G11B 20/1037
Based on hard decisions
Official title: {based on hard decisions, e.g. by evaluating bit error rates before or after ECC decoding}
G11B20/1037 (Based on hard decisions) appears on 39 US grants and 31 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G11B- Granted patents
- 39
- Published applications
- 31
- Assignees
- 27
- Inventors
- 87
- Latest grant
- 14 Oct 2025
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001.
Recent patents
- ML assisted dynamic decoding gear selection14 Oct 2025US 12,444,439 B2SanDisk Technologies LLC
- Header decoding mechanism for tape storage23 Apr 2024US 11,967,342 B2International Business Machines Corporation
- Data storage device adjusting refresh monitor based on a learning based feedback control3 Oct 2023US 11,775,366 B2Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Reader instability detection and recovery28 Sep 2021US 11,133,032 B1Seagate Technology LLC
- Method of setting upper limit value of number of write times and magnetic disk device28 Jan 2020US 10,546,601 B1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Ml assisted dynamic decoding gear selection25 Jul 2024US 2024/0249749 A1Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Header decoding mechanism for tape storage14 Mar 2024US 2024/0087604 A1International Business Machines Corporation
- Data Storage Device Adjusting Refresh Monitor Based On A Learning Based Feedback Control22 Sep 2022US 2022/0301588 A1Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Data management method for magnetic disk device and magnetic disk device10 Mar 2022US 2022/0076700 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Magnetic disk device and method for optimizing recording current19 Mar 2020US 2020/0090698 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
Most cited
By later US patents
- Averaging signals to improve signal interpretation27US 8,161,361 B1Marvell International Ltd. · 2012
- Read channel processor22US 7,917,563 B1Link—A—Media Devices Corporation · 2011
- High-density information recording/reproducing method13US 5,835,469 AHitachi, Ltd. · 1998
- High-density information recording/reproducing method9US 5,886,969 AHitachi, Ltd. · 1999
- Timing recovery detector7US 8,116,024 B2Seagate Technology LLC · 2012