G11B 2020/1232
Sector, i.e. the minimal addressable physical data unit
Official title: {sector, i.e. the minimal addressable physical data unit}
G11B2020/1232 (Sector, i.e. the minimal addressable physical data unit) appears on 535 US grants and 339 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G11B- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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- Latest grant
- 10 Mar 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Magnetic disk apparatus and method10 Mar 2026US 12,573,426 B2Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Method and magnetic disk apparatus1 Jul 2025US 12,347,456 B1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Magnetic disk drive and data control method13 May 2025US 12,300,270 B2Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Magnetic disk device21 Jan 2025US 12,205,617 B2Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Magnetic disk apparatus and method24 Dec 2024US 12,176,002 B1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Magnetic disk apparatus and method30 Jul 2026US 2026/0221159 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Magnetic disk apparatus and method20 Mar 2025US 2025/0095684 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Magnetic disk drive and data control method13 Feb 2025US 2025/0054517 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Magnetic disk device5 Sep 2024US 2024/0296869 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Magnetic disk device22 Sep 2022US 2022/0301590 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
Most cited
By later US patents
- Sector architecture for fixed block disk drive234US 5,523,903 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 1996
- Disk drive employing read channel IC with common port for data and servo233US 6,278,568 B1Western Digital Corporation · 2001
- Disk drive employing read error tolerant sync mark detection216US 6,411,452 B1Western Digital Technologies, Inc. · 2002
- Disk drive employing state variable trap registers for providing stored servo and user data state variables to sampled-data channel175US 6,178,056 B1Western Digital Corporation · 2001
- Disk drive including a recording surface employing servo zones with banded data zones169US 6,262,857 B1Western Digital Corporation · 2001