G11B 15/05
By sensing features present on or derived from record carrier or container
Official title: by sensing features present on or derived from record carrier or container (G11B15/16 takes precedence)
G11B15/05 (By sensing features present on or derived from record carrier or container) appears on 1,178 US grants and 234 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G11B- Granted patents
- 1,178
- Published applications
- 234
- Assignees
- 214
- Inventors
- 1,592
- Latest grant
- 5 May 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 14 | 0 |
| 1977 | 23 | 0 |
| 1978 | 13 | 0 |
| 1979 | 17 | 0 |
| 1980 | 21 | 0 |
| 1981 | 10 | 0 |
| 1982 | 23 | 0 |
| 1983 | 28 | 0 |
| 1984 | 11 | 0 |
| 1985 | 30 | 0 |
| 1986 | 29 | 0 |
| 1987 | 24 | 0 |
| 1988 | 30 | 0 |
| 1989 | 39 | 0 |
| 1990 | 28 | 0 |
| 1991 | 28 | 0 |
| 1992 | 28 | 0 |
| 1993 | 41 | 0 |
| 1994 | 57 | 0 |
| 1995 | 49 | 0 |
| 1996 | 47 | 0 |
| 1997 | 54 | 0 |
| 1998 | 62 | 0 |
| 1999 | 62 | 0 |
| 2000 | 73 | 0 |
| 2001 | 57 | 18 |
| 2002 | 33 | 27 |
| 2003 | 32 | 27 |
| 2004 | 26 | 27 |
| 2005 | 26 | 23 |
| 2006 | 24 | 17 |
| 2007 | 15 | 6 |
| 2008 | 17 | 16 |
| 2009 | 7 | 7 |
| 2010 | 12 | 2 |
| 2011 | 3 | 5 |
| 2012 | 6 | 1 |
| 2013 | 6 | 3 |
| 2014 | 7 | 7 |
| 2015 | 6 | 7 |
| 2016 | 12 | 5 |
| 2017 | 4 | 4 |
| 2018 | 4 | 5 |
| 2019 | 6 | 1 |
| 2020 | 6 | 4 |
| 2021 | 7 | 6 |
| 2022 | 7 | 9 |
| 2023 | 6 | 4 |
| 2024 | 4 | 1 |
| 2025 | 1 | 1 |
| 2026 | 3 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Tape drive error recovery procedure selection based on humidity5 May 2026US 12,620,414 B2International Business Machines Corporation
- Extraction of audit trails21 Apr 2026US 12,608,395 B2Unisys Corporation
- Tape reader3 Feb 2026US 12,542,156 B2Tape Ark
- Magnetic tape cartridge, magnetic tape drive, memory, magnetic tape, magnetic tape system, and operation method of magnetic tape drive11 Feb 2025US 12,223,987 B2FUJIFILM Corporation
- Magnetic tape cartridge, magnetic tape drive, magnetic tape system, and method of operating magnetic tape drive5 Nov 2024US 12,136,438 B2FUJIFILM Corporation
- Magnetic disk device and method for controlling magnetic disk device10 Sep 2026US 2026/0268936 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Tape reader2 Jan 2025US 2025/0006224 A1Tape Ark
- Tape drive error recovery procedure selection based on humidity25 Jul 2024US 2024/0249750 A1International Business Machines Corporation
- Magnetic tape cartridge, magnetic tape drive, magnetic tape system, and method of operating magnetic tape drive14 Sep 2023US 2023/0290379 A1FUJIFILM Corporation
- Magnetic tape cartridge, magnetic tape drive, memory, magnetic tape, magnetic tape system, and operation method of magnetic tape drive29 Jun 2023US 2023/0206946 A1FUJIFILM Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Apparatus and method for tracking the playing of VCR programs447US 5,488,409 A1996
- Method and apparatus for controlling a videotape player to automatically scan past recorded commercial messages202US 5,333,091 AArthur D. Little Enterprises, Inc. · 1994
- Apparatus and method for preventing unauthorized copying of video signals201US 5,418,853 ASony Corporation · 1995
- Method for selectively playing back programs recorded on a video tape191US 5,621,579 AIndex Systems, Inc. · 1997
- Enhancing operations of video tape cassette players177US 6,091,884 AIndex Systems, Inc. · 2000