G11B 5/5539
Skew adjustment
Official title: {Skew adjustment, e.g. adjustment of the position of the first sector in each track with respect to the other tracks, for improving, e.g. access performance}
G11B5/5539 (Skew adjustment) appears on 38 US grants and 21 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G11B- Granted patents
- 38
- Published applications
- 21
- Assignees
- 10
- Inventors
- 95
- Latest grant
- 10 Feb 2026
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Recent patents
- Magnetic disk device10 Feb 2026US 12,548,592 B2Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Data storage device with track pitch determination for mitigating effects of servo pattern distortion30 Sep 2025US 12,431,161 B1Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Magnetic disk device and write method13 May 2025US 12,300,278 B2Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Magnetic disk device25 Feb 2025US 12,236,985 B1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Data storage system and magnetic tape recording media with features for correcting the combined effects of tape skew and tape dimensional stability10 Oct 2023US 11,783,857 B2International Business Machines Corporation
- Data storage device with track pitch determination for mitigating effects of servo pattern distortion2 Oct 2025US 2025/0308552 A1Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Magnetic disk device15 May 2025US 2025/0157487 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Magnetic disk device13 Mar 2025US 2025/0087237 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Magnetic disk device and write method20 Feb 2025US 2025/0061919 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Data storage system and magnetic tape recording media with features for correcting the combined effects of tape skew and tape dimensional stability9 Jun 2022US 2022/0180897 A1International Business Machines Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Disk drive refreshing zones in segments to sustain target throughput of host commands138US 7,945,727 B2Western Digital Technologies, Inc. · 2011
- Connection schemes for a multiple sensor array usable in two-dimensional magnetic recording44US 8,891,207 B1Western Digital (Fremont), LLC · 2014
- Current-perpendicular-to-the-plane (CPP) magnetoresistive (MR) sensor structure with stacked sensors for minimization of the effect of head skew28US 9,099,125 B1HGST Netherlands B. V. · 2015
- Disk drive sensor selection21US 9,576,597 B2Seagate Technology LLC · 2017
- Data storage device aborting write operation based on accumulated track squeeze metric for adjacent data track16US 10,748,567 B1Western Digital Technologies, Inc. · 2020