G11B 5/09
Digital recording
G11B5/09 (Digital recording) appears on 2,059 US grants and 1,004 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G11B- Granted patents
- 2,059
- Published applications
- 1,004
- Assignees
- 322
- Inventors
- 2,717
- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 7 | 0 |
| 1977 | 2 | 0 |
| 1978 | 2 | 0 |
| 1979 | 0 | 0 |
| 1980 | 1 | 0 |
| 1981 | 4 | 0 |
| 1982 | 2 | 0 |
| 1983 | 3 | 0 |
| 1984 | 7 | 0 |
| 1985 | 10 | 0 |
| 1986 | 10 | 0 |
| 1987 | 15 | 0 |
| 1988 | 8 | 0 |
| 1989 | 13 | 0 |
| 1990 | 9 | 0 |
| 1991 | 18 | 0 |
| 1992 | 31 | 0 |
| 1993 | 21 | 0 |
| 1994 | 46 | 0 |
| 1995 | 46 | 0 |
| 1996 | 50 | 0 |
| 1997 | 46 | 0 |
| 1998 | 93 | 0 |
| 1999 | 86 | 0 |
| 2000 | 106 | 0 |
| 2001 | 105 | 35 |
| 2002 | 86 | 67 |
| 2003 | 78 | 79 |
| 2004 | 93 | 66 |
| 2005 | 54 | 76 |
| 2006 | 69 | 28 |
| 2007 | 46 | 47 |
| 2008 | 45 | 39 |
| 2009 | 39 | 34 |
| 2010 | 65 | 62 |
| 2011 | 64 | 37 |
| 2012 | 55 | 43 |
| 2013 | 47 | 55 |
| 2014 | 118 | 54 |
| 2015 | 104 | 68 |
| 2016 | 75 | 51 |
| 2017 | 78 | 34 |
| 2018 | 42 | 9 |
| 2019 | 45 | 26 |
| 2020 | 35 | 26 |
| 2021 | 16 | 9 |
| 2022 | 11 | 8 |
| 2023 | 7 | 10 |
| 2024 | 15 | 14 |
| 2025 | 17 | 9 |
| 2026 | 14 | 18 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Magnetic disk device and method22 Sep 2026US 12,744,054 B2Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Magnetic recording tape medium with conductive particle configuration and cartridge8 Sep 2026US 12,731,609 B2Sony Group Corporation
- Magnetic disk device and method18 Aug 2026US 12,711,984 B2Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Magnetic disk device and method11 Aug 2026US 12,706,112 B2Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Write current undershoot for a heat-assisted magnetic storage device4 Aug 2026US 12,700,422 B2Seagate Technology LLC
- Magnetic disk device and method20 Aug 2026US 2026/0245581 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Magnetic disk device and method of recording data20 Aug 2026US 2026/0245591 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Magnetic recording medium13 Aug 2026US 2026/0237402 A1Sony Group Corporation
- Magnetic disk device and dol setting method13 Aug 2026US 2026/0237405 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Magnetic disk device6 Aug 2026US 2026/0229250 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
- Disk drive employing a sync mark detector comprising a matched filter and a dual polarity correlator217US 6,603,622 B1Western Digital Technologies, Inc. · 2003
- Waveguide apparatus for coupling a high data rate signal to and from a rotary head scanner203US 4,717,974 AEastman Kodak Company · 1988
- Disk drive having a high performance access mode and a lower performance archive mode190US 7,599,139 B1Western Digital Technologies, Inc. · 2009
- Disk drive including N-current preamplifier for generating N-independently controlled write currents186US 6,310,740 B1Western Digital Technologies, Inc. · 2001