G11B 5/7366
For heat-assisted or thermally-assisted magnetic recording [hamr, tamr]
Official title: {for heat-assisted or thermally-assisted magnetic recording [HAMR, TAMR]}
G11B5/7366 (For heat-assisted or thermally-assisted magnetic recording [hamr, tamr]) appears on 18 US grants and 12 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G11B- Granted patents
- 18
- Published applications
- 12
- Assignees
- 6
- Inventors
- 48
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
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| 2012 | 2 | 0 |
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| 2014 | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 |
| 2018 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 1 | 3 |
| 2021 | 5 | 3 |
| 2022 | 5 | 2 |
| 2023 | 1 | 1 |
| 2024 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026 | 2 | 0 |
By publication year. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Waveguide multilayer core structure for use in heat assisted magnetic recording29 Sep 2026US 12,749,503 B1Seagate Technology LLC
- Media design and write technique for creating neutral polarity transition zones20 Jan 2026US 12,531,089 B2Seagate Technology LLC
- Media design and write technique for creating neutral polarity transition zones27 Aug 2024US 12,073,862 B2Seagate Technology LLC
- Media design and write technique for creating neutral polarity transition zones11 Apr 2023US 11,626,134 B1Seagate Technology LLC
- Adding a cap-layer to improve magnetic recording media31 May 2022US 11,348,613 B2Seagate Technology LLC
- Media design and write technique for creating neutral polarity transition zones14 Nov 2024US 2024/0379121 A1Seagate Technology LLC
- Media design and write technique for creating neutral polarity transition zones6 Jul 2023US 2023/0215461 A1Seagate Technology LLC
- Seed layer for carbon overcoat in magnetic media10 Nov 2022US 2022/0358963 A1Seagate Technology LLC
- Magnetic recording medium, method of manufacturing the same, and magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus17 Feb 2022US 2022/0051693 A1
- Method and apparatus for modulating a laser power signal during heat-assisted magnetic recording30 Dec 2021US 2021/0407546 A1Seagate Technology LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Perpendicular magnetic recording medium with an ordering temperature reducing layer89US 8,173,282 B1WD Media, LLC · 2012
- Soft underlayer for heat assisted magnetic recording media10US 9,824,711 B1WD Media, LLC · 2017
- In-situ NFT pre-treatment to accumulate optically transparent material on NFT to improve reliability6US 10,950,266 B1Western Digital Technologies, Inc. · 2021
- Thermally assisted magnetic recording medium and magnetic recording storage5US 8,270,286 B2Showa Denko K. K. · 2012
- Two dimensional amorphous carbon as overcoat for heat assisted magnetic recording media4US 10,984,830 B2National University of Singapore · 2021