G11B 7/0045
Recording
Official title: Recording (G11B7/006, G11B7/0065 take precedence)
G11B7/0045 (Recording) appears on 3,301 US grants and 2,650 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G11B- Granted patents
- 3,301
- Published applications
- 2,650
- Assignees
- 477
- Inventors
- 3,767
- Latest grant
- 25 Aug 2026
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| 2026 | 5 | 3 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- G11B 7/00456Recording strategies661
- G11B 7/00454Involving phase-change effects609
- G11B 7/00455Involving reflectivity, absorption or colour changes392
- G11B 7/00458Verification, i.e. checking data during or after recording152
- G11B 7/00452Involving bubble or bump forming128
- G11B 7/00451Involving ablation of the recording layer77
- G11B 7/00453Involving spectral or photochemical hole burning43
- G11B 2007/00457Two photon recordingIndexing code14
Recent patents
- Non-volatile data storage medium and system25 Aug 2026US 12,718,843 B2Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne (Epfl)
- Data storage device with intelligent write protection for energy anomalies in energy-assisted magnetic recording19 May 2026US 12,633,309 B2Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Data recording on ceramic material12 May 2026US 12,626,722 B2Ceramic Data Solutions GmbH
- Method for long-term storage of information and storage medium therefor7 Apr 2026US 12,594,629 B2Ceramic Data Solutions GmbH
- Method for fabricating nanostructured optical elements17 Feb 2026US 12,555,604 B2University of Southampton
- Multi-beam writing apparatus and multi-beam writing method17 Sep 2026US 2026/0279395 A1NuFlare Technology, Inc.
- Super-resolution three-dimensional optical storage focusing servo device and method thereof23 Jul 2026US 2026/0212888 A1Shanghai Institute of Optics And Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Compact Writing and Reading Head for Hyper Speed Data Recording on Ceramic Material28 May 2026US 2026/0148751 A1Ceramic Data Solutions GmbH
- Non-volatile data storage medium and system16 Oct 2025US 2025/0322846 A1Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne (Epfl)
- Hybrid Digital and Analog Data Storage17 Apr 2025US 2025/0124952 A1Ceramic Data Solutions GmbH
Most cited
By later US patents
- Device for writing to and reading from optical storage media268US 5,325,116 ATexas Instruments Incorporated · 1994
- Memory disk and apparatus for recording information on memory disk239US 5,058,089 AKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba · 1991
- Optical reproducing method215US 6,549,497 B2Hitachi, Ltd. · 2003
- Method for making a broadband reflective laser recording and data storage medium with absorptive underlayer198US 4,312,938 ADrexler Technology Corporation · 1982
- Optical recording medium having a plurality of discrete phase change data recording points198US 5,591,501 AEnergy Conversion Devices, Inc. · 1997