G11B 19/02
Control of operating function
Official title: Control of operating function, e.g. switching from recording to reproducing
G11B19/02 (Control of operating function) appears on 6,465 US grants and 4,206 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G11B- Granted patents
- 6,465
- Published applications
- 4,206
- Assignees
- 890
- Inventors
- 8,973
- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
Filings by year
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| 1976 | 8 | 0 |
| 1977 | 11 | 0 |
| 1978 | 16 | 0 |
| 1979 | 4 | 0 |
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| 1981 | 13 | 0 |
| 1982 | 18 | 0 |
| 1983 | 19 | 0 |
| 1984 | 21 | 0 |
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| 1997 | 225 | 0 |
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| 1999 | 263 | 0 |
| 2000 | 319 | 0 |
| 2001 | 261 | 140 |
| 2002 | 233 | 381 |
| 2003 | 245 | 284 |
| 2004 | 224 | 366 |
| 2005 | 169 | 379 |
| 2006 | 287 | 436 |
| 2007 | 255 | 384 |
| 2008 | 260 | 368 |
| 2009 | 255 | 286 |
| 2010 | 292 | 238 |
| 2011 | 406 | 272 |
| 2012 | 232 | 124 |
| 2013 | 161 | 101 |
| 2014 | 173 | 85 |
| 2015 | 133 | 79 |
| 2016 | 81 | 48 |
| 2017 | 62 | 45 |
| 2018 | 64 | 25 |
| 2019 | 40 | 33 |
| 2020 | 47 | 24 |
| 2021 | 25 | 16 |
| 2022 | 22 | 18 |
| 2023 | 16 | 21 |
| 2024 | 18 | 19 |
| 2025 | 20 | 19 |
| 2026 | 20 | 15 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- G11B 19/04Arrangements for preventing, inhibiting, or warning against double recording on the same2,750
- G11B 19/12By sensing distinguishing features of or on records1,713
- G11B 19/022Control panels615
- G11B 19/06By counting or timing of machine operations253
- G11B 19/10By sensing presence or absence of record in accessible stored position or220
- G11B 19/16Manual control132
- G11B 19/027Remotely controlled85
- G11B 19/14By sensing movement or position of head76
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