the Workpieces
Related Assignments
(4)
Other recorded transfers of the patents in this record — the chain of ownership.
Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Oct 31, 1996
From: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY LTD.
To: ASAHI KOMAG CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 008200/0115 →
Merger
Aug 28, 2007
From: HMT TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
To: KOMAG, INCORPORATED
Reel/Frame 019767/0016 →
Merger
Jul 1, 2008
From: HMT TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
To: KOMAG, INC.
Reel/Frame 021172/0463 →
Change of Name
Sep 19, 2018
From: WD MEDIA, INC
To: WD MEDIA, LLC
Reel/Frame 047112/0758 →