G11B 2020/1281
Servo information
Official title: {Servo information}
G11B2020/1281 (Servo information) appears on 365 US grants and 204 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G11B- Granted patents
- 365
- Published applications
- 204
- Assignees
- 91
- Inventors
- 582
- Latest grant
- 10 Mar 2026
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| 2026 | 1 | 1 |
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
- Multi-revolution hard disk drives with reduced servo overhead2 Dec 2025US 12,488,807 B2Seagate Technology LLC
- Magnetic disk device20 May 2025US 12,308,055 B2Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Magnetic disk apparatus and method24 Dec 2024US 12,176,002 B1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Servo pattern recording method, servo pattern recording apparatus, method of producing tape-like magnetic recording medium, tape-like magnetic recording medium, and servo write head5 Nov 2024US 12,136,437 B2Sony Group Corporation
- Magnetic disk apparatus and method30 Jul 2026US 2026/0221159 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Multi-revolution hard disk drives with reduced servo overhead27 Nov 2025US 2025/0364008 A1Seagate Technology LLC
- Magnetic disk apparatus and method20 Mar 2025US 2025/0095684 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Magnetic disk device and method19 Sep 2024US 2024/0312485 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Servo pattern recording method, servo pattern recording apparatus, method of producing tape-like magnetic recording medium, tape-like magnetic recording medium, and servo write head9 May 2024US 2024/0153535 A1Sony Group Corporation
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
- Embedded servo banded format for magnetic disks for use with a data processing system209US 5,278,703 ADigital Equipment Corporation · 1994
- 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