G11B 2007/0013
For carriers having multiple discrete layers
Official title: {for carriers having multiple discrete layers}
G11B2007/0013 (For carriers having multiple discrete layers) appears on 1,536 US grants and 1,674 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G11B- Granted patents
- 1,536
- Published applications
- 1,674
- Assignees
- 224
- Inventors
- 1,682
- Latest grant
- 8 Sep 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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By later US patents
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