G11B 7/085
With provision for moving the light beam into, or out of, its
Official title: with provision for moving the light beam into, or out of, its operative position {or across tracks, otherwise than during the transducing operation, e.g. for adjustment or preliminary positioning or track change or selection}
G11B7/085 (With provision for moving the light beam into, or out of, its) appears on 3,186 US grants and 1,839 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G11B- Granted patents
- 3,186
- Published applications
- 1,839
- Assignees
- 437
- Inventors
- 4,062
- Latest grant
- 8 Mar 2022
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 11 | 0 |
| 1977 | 5 | 0 |
| 1978 | 5 | 0 |
| 1979 | 6 | 0 |
| 1980 | 6 | 0 |
| 1981 | 8 | 0 |
| 1982 | 12 | 0 |
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| 1984 | 19 | 0 |
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| 1992 | 130 | 0 |
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| 1996 | 74 | 0 |
| 1997 | 105 | 0 |
| 1998 | 162 | 0 |
| 1999 | 144 | 0 |
| 2000 | 136 | 0 |
| 2001 | 146 | 87 |
| 2002 | 137 | 199 |
| 2003 | 116 | 178 |
| 2004 | 154 | 204 |
| 2005 | 125 | 221 |
| 2006 | 167 | 178 |
| 2007 | 126 | 178 |
| 2008 | 100 | 136 |
| 2009 | 97 | 120 |
| 2010 | 100 | 106 |
| 2011 | 99 | 74 |
| 2012 | 97 | 41 |
| 2013 | 73 | 29 |
| 2014 | 37 | 23 |
| 2015 | 17 | 15 |
| 2016 | 17 | 22 |
| 2017 | 12 | 12 |
| 2018 | 11 | 5 |
| 2019 | 3 | 4 |
| 2020 | 5 | 1 |
| 2021 | 0 | 2 |
| 2022 | 2 | 1 |
| 2023 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024 | 0 | 1 |
| 2025 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026 | 0 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Granted patents
Recent patents
- Methods and apparatuses for compressing and decompressing drive curves8 Mar 2022US 11,270,731 B2Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH
- Radial servo device for super-resolution optical disc and servo control method therefor18 Jan 2022US 11,227,632 B2Shanghai Institute of Optics And Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Optical information processing device29 Dec 2020US 10,878,847 B2Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
- Disaggregated data storage and retrieval system8 Sep 2020US 10,768,825 B2Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Disaggregated data storage and retrieval system21 Jul 2020US 10,719,239 B2Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Compact Writing and Reading Head for Hyper Speed Data Recording on Ceramic Material28 May 2026US 2026/0148751 A1Ceramic Data Solutions GmbH
- Read head and methods for reading multilayer optical data storage media7 Nov 2024US 2024/0371068 A1Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Data read/write system and method7 Sep 2023US 2023/0282233 A1
- Multi-channel multiplexing method and device for disc storage medium27 Oct 2022US 2022/0343947 A1Amethystum Storage Technology Co., Ltd.
- Method and device for accurately detecting and controlling position of optical head and optical disk22 Jul 2021US 2021/0225398 A1Amethystum Storage Technology Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Methods and apparatus for forward-directed optical scanning instruments1,184US 6,485,413 B1The General Hospital Corporation · 2002
- Fiber optic needle probes for optical coherence tomography imaging722US 6,564,087 B1Massachusetts Institute of Technology · 2003
- Grating based phase control optical delay line535US 6,111,645 AMassachusetts Institute of Technology · 2000
- Interferometeric imaging with a grating based phase control optical delay line475US 6,421,164 B2Massachusetts Institute of Technology · 2002
- Grating based phase control optical delay line383US 6,282,011 B1Massachusetts Institute of Technology · 2001