G11B 5/024
Erasing
G11B5/024 (Erasing) appears on 324 US grants and 187 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G11B- Granted patents
- 324
- Published applications
- 187
- Assignees
- 127
- Inventors
- 599
- Latest grant
- 26 May 2026
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| 2004 | 6 | 5 |
| 2005 | 3 | 14 |
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| 2020 | 5 | 1 |
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| 2022 | 4 | 4 |
| 2023 | 5 | 5 |
| 2024 | 4 | 4 |
| 2025 | 4 | 3 |
| 2026 | 6 | 5 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Handling write commands during a refresh operation in a shingled magnetic recording drive26 May 2026US 12,640,165 B2Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Magnetic storage declassification device12 May 2026US 12,623,229 B2Iron Mountain Incorporated
- Erasing of data from tapes24 Mar 2026US 12,586,602 B2Insurgo Holdings Limited
- Magnetic disk device3 Mar 2026US 12,567,437 B2Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Magnetic recording device and a method for manufacturing the same3 Mar 2026US 12,567,441 B2Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Laser current calibration under id crash stop compression area for blank disk self-servo write10 Sep 2026US 2026/0268931 A1
- Magnetic disk device6 Aug 2026US 2026/0229250 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Magnetic disk device29 Jan 2026US 2026/0031101 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Erasing of data from tapes22 Jan 2026US 2026/0024549 A1Insurgo Holdings Limited
- Handling write commands during a refresh operation in a shingled magnetic recording drive15 Jan 2026US 2026/0018186 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
Most cited
By later US patents
- Heterogeneous display elements and methods for their fabrication562US 6,241,921 B1Massachusetts Institute of Technology · 2001
- Preamplifier circuit configurable to allow simultaneous read and write operations for self-servo writing a disk drive154US 6,693,760 B1Western Digital Technologies, Inc. · 2004
- Disk drive selecting TPI profile by estimating head geometry145US 7,688,540 B1Western Digital Technologies, Inc. · 2010
- Predictive characterization of adjacent track erasure in recording media89US 8,125,723 B1WD Media, LLC · 2012
- Erasing disk surface by direct current applied on a helical trajectory to minimize erase time54US 6,906,880 B1Western Digital Technologies, Inc. · 2005