G11B 2007/0009
For carriers having data stored in three dimensions
Official title: {for carriers having data stored in three dimensions, e.g. volume storage}
G11B2007/0009 (For carriers having data stored in three dimensions) appears on 1,639 US grants and 1,806 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G11B- Granted patents
- 1,639
- Published applications
- 1,806
- Assignees
- 249
- Inventors
- 1,845
- Latest grant
- 8 Sep 2026
Filings by year
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| 1981 | 1 | 0 |
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| 2001 | 49 | 28 |
| 2002 | 41 | 86 |
| 2003 | 46 | 73 |
| 2004 | 45 | 94 |
| 2005 | 55 | 175 |
| 2006 | 88 | 193 |
| 2007 | 107 | 214 |
| 2008 | 120 | 241 |
| 2009 | 117 | 178 |
| 2010 | 153 | 166 |
| 2011 | 197 | 133 |
| 2012 | 170 | 89 |
| 2013 | 120 | 46 |
| 2014 | 54 | 34 |
| 2015 | 16 | 14 |
| 2016 | 10 | 11 |
| 2017 | 15 | 6 |
| 2018 | 5 | 3 |
| 2019 | 4 | 3 |
| 2020 | 6 | 3 |
| 2021 | 1 | 3 |
| 2022 | 4 | 4 |
| 2023 | 3 | 1 |
| 2024 | 3 | 5 |
| 2025 | 4 | 2 |
| 2026 | 1 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Phase-modulated optical data storage8 Sep 2026US 12,731,610 B2Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Differential phase voxel symbol determination2 Sep 2025US 12,406,695 B1Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Multidimensional optical storage media having light confinement layers and reading methodology therefor12 Aug 2025US 12,387,753 B1Seagate Technology LLC
- Method of forming birefringent structures in an optical element1 Apr 2025US 12,265,245 B2University of Southampton
- Method and system for writing voxels to a transparent substrate1 Apr 2025US 12,266,391 B2Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Super-resolution three-dimensional optical storage focusing servo device and method thereof23 Jul 2026US 2026/0212888 A1Shanghai Institute of Optics And Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Optical information storage medium6 Nov 2025US 2025/0342857 A1
- Phase-modulated optical data storage13 Mar 2025US 2025/0087240 A1Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Read head and methods for reading multilayer optical data storage media7 Nov 2024US 2024/0371068 A1Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Phase-modulated optical data storage3 Oct 2024US 2024/0331730 A1Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method and apparatus for optical imaging with means for controlling the longitudinal range of the sample1,199US 5,321,501 AMassachusetts Institute of Technology · 1994
- Methods and apparatus for forward-directed optical scanning instruments1,184US 6,485,413 B1The General Hospital Corporation · 2002
- Method and apparatus for performing optical measurements using a fiber optic imaging guidewire, catheter or endoscope1,079US 6,134,003 AMassachusetts Institute of Technology · 2000
- Method and apparatus for performing optical measurements1,018US 5,459,570 AMassachusetts Institute of Technology · 1995
- Fiber optic needle probes for optical coherence tomography imaging722US 6,564,087 B1Massachusetts Institute of Technology · 2003