G11B 2020/1291
Wherein the formatting serves a specific purpose
Official title: {wherein the formatting serves a specific purpose}
G11B2020/1291 (Wherein the formatting serves a specific purpose) appears on 724 US grants and 721 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G11B- Granted patents
- 724
- Published applications
- 721
- Assignees
- 135
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- 936
- Latest grant
- 6 Jan 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Disk device6 Jan 2026US 12,518,791 B2Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Method and magnetic disk apparatus1 Jul 2025US 12,347,456 B1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Adjustable sub-regions for shingled magnetic recording10 Jun 2025US 12,327,576 B1Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Variable data interleave sizes on hard drives24 Dec 2024US 12,176,001 B1Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited
- Garbage collection and data storage method and apparatus, and storage system11 Jun 2024US 12,008,263 B2Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
- Magnetic disk device and method of controlling the same10 Sep 2026US 2026/0268937 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Disk device18 Sep 2025US 2025/0292797 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Intelligent region utilization in a data storage device6 Oct 2022US 2022/0317886 A1Seagate Technology LLC
- Matrix super parity for data storage23 Jun 2022US 2022/0197554 A1Seagate Technology LLC
- Optical disk device20 Jan 2022US 2022/0020394 A1Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Storage controller configured to select unused regions of a storage device for data storage according to head position524US 6,789,162 B1Sun Microsystems, Inc. · 2004
- 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