G11B 5/4886
Relative to rotating disc
Official title: {relative to rotating disc}
G11B5/4886 (Relative to rotating disc) appears on 696 US grants and 232 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G11B- Granted patents
- 696
- Published applications
- 232
- Assignees
- 142
- Inventors
- 1,221
- Latest grant
- 18 Aug 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1977 | 1 | 0 |
| 1978 | 0 | 0 |
| 1979 | 2 | 0 |
| 1980 | 0 | 0 |
| 1981 | 1 | 0 |
| 1982 | 3 | 0 |
| 1983 | 5 | 0 |
| 1984 | 2 | 0 |
| 1985 | 2 | 0 |
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| 1989 | 11 | 0 |
| 1990 | 22 | 0 |
| 1991 | 16 | 0 |
| 1992 | 13 | 0 |
| 1993 | 19 | 0 |
| 1994 | 17 | 0 |
| 1995 | 16 | 0 |
| 1996 | 12 | 0 |
| 1997 | 24 | 0 |
| 1998 | 49 | 0 |
| 1999 | 55 | 0 |
| 2000 | 53 | 0 |
| 2001 | 37 | 19 |
| 2002 | 26 | 23 |
| 2003 | 25 | 18 |
| 2004 | 26 | 29 |
| 2005 | 15 | 18 |
| 2006 | 19 | 10 |
| 2007 | 11 | 10 |
| 2008 | 10 | 3 |
| 2009 | 8 | 3 |
| 2010 | 2 | 3 |
| 2011 | 3 | 1 |
| 2012 | 4 | 1 |
| 2013 | 3 | 5 |
| 2014 | 25 | 8 |
| 2015 | 37 | 26 |
| 2016 | 24 | 12 |
| 2017 | 28 | 11 |
| 2018 | 17 | 9 |
| 2019 | 12 | 4 |
| 2020 | 10 | 6 |
| 2021 | 4 | 2 |
| 2022 | 5 | 4 |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 |
| 2024 | 2 | 3 |
| 2025 | 3 | 3 |
| 2026 | 2 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Magnetic disk device and method18 Nov 2025US 12,475,925 B2Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Magnetic recording medium with varying composition ratio and magnetic recording device21 Oct 2025US 12,451,159 B2Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Magnetic disk device8 Apr 2025US 12,272,389 B1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Orthogonal Reading Using SOT-Based Readers or Mixed Readers in Vector Magnetic Recording24 Sep 2026US 2026/0290389 A1Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Magnetic disk device and method25 Sep 2025US 2025/0299698 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Magnetic disk device and method of controlling the same18 Sep 2025US 2025/0292798 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Magnetic disk device4 Sep 2025US 2025/0279118 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Magnetic recording medium and magnetic recording device6 Jun 2024US 2024/0185884 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
Most cited
By later US patents
- Electronic device using magnetic components385US 5,695,864 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 1997
- Read/write head with shifted waveguide218US 6,016,290 ARead-Rite Corporation · 2000
- Laser mounting for a thermally assisted GMR head203US 6,404,706 B1Read-Rite Corporation · 2002
- Conformal high moment side shield seed layer for perpendicular magnetic recording writer165US 8,724,259 B1Western Digital (Fremont), LLC · 2014
- Composite type thin-film magnetic head155US 6,125,018 ARead-Rite SMI Corporation · 2000