G11B 21/081
Access to indexed tracks or parts of continuous track
Official title: {Access to indexed tracks or parts of continuous track}
G11B21/081 (Access to indexed tracks or parts of continuous track) appears on 1,139 US grants and 158 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G11B- Granted patents
- 1,139
- Published applications
- 158
- Assignees
- 217
- Inventors
- 1,657
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
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| 2000 | 101 | 0 |
| 2001 | 64 | 28 |
| 2002 | 51 | 36 |
| 2003 | 42 | 19 |
| 2004 | 40 | 19 |
| 2005 | 20 | 11 |
| 2006 | 23 | 8 |
| 2007 | 5 | 6 |
| 2008 | 4 | 4 |
| 2009 | 2 | 0 |
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| 2018 | 3 | 3 |
| 2019 | 3 | 1 |
| 2020 | 6 | 6 |
| 2021 | 5 | 2 |
| 2022 | 3 | 2 |
| 2023 | 2 | 3 |
| 2024 | 4 | 2 |
| 2025 | 2 | 2 |
| 2026 | 3 | 0 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Multi-access data storage device with equalization of data rate29 Sep 2026US 12,749,507 B1Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Method of operating hard disk drives, corresponding hard disk drive and processing device25 Aug 2026US 12,718,845 B2STMicroelectronics S,r.l.
- Increased VCM current resolution during track follow to decrease NRRO11 Aug 2026US 12,706,116 B2Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Method of operating hard disk drives, corresponding hard disk drive and processing device12 Aug 2025US 12,387,758 B2STMicroelectronics S,r.l.
- Repositioning operation on a tape medium based on dataset information1 Jul 2025US 12,347,469 B1International Business Machines Corporation
- Method of operating hard disk drives, corresponding hard disk drive and processing device30 Oct 2025US 2025/0336419 A1STMicroelectronics S,r.l.
- Increased vcm current resolution during track follow to decrease nrro17 Apr 2025US 2025/0124950 A1Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Production pallet control system and production pallet control method12 Sep 2024US 2024/0304217 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Method of operating hard disk drives, corresponding hard disk drive and processing device27 Jun 2024US 2024/0212714 A1STMicroelectronics S,r.l.
- Magnetic disk apparatus and method28 Sep 2023US 2023/0307002 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
Most cited
By later US patents
- Sector architecture for fixed block disk drive234US 5,523,903 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 1996
- Head positioning control system for use in a disk drive using different target velocity data for read and write seeks222US 6,002,544 AKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba · 1999
- Disk drive apparatus using dynamic loading/unloading217US 4,933,785 APrairietek Corporation · 1990
- Architecture for 21/2 inch diameter single disk drive185US 5,025,335 AConner Peripherals, Inc. · 1991
- Recording/reproducing compressed data on a rotatable record medium in which at least one intraframe code signal and at least (n-1) interframe code signals are recorded in each track183US 5,140,437 ASony Corporation · 1992