G11B 5/607
Using thermal means
Official title: {using thermal means}
G11B5/607 (Using thermal means) appears on 581 US grants and 428 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G11B- Granted patents
- 581
- Published applications
- 428
- Assignees
- 63
- Inventors
- 961
- Latest grant
- 11 Aug 2026
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| 1995 | 1 | 0 |
| 1996 | 1 | 0 |
| 1997 | 0 | 0 |
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| 1999 | 1 | 0 |
| 2000 | 1 | 0 |
| 2001 | 0 | 0 |
| 2002 | 0 | 5 |
| 2003 | 2 | 2 |
| 2004 | 3 | 3 |
| 2005 | 3 | 12 |
| 2006 | 13 | 20 |
| 2007 | 9 | 8 |
| 2008 | 22 | 61 |
| 2009 | 38 | 31 |
| 2010 | 37 | 14 |
| 2011 | 11 | 15 |
| 2012 | 24 | 32 |
| 2013 | 34 | 40 |
| 2014 | 86 | 46 |
| 2015 | 67 | 27 |
| 2016 | 31 | 18 |
| 2017 | 54 | 18 |
| 2018 | 31 | 9 |
| 2019 | 23 | 7 |
| 2020 | 15 | 5 |
| 2021 | 12 | 4 |
| 2022 | 9 | 6 |
| 2023 | 10 | 6 |
| 2024 | 17 | 16 |
| 2025 | 15 | 14 |
| 2026 | 10 | 9 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Architecture for DC bias canceling and gain recovery for hard disk drive fly height detection11 Aug 2026US 12,706,117 B1
- Data storage device with real time fly height predictor for different servo seek sequences and other drive operations21 Jul 2026US 12,688,872 B1Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Laser power monitoring in hard disk drives16 Jun 2026US 12,658,210 B1Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited
- Data storage device with jitter-based touchdown detection19 May 2026US 12,633,307 B1Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Disk device24 Mar 2026US 12,586,603 B2Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- High impedance biasing circuit27 Aug 2026US 2026/0254427 A1STMicroelectronics International N. V.
- Architecture for dc bias canceling and gain recovery for hard disk drive fly height detection13 Aug 2026US 2026/0237403 A1STMicroelectronics International N. V.
- Air bearing design for high oxygen partial pressure for heat-assisted magnetic recording30 Jul 2026US 2026/0221152 A1Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Magnetic disk device23 Jul 2026US 2026/0212884 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Data storage device with real time fly height predictor for different servo seek sequences and other drive operations23 Jul 2026US 2026/0212885 A1Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Differential head integrated touchdown sensors for hard disk drives207US 7,800,858 B1Western Digital (Fremont), LLC · 2010
- Head integrated touchdown sensor for hard disk drives204US 7,796,356 B1Western Digital (Fremont), LLC · 2010
- Magnetic recording head with resistive heating element located near the write coil186US 7,372,665 B1Western Digital (Fremont), LLC · 2008
- Perpendicular magnetic recording head with dynamic flying height heating element177US 7,430,098 B1Western Digital (Fremont), LLC · 2008
- Magnetic recording head with resistive heating element located near the write coil170US 7,729,087 B1Western Digital (Fremont), LLC · 2010