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G11B 23/08757

Guiding means

Official title: {Guiding means}

G11B23/08757 (Guiding means) appears on 344 US grants and 44 published applications in this corpus.

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Granted patents: 344
Published applications: 44
Assignees: 69
Inventors: 415
Latest grant: 6 Jan 2026

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G11B 23/08757: granted patents and published applications per publication year
Year	Granted patents	Published applications
1976	8	0
1977	4	0
1978	16	0
1979	3	0
1980	7	0
1981	12	0
1982	9	0
1983	12	0
1984	10	0
1985	16	0
1986	14	0
1987	12	0
1988	16	0
1989	13	0
1990	14	0
1991	11	0
1992	13	0
1993	11	0
1994	17	0
1995	20	0
1996	18	0
1997	11	0
1998	10	0
1999	13	0
2000	7	0
2001	4	2
2002	4	6
2003	8	12
2004	8	8
2005	8	0
2006	3	1
2007	0	2
2008	2	3
2009	1	2
2010	0	0
2011	2	0
2012	0	0
2013	0	2
2014	0	0
2015	1	0
2016	1	0
2017	0	0
2018	0	0
2019	0	0
2020	0	0
2021	0	2
2022	2	0
2023	1	1
2024	1	2
2025	0	0
2026	1	1

By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.

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High capacity captive tape drive6 Jan 2026US 12,518,788 B2Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
Tape assemblies having flangeless reel configurations and single flange reel configurations for magnetic recording devices2 Jul 2024US 12,027,181 B2Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
Tape assemblies having movable reel configurations for magnetic recording devices24 Jan 2023US 11,562,769 B1Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
Head positioning assembly for tape embedded drive5 Apr 2022US 11,295,771 B2Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
Multi-spool tape recording apparatus having removable mounts for supporting tape spool pairs25 Jan 2022US 11,232,815 B2International Business Machines Corporation

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