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G11B 5/78

Tape carriers

G11B5/78 (Tape carriers) appears on 483 US grants and 495 published applications in this corpus.

Search patents in G11B

Granted patents: 483
Published applications: 495
Assignees: 60
Inventors: 445
Latest grant: 6 Oct 2026

Filings by year

G11B 5/78: granted patents and published applications per publication year
Year	Granted patents	Published applications
1978	1	0
1979	0	0
1980	1	0
1981	1	0
1982	0	0
1983	0	0
1984	0	0
1985	0	0
1986	0	0
1987	0	0
1988	1	0
1989	0	0
1990	2	0
1991	3	0
1992	3	0
1993	2	0
1994	2	0
1995	3	0
1996	2	0
1997	1	0
1998	5	0
1999	11	0
2000	10	0
2001	8	2
2002	5	9
2003	5	10
2004	9	17
2005	8	18
2006	8	4
2007	10	8
2008	6	5
2009	3	6
2010	4	9
2011	4	3
2012	4	6
2013	4	3
2014	6	5
2015	5	7
2016	8	9
2017	7	36
2018	15	38
2019	47	37
2020	45	41
2021	40	53
2022	56	35
2023	33	44
2024	30	43
2025	45	25
2026	20	22

By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.

Recent patents

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