G11B 7/013
For discrete information, i.e. where each information unit is stored in a
Official title: for discrete information, i.e. where each information unit is stored in a distinct discrete location {, e.g. digital information formats within a data block or sector}
G11B7/013 (For discrete information, i.e. where each information unit is stored in a) appears on 544 US grants and 217 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G11B- Granted patents
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Differential phase voxel symbol determination2 Sep 2025US 12,406,695 B1Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Multidimensional optical storage media having light confinement layers and reading methodology therefor12 Aug 2025US 12,387,753 B1Seagate Technology LLC
- Method for playing back information recording medium13 Jun 2023US 11,676,634 B2Memory-Tech Holdings Inc.
- Optical disk recording method, optical disk device, and integrated circuit19 Jul 2022US 11,393,505 B2Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
- Optical disk recording method, optical disk device, and integrated circuit8 Jun 2021US 11,031,040 B2Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
- Information recording medium and playback device17 Aug 2023US 2023/0260545 A1Memory-Tech Holdings Inc.
- Optical disk recording method, optical disk device, and integrated circuit12 Aug 2021US 2021/0249046 A1Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
- Optical disk recording method, optical disk device, and integrated circuit14 Jan 2021US 2021/0012802 A1Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
- Method for playing back information recording medium7 May 2020US 2020/0143829 A1Memory-Tech Holdings Inc.
- Optical disc and optical disc device24 Oct 2019US 2019/0325909 A1Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Dot code and information recording/reproducing system for recording/reproducing the same261US 5,896,403 AOlympus Optical Co., Ltd. · 1999
- Large capacity recording medium, method and apparatus for reproducing data from a large-capacity recording medium, and method and apparatus for recording data on a large-capacity recording medium227US 5,778,142 AKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba · 1998
- Information record medium, apparatus for recording the same and apparatus for reproducing the same225US 6,215,952 B1Pioneer Electronic Corporation · 2001
- 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