G11B 5/4969
Details for track selection or addressing
Official title: {Details for track selection or addressing}
G11B5/4969 (Details for track selection or addressing) appears on 184 US grants and 84 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G11B- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 84
- Assignees
- 85
- Inventors
- 335
- Latest grant
- 1 Sep 2026
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| 2003 | 4 | 8 |
| 2004 | 6 | 8 |
| 2005 | 7 | 15 |
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| 2009 | 6 | 1 |
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| 2020 | 6 | 3 |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 |
| 2022 | 0 | 1 |
| 2023 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024 | 1 | 2 |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 |
| 2026 | 1 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Switch device and hard disk device1 Sep 2026US 12,726,194 B2Rohm Co., Ltd.
- Magnetic head with multilayer configuration between magnetic poles and magnetic recording device7 Jan 2025US 12,190,917 B2Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Storage device having a drive arm with multiple read-write head2 Jan 2024US 11,861,173 B2Felicity Taiwan Corporation
- Data storage device staggering access operations to facilitate concurrent access of two disk surfaces29 Jun 2021US 11,049,517 B1Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Embedded disconnected circuits in magnetic storage media of data storage devices20 Oct 2020US 10,811,047 B1Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Servo control system25 Jun 2026US 2026/0179651 A1Fanuc Corporation
- Switch Device and Hard Disk Device26 Sep 2024US 2024/0322813 A1Rohm Co., Ltd.
- Magnetic head with multilayer configuration between magnetic poles and magnetic recording device5 Sep 2024US 2024/0296861 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Magnetic disk device and method7 Sep 2023US 2023/0282231 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Storage device having a drive arm with multiple read-write head6 Oct 2022US 2022/0317885 A1Felicity Taiwan Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Multichannel digital recording system with multi-user detection118US 6,826,140 B2BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. · 2004
- Magnetic data storage fixed hard disk drive using stationary microhead array chips in place of flying-heads and rotary voice-coil actuators102US 6,249,824 B12001
- Azimuthal magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus93US 4,539,615 AHitachi, Ltd. · 1985
- Magnetic storage device with multiple read elements which are offset laterally and longitudinally72US 6,157,510 AMaxtor Corporation · 2000
- Method and system for compensating for adjacent tracks during reading of data66US 8,599,508 B1Marvell International Ltd. · 2013