G11B 5/3967
Composite structural arrangements of transducers
Official title: {Composite structural arrangements of transducers, e.g. inductive write and magnetoresistive read (G11B5/3906 takes precedence)}
G11B5/3967 (Composite structural arrangements of transducers) appears on 1,801 US grants and 949 published applications in this corpus.
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Topological insulator based spin torque oscillator reader21 Jul 2026US 12,688,869 B2Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Beam support for staggered modules of a tilted head in a storage system30 Dec 2025US 12,512,118 B2International Business Machines Corporation
- HAMR read-write head with coupler and waveguide23 Dec 2025US 12,505,858 B1Seagate Technology LLC
- Adaptive bias control for magnetic recording head28 Jan 2025US 12,211,526 B2Headway Technologies, Inc.
- Topological insulator based spin torque oscillator reader22 Oct 2024US 12,125,508 B2Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Adaptive Bias Control for Magnetic Recording Head30 Apr 2026US 2026/0120716 A1Headway Technologies, Inc.
- Beam support for staggered modules of a tilted head in a storage system13 Nov 2025US 2025/0349314 A1International Business Machines Corporation
- Topological Insulator Based Spin Torque Oscillator Reader9 Jan 2025US 2025/0014595 A1Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Dual Circuit Isolation of Writer to Reader Crosstalk for SGV Modules19 Sep 2024US 2024/0312482 A1Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Laser writing apparatus and method for programming magnetoresistive devices11 Apr 2024US 2024/0118317 A1MultiDimension Technology Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Read/write head with shifted waveguide218US 6,016,290 ARead-Rite Corporation · 2000
- Inductive write head formed with flat yoke and merged with magnetoresistive read transducer213US 6,043,959 ARead-Rite Corporation · 2000
- Apparatus and method of device stripe height control211US 6,193,584 B1Read-Rite Corporation · 2001
- Magnetoresistive sensor having hard biased current perpendicular to the plane sensor203US 6,353,318 B1Read-Rite Corporation · 2002
- Laser mounting for a thermally assisted GMR head203US 6,404,706 B1Read-Rite Corporation · 2002