G11B 33/125
The apparatus comprising a plurality of recording/reproducing devices
Official title: {the apparatus comprising a plurality of recording/reproducing devices, e.g. modular arrangements, arrays of disc drives}
G11B33/125 (The apparatus comprising a plurality of recording/reproducing devices) appears on 1,400 US grants and 1,202 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G11B- Granted patents
- 1,400
- Published applications
- 1,202
- Assignees
- 335
- Inventors
- 2,360
- Latest grant
- 15 Sep 2026
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| 2026 | 16 | 15 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Server chassis and server15 Sep 2026US 12,740,002 B2Wistron Corporation
- Modular mass storage system25 Aug 2026US 12,717,746 B2Amazon Technologies, Inc.
- Common filler for mounting cages having different dimensions11 Aug 2026US 12,707,590 B2Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
- Modular and symmetrical data storage unit4 Aug 2026US 12,700,432 B2Sphere Entertainment Group, LLC
- High-density data storage systems and methods9 Jun 2026US 12,652,770 B2
- Hard disk adapter apparatus, hard disk storage system, server, and computer device2 Jul 2026US 2026/0188351 A1Suzhou Metabrain Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd.
- Rack mount enclosures4 Jun 2026US 2026/0156769 A1
- Damping structure and electronic device21 May 2026US 2026/0141925 A1Inventec Corporation
- Server System Storage System Storage Component Tray System21 May 2026US 2026/0143615 A1Dell Products L. P.
- Storage device14 May 2026US 2026/0136506 A1Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Fault tolerant modular subsystems for computers284US 4,754,397 ATandem Computers Incorporated · 1988
- System for enabling stacking of autochanger modules262US 6,269,411 B1Hewlett-Packard Company · 2001
- Packaging architecture for a data server211US 5,684,671 ASequent Computer Systems, Inc. · 1997
- Disk drive test chamber205US 5,851,143 AThermal Industries, Inc. · 1998
- Hot-swappable multi-cartridge docking module190US 5,483,419 APont Peripherals Corporation · 1996