G11B 20/10388
Control of the read or write heads
Official title: {control of the read or write heads, e.g. tracking errors, defocus or tilt compensation}
G11B20/10388 (Control of the read or write heads) appears on 148 US grants and 111 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G11B- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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- Assignees
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- Latest grant
- 28 Apr 2026
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Disk drive multiplexing read signal and fly height signal to a transmission line72US 8,665,547 B1Western Digital Technologies, Inc. · 2014
- Systems and methods for storage device read/write head malfunction detection57US 8,755,136 B1Western Digital Technologies, Inc. · 2014
- Processing servo data from two or more read transducers co-located on a slider33US 9,087,541 B1Seagate Technology LLC · 2015
- Disk drive calibrating preamp for servo sectors and data sectors23US 8,223,448 B1Western Digital Technologies, Inc. · 2012
- Two-dimensional magnetic recording reader offset estimation22US 9,245,579 B2Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. · 2016