G11B 5/5556
With track following after a "seek"
Official title: {with track following after a "seek"}
G11B5/5556 (With track following after a "seek") appears on 203 US grants and 88 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G11B- Granted patents
- 203
- Published applications
- 88
- Assignees
- 57
- Inventors
- 349
- Latest grant
- 11 Aug 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1977 | 3 | 0 |
| 1978 | 0 | 0 |
| 1979 | 4 | 0 |
| 1980 | 2 | 0 |
| 1981 | 1 | 0 |
| 1982 | 0 | 0 |
| 1983 | 1 | 0 |
| 1984 | 1 | 0 |
| 1985 | 2 | 0 |
| 1986 | 1 | 0 |
| 1987 | 1 | 0 |
| 1988 | 1 | 0 |
| 1989 | 4 | 0 |
| 1990 | 7 | 0 |
| 1991 | 6 | 0 |
| 1992 | 5 | 0 |
| 1993 | 4 | 0 |
| 1994 | 0 | 0 |
| 1995 | 2 | 0 |
| 1996 | 1 | 0 |
| 1997 | 0 | 0 |
| 1998 | 5 | 0 |
| 1999 | 6 | 0 |
| 2000 | 1 | 0 |
| 2001 | 5 | 5 |
| 2002 | 6 | 4 |
| 2003 | 12 | 11 |
| 2004 | 9 | 5 |
| 2005 | 11 | 7 |
| 2006 | 8 | 5 |
| 2007 | 5 | 12 |
| 2008 | 7 | 3 |
| 2009 | 16 | 3 |
| 2010 | 4 | 1 |
| 2011 | 1 | 0 |
| 2012 | 3 | 1 |
| 2013 | 0 | 2 |
| 2014 | 3 | 0 |
| 2015 | 8 | 1 |
| 2016 | 4 | 0 |
| 2017 | 5 | 2 |
| 2018 | 5 | 2 |
| 2019 | 2 | 3 |
| 2020 | 9 | 6 |
| 2021 | 8 | 2 |
| 2022 | 2 | 2 |
| 2023 | 3 | 3 |
| 2024 | 2 | 3 |
| 2025 | 4 | 3 |
| 2026 | 3 | 2 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Increased VCM current resolution during track follow to decrease NRRO11 Aug 2026US 12,706,116 B2Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Voltage slew control of fine actuators in hard disk drive16 Jun 2026US 12,658,207 B1Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Data storage device with self-learning oscillation detector6 Jan 2026US 12,518,789 B2Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Magnetic disk drive16 Sep 2025US 12,417,783 B1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Voltage slew control of fine actuators during discharge2 Sep 2025US 12,406,697 B1Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Magnetic disk device and signal synchronization method17 Sep 2026US 2026/0279394 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Evaluation method, manufacturing method, and disk device23 Apr 2026US 2026/0112390 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Magnetic disk drive18 Sep 2025US 2025/0292794 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Data storage device with self-learning oscillation detector22 May 2025US 2025/0166662 A1Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Increased vcm current resolution during track follow to decrease nrro17 Apr 2025US 2025/0124950 A1Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Disk drive actuator arm with microactuated read/write head positioning198US 6,421,211 B1Read-Rite Corporation · 2002
- Disk drive actuator arm with microactuated read/write head positioning169US 6,310,750 B1Read-Rite Corporation · 2001
- Disk drive actuator arm with microactuated read/write head positioning165US 6,404,600 B1Read-Rite Corporation · 2002
- Disk drive actuator arm with microactuated read/write head positioning164US 6,512,659 B1Read-Rite Corporation · 2003
- Disk drive employing a multi-phase rotational position optimization (RPO) algorithm146US 7,114,029 B1Western Digital Technologies, Inc. · 2006