B29D 17/00
Producing carriers of records containing fine grooves or impressions
Official title: Producing carriers of records containing fine grooves or impressions, e.g. disc records for needle playback, cylinder records (recording sound or other information using formed grooves or the equivalent G11B); Producing record discs from master stencils
B29D17/00 (Producing carriers of records containing fine grooves or impressions) appears on 370 US grants and 215 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B29D- Granted patents
- 370
- Published applications
- 215
- Assignees
- 153
- Inventors
- 652
- Latest grant
- 9 Sep 2025
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| 2002 | 19 | 21 |
| 2003 | 9 | 38 |
| 2004 | 20 | 18 |
| 2005 | 10 | 39 |
| 2006 | 19 | 15 |
| 2007 | 14 | 11 |
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| 2009 | 2 | 6 |
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| 2019 | 3 | 0 |
| 2020 | 1 | 3 |
| 2021 | 0 | 3 |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 |
| 2023 | 1 | 3 |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025 | 4 | 3 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Die assembly and method of forming a vinyl record9 Sep 2025US 12,409,620 B1Tk Mold & Engineering, Inc.
- Method for producing gramophone records by injection moulding8 Jul 2025US 12,350,867 B2
- Vinyl record with integrated authenticity11 Feb 2025US 12,223,981 B2Citizen Digital Inc.
- Arrays of integrated analytical devices and methods for production21 Jan 2025US 12,204,142 B2Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc.
- Optical recording medium substrate, optical recording medium, and method of manufacturing optical recording medium substrate8 Oct 2024US 12,112,781 B2Sony Corporation
- Arrays of integrated analytical devices and methods for production25 Dec 2025US 2025/0389888 A1Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc.
- Method for producing gramophone records by injection moulding30 Oct 2025US 2025/0332770 A1
- Vinyl record with integrated authenticity5 Jun 2025US 2025/0182789 A1Citizen Digital Inc.
- Record production devices, systems and methods21 Dec 2023US 2023/0410838 A1Elasticstage Limited
- Vinyl record with integrated authenticity2 Feb 2023US 2023/0032976 A1Citizen Digital Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Multilayer information disc192US 4,450,553 AU. S. Philips Corporation · 1984
- Arrays of integrated analytical devices and methods for production111US 9,372,308 B1Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. · 2016
- Method for producing transparent plastic article90US 4,983,335 AMatsushita Electrical Industrial Co., Ltd. · 1991
- Arrays of integrated analytical devices and methods for production89US 9,658,161 B2Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. · 2017
- Arrays of integrated analytical devices and methods for production74US 10,310,178 B2Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. · 2019