G11B 7/12

Heads

Official title: Heads, e.g. forming of the optical beam spot or modulation of the optical beam (disposition or mounting of head elements within housing or with provision for moving of light source, optical beam or detector, irrelevant to the transducing method G11B7/08 {; modulating lasers H01S3/10; controlling the intensity, colour, phase, polarisation or direction of light beams arriving from an independent light source, e.g. switching gating or modulating G02F1/00})

G11B7/12 (Heads) appears on 10,034 US grants and 7,766 published applications in this corpus.

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1976290
1977230
1978280
1979200
1980270
1981190
1982310
1983210
1984470
1985520
1986510
1987820
1988890
19891280
19901000
19911210
19921980
19932030
19941740
19952040
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19972920
19984040
19993110
20003740
2001360240
2002414602
2003404551
2004443665
2005366892
2006548845
2007513717
2008487813
2009459662
2010596542
2011628333
2012478254
2013334173
2014168120
201510075
20168273
20177336
20187434
20194028
20203222
20212523
20222911
20231022
20243021
20252610
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