G06F 3/0682
Tape device
Official title: {Tape device}
G06F3/0682 (Tape device) appears on 650 US grants and 485 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 650
- Published applications
- 485
- Assignees
- 136
- Inventors
- 815
- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
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| 2001 | 17 | 1 |
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| 2003 | 15 | 19 |
| 2004 | 12 | 10 |
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| 2023 | 20 | 21 |
| 2024 | 17 | 10 |
| 2025 | 9 | 3 |
| 2026 | 2 | 2 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Data access method and system22 Sep 2026US 12,743,228 B2Huawei Cloud Computing Technologies Co., Ltd.
- Narrowing reposition search area in a tape directory region28 Apr 2026US 12,613,635 B1International Business Machines Corporation
- System and method for importing and exporting data between tapes to cloud storage30 Sep 2025US 12,430,054 B2BMC Software, Inc.
- Removable media based object store16 Sep 2025US 12,417,015 B2Quantum Corporation
- Tape drive repositioning16 Sep 2025US 12,417,046 B2International Business Machines Corporation
- Cloud storage for excp-based mainframe applications28 May 2026US 2026/0147506 A1BMC Software, Inc.
- Systems and methods for moveable media drives for use in a media library9 Apr 2026US 2026/0099268 A1Quantum Corporation
- Aggregated control of removable digital storage media using a triplex data structuring system20 Nov 2025US 2025/0355599 A1Echoleaf Systems, Inc.
- Data Access Method and System19 Jun 2025US 2025/0199715 A1Huawei Cloud Computing Technologies Co., Ltd.
- Tape drive repositioning5 Jun 2025US 2025/0181261 A1International Business Machines Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- System for storing data in backup tape device1,347US 5,212,772 AGigatrend Incorporated · 1993
- System and method for allocating storage in a fragmented storage space344US 5,802,599 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 1998
- Consumer electronics equipment combination consisting of a television receiver and of a video recording and/or reproducing apparatus303US 4,621,259 AInternational Standard Electric Corporation · 1986
- System and method to guarantee overwrite of expired data in a virtual tape server293US 6,983,351 B2International Business Machines Corporation · 2006
- System and method for storing and retrieving files for archival purposes190US 5,485,606 AConner Peripherals, Inc. · 1996