G11B 20/10037
A/d conversion, d/a conversion, sampling, slicing and digital quantisation or adjusting parameters
Official title: {A/D conversion, D/A conversion, sampling, slicing and digital quantisation or adjusting parameters thereof}
G11B20/10037 (A/d conversion, d/a conversion, sampling, slicing and digital quantisation or adjusting parameters) appears on 667 US grants and 375 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G11B- Granted patents
- 667
- Published applications
- 375
- Assignees
- 152
- Inventors
- 760
- Latest grant
- 14 Oct 2025
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| 1987 | 3 | 0 |
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| 1990 | 4 | 0 |
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| 1994 | 7 | 0 |
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| 1998 | 38 | 0 |
| 1999 | 20 | 0 |
| 2000 | 28 | 0 |
| 2001 | 36 | 6 |
| 2002 | 27 | 21 |
| 2003 | 24 | 19 |
| 2004 | 22 | 19 |
| 2005 | 19 | 17 |
| 2006 | 16 | 23 |
| 2007 | 26 | 53 |
| 2008 | 41 | 30 |
| 2009 | 23 | 30 |
| 2010 | 27 | 40 |
| 2011 | 42 | 19 |
| 2012 | 40 | 16 |
| 2013 | 36 | 14 |
| 2014 | 20 | 6 |
| 2015 | 19 | 8 |
| 2016 | 16 | 17 |
| 2017 | 15 | 8 |
| 2018 | 16 | 9 |
| 2019 | 13 | 3 |
| 2020 | 8 | 4 |
| 2021 | 5 | 3 |
| 2022 | 5 | 3 |
| 2023 | 1 | 3 |
| 2024 | 4 | 3 |
| 2025 | 3 | 0 |
| 2026 | 0 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Channel circuit with asynchronous sampling from an oversampled analog-to-digital converter14 Oct 2025US 12,445,142 B2Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Decision feedback equalization in semiconductor devices20 May 2025US 12,308,049 B2Macronix International Co., Ltd.
- Rotation filter for digital timing recovery in hard disk drive read channel11 Mar 2025US 12,249,349 B1Marvell Asia Pte Ltd
- Data read synchronization from phase modulated synchronization fields in a data storage device31 Dec 2024US 12,183,376 B1Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Magnetic recording information processing device and magnetic recording information processing method17 Sep 2024US 12,094,495 B2Nidec Instruments Corporation
- Data storage device with deferred decoding of analog read signals8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311725 A1Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Decision feedback equalization in semiconductor devices26 Dec 2024US 2024/0428822 A1Macronix International Co., Ltd.
- Data Read Synchronization from Phase Modulated Synchronization Fields in a Data Storage Device19 Dec 2024US 2024/0420735 A1Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Channel Circuit with Asynchronous Sampling from an Oversampled Analog-to-Digital Converter21 Mar 2024US 2024/0097696 A1Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Magnetic recording information processing device and magnetic recording information processing method21 Dec 2023US 2023/0410839 A1Nidec Instruments Corporation
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