G11B 5/743
Patterned record carriers, wherein the magnetic recording layer is patterned into magnetic
Official title: {Patterned record carriers, wherein the magnetic recording layer is patterned into magnetic isolated data islands, e.g. discrete tracks}
G11B5/743 (Patterned record carriers, wherein the magnetic recording layer is patterned into magnetic) appears on 878 US grants and 998 published applications in this corpus.
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Tri-level magnetic recording of bits21 Apr 2026US 12,609,135 B1Seagate Technology LLC
- Magnetic disk device and method for manufacturing magnetic disk device6 Jan 2026US 12,518,784 B1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Magnetic stack, and related data storage devices, systems, and methods23 Dec 2025US 12,505,855 B1Seagate Technology LLC
- Methods of manufacturing at least a portion of a magnetic layer of a magnetic recording disk, and related magnetic recording disks2 Apr 2024US 11,948,614 B2Seagate Technology LLC
- Discrete track magnetic recording for EAMR6 Jun 2023US 11,670,337 B1Seagate Technology LLC
- Magnetic stack, and related data storage devices, systems, and methods19 Mar 2026US 2026/0080897 A1Seagate Technology LLC
- Magnetic stack, and related data storage devices, systems, and methods25 Dec 2025US 2025/0391429 A1Seagate Technology LLC
- Method of forming patterned magnetic media6 Jun 2024US 2024/0185885 A1Seagate Technology LLC
- Methods of manufacturing at least a portion of a magnetic layer of a magnetic recording disk, and related magnetic recording disks24 Aug 2023US 2023/0267959 A1Seagate Technology LLC
- Discrete track magnetic recording for eamr8 Jun 2023US 2023/0178110 A1Seagate Technology LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method for manufacturing porous structure and method for forming pattern645US 6,565,763 B1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba · 2003
- Heterogeneous display elements and methods for their fabrication562US 6,241,921 B1Massachusetts Institute of Technology · 2001
- Methods of making, positioning and orienting nanostructures, nanostructure arrays and nanostructure devices234US 6,962,823 B2Nanosys, Inc. · 2005
- Methods of positioning and/or orienting nanostructures233US 6,872,645 B2Nanosys, Inc. · 2005
- Method for making magnetic storage having discrete elements with quantized magnetic moments166US 5,820,769 ARegents of the University of Minnesota · 1998