G11B 15/682
With fixed magazines having fixed cassette storage cells
Official title: {with fixed magazines having fixed cassette storage cells, e.g. in racks}
G11B15/682 (With fixed magazines having fixed cassette storage cells) appears on 887 US grants and 515 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G11B- Granted patents
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- 515
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| 2026 | 3 | 2 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Camera-guided retrieval assembly for use within media library8 Sep 2026US 12,731,612 B2Quantum Corporation
- Retrieval assembly with integrated latch deactivator for use within media library25 Aug 2026US 12,718,844 B2Quantum Corporation
- Removable robot for automated data storage library31 Mar 2026US 12,592,254 B2International Business Machines Corporation
- Tape drive cleaning device18 Nov 2025US 12,475,927 B1International Business Machines Corporation
- Magnetic tape cartridges package8 Apr 2025US 12,272,378 B2FUJIFILM Corporation
- High-capacity media library9 Apr 2026US 2026/0100201 A1Quantum Corporation
- Retrieval assembly with integrated latch deactivator for use within media library12 Feb 2026US 2026/0045275 A1Quantum Corporation
- Tape drive cleaning device20 Nov 2025US 2025/0356880 A1International Business Machines Corporation
- Conveyor-positioner system for optical data reader2 Oct 2025US 2025/0308556 A1Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Camera-guided retrieval assembly for use within media library28 Aug 2025US 2025/0273241 A1Quantum Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- System for random access to an audio video data library with independent selection and display at each of a plurality of remote locations499US 4,920,432 A1990
- Cartridge transferring robot for library apparatus340US 6,022,180 AFujitsu Limited · 2000
- Method and apparatus for vending278US 4,812,629 ATerm-Tronics, Incorporated · 1989
- On-the-fly cataloging of library cell contents in an automated robotic tape library152US 5,323,327 AStorage Technology Corporation · 1994
- Apparatus and method for retrieving data related to a data cartridge in a media storage system132US 6,663,003 B2Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L. P. · 2003