G11B 7/128
Modulators
Official title: Modulators (G11B7/1245 takes precedence)
G11B7/128 (Modulators) appears on 288 US grants and 232 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G11B- Granted patents
- 288
- Published applications
- 232
- Assignees
- 116
- Inventors
- 520
- Latest grant
- 28 Jul 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 2 | 0 |
| 1977 | 4 | 0 |
| 1978 | 5 | 0 |
| 1979 | 4 | 0 |
| 1980 | 4 | 0 |
| 1981 | 3 | 0 |
| 1982 | 0 | 0 |
| 1983 | 0 | 0 |
| 1984 | 1 | 0 |
| 1985 | 1 | 0 |
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| 1989 | 2 | 0 |
| 1990 | 0 | 0 |
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| 1992 | 2 | 0 |
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| 1994 | 4 | 0 |
| 1995 | 3 | 0 |
| 1996 | 7 | 0 |
| 1997 | 10 | 0 |
| 1998 | 6 | 0 |
| 1999 | 8 | 0 |
| 2000 | 9 | 0 |
| 2001 | 10 | 3 |
| 2002 | 11 | 13 |
| 2003 | 9 | 14 |
| 2004 | 9 | 15 |
| 2005 | 10 | 24 |
| 2006 | 22 | 22 |
| 2007 | 13 | 29 |
| 2008 | 9 | 28 |
| 2009 | 12 | 28 |
| 2010 | 18 | 19 |
| 2011 | 16 | 4 |
| 2012 | 23 | 6 |
| 2013 | 9 | 6 |
| 2014 | 5 | 2 |
| 2015 | 3 | 4 |
| 2016 | 1 | 2 |
| 2017 | 1 | 3 |
| 2018 | 3 | 2 |
| 2019 | 3 | 1 |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 |
| 2021 | 0 | 3 |
| 2022 | 3 | 0 |
| 2023 | 1 | 3 |
| 2024 | 2 | 1 |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 |
| 2026 | 2 | 0 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Reading voxels in an optical storage medium using off-axis lighting28 Jul 2026US 12,694,901 B1Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Data recording on ceramic material12 May 2026US 12,626,722 B2Ceramic Data Solutions GmbH
- Information verification method and related device9 Dec 2025US 12,494,226 B1Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
- Data reading and writing apparatuses and data reading and writing methods24 Sep 2024US 12,100,435 B2Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
- Method for reading and writing with holographic storage system and holographic storage system9 Jul 2024US 12,033,680 B1National Central University
- Data Recording on Ceramic Material29 Feb 2024US 2024/0071418 A1Ceramic Data Solutions GmbH
- Data reading and writing apparatuses and data reading and writing methods30 Mar 2023US 2023/0097007 A1Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
- Optical system for holographic storage and design method for fresnel lens and meta lens thereof16 Feb 2023US 2023/0047873 A1Amethystum Storage Technology Co., Ltd.
- Data Recording on Ceramic Material26 Jan 2023US 2023/0022788 A1Ceramic Data Solutions GmbH
- Information recording device, information playback device, information recording medium, method, and program19 Aug 2021US 2021/0257000 A1Sony Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Fiber optic needle probes for optical coherence tomography imaging722US 6,564,087 B1Massachusetts Institute of Technology · 2003
- Apparatus and method for accessing data on multilayered optical media317US 5,784,352 AMassachusetts Institute of Technology · 1998
- Method for recording and reproducing information, apparatus therefor and recording medium175US 5,638,103 ADai Nippon Printing Co.Ltd. · 1997
- Near-field optical probe94US 7,015,455 B2Seiko Instruments Inc. · 2006
- Method for recording and reproducing information, apparatus therefor and recording medium64US 5,161,233 ADai Nippon Printing Co.Ltd. · 1992