G11B 23/40
Identifying or analogous means applied to or incorporated in the record carrier
Official title: Identifying or analogous means applied to or incorporated in the record carrier and not intended for visual display simultaneously with the playing-back of the record carrier, e.g. label, leader, photograph
G11B23/40 (Identifying or analogous means applied to or incorporated in the record carrier) appears on 719 US grants and 582 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G11B- Granted patents
- 719
- Published applications
- 582
- Assignees
- 225
- Inventors
- 1,207
- Latest grant
- 6 May 2025
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 1 | 0 |
| 1977 | 0 | 0 |
| 1978 | 3 | 0 |
| 1979 | 1 | 0 |
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| 1981 | 3 | 0 |
| 1982 | 1 | 0 |
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| 1984 | 3 | 0 |
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| 1998 | 51 | 0 |
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| 2000 | 36 | 0 |
| 2001 | 39 | 25 |
| 2002 | 39 | 44 |
| 2003 | 30 | 43 |
| 2004 | 26 | 65 |
| 2005 | 32 | 73 |
| 2006 | 24 | 67 |
| 2007 | 35 | 71 |
| 2008 | 34 | 68 |
| 2009 | 49 | 49 |
| 2010 | 38 | 24 |
| 2011 | 45 | 17 |
| 2012 | 23 | 16 |
| 2013 | 21 | 9 |
| 2014 | 11 | 4 |
| 2015 | 4 | 1 |
| 2016 | 3 | 0 |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 |
| 2018 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 3 | 2 |
| 2020 | 0 | 2 |
| 2021 | 3 | 1 |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 |
| 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 0 | 1 |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001.
Recent patents
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- Optimized re-inventory for a tape library8 Feb 2022US 11,244,707 B1International Business Machines Corporation
- Media processing apparatus and method of controlling media processing apparatus31 Aug 2021US 11,106,407 B2Seiko Epson Corporation
- Recording tape cartridge and barcode label reissuing method3 Aug 2021US 11,080,499 B2FUJIFILM Corporation
- Printing apparatus and printing method16 Feb 2021US 10,919,316 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Magnetic tape cartridge and label for magnetic tape cartridge identification22 Aug 2024US 2024/0282340 A1FUJIFILM Corporation
- Media processing apparatus and method of controlling media processing apparatus27 May 2021US 2021/0155011 A1Seiko Epson Corporation
- Recording tape cartridge and barcode label reissuing method15 Oct 2020US 2020/0327291 A1FUJIFILM Corporation
- Printing apparatus and printing method6 Feb 2020US 2020/0039240 A1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Connected recording medium disc12 Dec 2019US 2019/0378538 A1MPO International
Most cited
By later US patents
- Compact disc recorder/vending machine267US 5,949,688 A1999
- Printing method for disc-shaped information carriers112US 5,317,337 AU. S. Philips Corporation · 1994
- Personalized greeting card with electronic storage media and method of personalizing same109US 6,453,300 B2CD coupon, LLC · 2002
- Method and apparatus for preventing illegal copy or illegal installation of information of optical recording medium105US 5,881,038 AMatsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. · 1999
- Recording and reproducing apparatus101US 5,473,584 AMatsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. · 1995