G11B 5/59672
Servo re-writing
Official title: {Servo re-writing, e.g. for the correction of offsets or 'fading' of servo marks}
G11B5/59672 (Servo re-writing) appears on 31 US grants and 17 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G11B- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 17
- Assignees
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- Latest grant
- 3 Mar 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Magnetic recording device and a method for manufacturing the same3 Mar 2026US 12,567,441 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 apparatus and method16 Sep 2025US 12,417,785 B1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Parallel self-servo write circuitry in a data storage device15 Jul 2025US 12,361,970 B1Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Parallel self-servo write in a data storage device8 Jul 2025US 12,354,632 B1Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Data storage device with track pitch determination for mitigating effects of servo pattern distortion2 Oct 2025US 2025/0308552 A1Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Magnetic recording device and a method for manufacturing the same28 Aug 2025US 2025/0273238 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Magnetic disk device and servo gate generation method26 Aug 2021US 2021/0264942 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Magnetic disk device and head position correction method22 Oct 2020US 2020/0335129 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Magnetic disk device and head position correction method19 Mar 2020US 2020/0090691 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
Most cited
By later US patents
- Disk drive rewriting servo sectors by writing and servoing off of temporary servo data written in data sectors135US 7,518,819 B1Western Digital Technologies, Inc. · 2009
- System and method for improving head positioning77US 8,619,381 B2WD Media, LLC · 2013
- System and method for improving head positioning46US 8,817,410 B1WD Media, LLC · 2014
- Method and apparatus for runout correction by proper positioning of servo data while self-servo writing28US 6,977,792 B1Maxtor Corporation · 2005
- Method and apparatus for multi-channel servo demodulation10US 10,276,198 B1Marvell International Ltd. · 2019