G11B 2020/1238
Track, i.e. the entire a spirally or concentrically arranged path on which
Official title: {track, i.e. the entire a spirally or concentrically arranged path on which the recording marks are located}
G11B2020/1238 (Track, i.e. the entire a spirally or concentrically arranged path on which) appears on 535 US grants and 544 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G11B- Granted patents
- 535
- Published applications
- 544
- Assignees
- 104
- Inventors
- 608
- Latest grant
- 18 Aug 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1997 | 2 | 0 |
| 1998 | 4 | 0 |
| 1999 | 2 | 0 |
| 2000 | 13 | 0 |
| 2001 | 11 | 9 |
| 2002 | 11 | 20 |
| 2003 | 10 | 31 |
| 2004 | 20 | 27 |
| 2005 | 18 | 40 |
| 2006 | 38 | 39 |
| 2007 | 37 | 79 |
| 2008 | 49 | 63 |
| 2009 | 32 | 33 |
| 2010 | 23 | 14 |
| 2011 | 25 | 14 |
| 2012 | 21 | 14 |
| 2013 | 18 | 12 |
| 2014 | 19 | 7 |
| 2015 | 12 | 16 |
| 2016 | 29 | 34 |
| 2017 | 39 | 26 |
| 2018 | 28 | 18 |
| 2019 | 26 | 16 |
| 2020 | 16 | 14 |
| 2021 | 13 | 5 |
| 2022 | 2 | 3 |
| 2023 | 2 | 1 |
| 2024 | 2 | 0 |
| 2025 | 6 | 6 |
| 2026 | 7 | 3 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Magnetic disk device and method18 Aug 2026US 12,711,984 B2Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Staggered bits magnetic recording21 Jul 2026US 12,688,865 B2Seagate Technology LLC
- Magnetic disk device26 May 2026US 12,640,166 B2Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Sector sliding in shingled magnetic recording hard disk drive10 Feb 2026US 12,548,596 B2Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Magnetic disk device27 Jan 2026US 12,537,027 B1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Magnetic disk device and method18 Jun 2026US 2026/0171109 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Magnetic disk device30 Apr 2026US 2026/0120713 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Magnetic disk device12 Mar 2026US 2026/0072789 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Disk device18 Sep 2025US 2025/0292797 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Single track isolation in staggered bits magnetic recording14 Aug 2025US 2025/0259646 A1Seagate Technology LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Optical recording medium, data recording method for rewritable-type phase change type optical disc, data erase method for rewritable compact disc, data erase method for rewritable phase change type recording medium, read only data erase method, and recording/readout apparatus121US 6,671,249 B2Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation · 2003
- Multichannel digital recording system with multi-user detection118US 6,826,140 B2BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. · 2004
- Method for minimizing adjacent track data loss during a write operation in a disk drive116US 6,462,896 B1Western Digital Technologies, Inc. · 2002
- Optical disk using land and groove tracks60US 5,648,954 AMatsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. · 1997
- Disk drive with enhanced storage capacity increase ratio53US 7,486,460 B2Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands B. V. · 2009