G11B 7/127
Lasers
Official title: Lasers; Multiple laser arrays {(lasers per se H01S)}
G11B7/127 (Lasers) appears on 1,375 US grants and 1,325 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G11B- Granted patents
- 1,375
- Published applications
- 1,325
- Assignees
- 288
- Inventors
- 2,149
- Latest grant
- 28 Jul 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1981 | 2 | 0 |
| 1982 | 1 | 0 |
| 1983 | 0 | 0 |
| 1984 | 0 | 0 |
| 1985 | 2 | 0 |
| 1986 | 1 | 0 |
| 1987 | 2 | 0 |
| 1988 | 3 | 0 |
| 1989 | 6 | 0 |
| 1990 | 5 | 0 |
| 1991 | 4 | 0 |
| 1992 | 5 | 0 |
| 1993 | 13 | 0 |
| 1994 | 8 | 0 |
| 1995 | 16 | 0 |
| 1996 | 33 | 0 |
| 1997 | 44 | 0 |
| 1998 | 39 | 0 |
| 1999 | 47 | 0 |
| 2000 | 61 | 0 |
| 2001 | 55 | 52 |
| 2002 | 74 | 103 |
| 2003 | 61 | 98 |
| 2004 | 75 | 112 |
| 2005 | 62 | 160 |
| 2006 | 89 | 152 |
| 2007 | 86 | 117 |
| 2008 | 98 | 136 |
| 2009 | 75 | 117 |
| 2010 | 100 | 89 |
| 2011 | 121 | 50 |
| 2012 | 56 | 38 |
| 2013 | 43 | 30 |
| 2014 | 31 | 26 |
| 2015 | 10 | 9 |
| 2016 | 4 | 5 |
| 2017 | 7 | 3 |
| 2018 | 5 | 3 |
| 2019 | 4 | 4 |
| 2020 | 4 | 1 |
| 2021 | 1 | 7 |
| 2022 | 8 | 2 |
| 2023 | 1 | 3 |
| 2024 | 6 | 5 |
| 2025 | 4 | 2 |
| 2026 | 3 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Reading voxels in an optical storage medium using off-axis lighting28 Jul 2026US 12,694,901 B1Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Laser diode for heat-assisted magnetic recording, and related apparatuses, devices, systems, and methods23 Jun 2026US 12,664,999 B1Seagate Technology LLC
- P-metal electrical contact of laser diode for heat-assisted magnetic recording, and related apparatuses, data storage devices, systems, and methods14 Apr 2026US 12,603,109 B1Seagate Technology LLC
- Hybrid digital and analog data storage4 Nov 2025US 12,462,841 B2Ceramic Data Solutions GmbH
- Generating multiple beams of a harmonic frequency4 Nov 2025US 12,463,397 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
- Hybrid Digital and Analog Data Storage17 Apr 2025US 2025/0124952 A1Ceramic Data Solutions GmbH
- Method for encoding information by valley polarization in a material13 Mar 2025US 2025/0085575 A1Forschungsverbund Berlin E.V.
- Method and system for writing voxels to a transparent substrate3 Oct 2024US 2024/0331731 A1Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Improvements in optical data storage8 Aug 2024US 2024/0265941 A1University of South Australia
Most cited
By later US patents
- Methods and apparatus for forward-directed optical scanning instruments1,184US 6,485,413 B1The General Hospital Corporation · 2002
- Method and apparatus for performing optical measurements using a fiber optic imaging guidewire, catheter or endoscope1,079US 6,134,003 AMassachusetts Institute of Technology · 2000
- Fiber optic needle probes for optical coherence tomography imaging722US 6,564,087 B1Massachusetts Institute of Technology · 2003
- Fiber optic imaging endoscope interferometer with at least one faraday rotator710US 6,501,551 B1Massachusetts Institute of Technology · 2002
- Grating based phase control optical delay line535US 6,111,645 AMassachusetts Institute of Technology · 2000