G11B 7/24003
Shapes of record carriers other than disc shape
G11B7/24003 (Shapes of record carriers other than disc shape) appears on 186 US grants and 196 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G11B- Granted patents
- 186
- Published applications
- 196
- Assignees
- 81
- Inventors
- 281
- Latest grant
- 14 Apr 2026
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| 1985 | 1 | 0 |
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| 1987 | 2 | 0 |
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| 1989 | 4 | 0 |
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| 2001 | 2 | 4 |
| 2002 | 8 | 7 |
| 2003 | 7 | 12 |
| 2004 | 8 | 15 |
| 2005 | 7 | 14 |
| 2006 | 9 | 23 |
| 2007 | 12 | 17 |
| 2008 | 23 | 28 |
| 2009 | 18 | 23 |
| 2010 | 23 | 14 |
| 2011 | 13 | 7 |
| 2012 | 5 | 3 |
| 2013 | 3 | 4 |
| 2014 | 5 | 4 |
| 2015 | 3 | 5 |
| 2016 | 8 | 7 |
| 2017 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 4 | 2 |
| 2019 | 2 | 0 |
| 2020 | 1 | 1 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 |
| 2023 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026 | 1 | 2 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Magnetic storage media having partitions without guard wraps14 Apr 2026US 12,603,110 B2International Business Machines Corporation
- Thermal medium and laser recording device26 Mar 2024US 11,942,125 B2Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Positioning method and device for hologram in card-type holographic storage medium17 May 2022US 11,335,370 B2Amethystum Storage Technology Co., Ltd.
- Multichannel tape recording device having calibrated span of transducers10 Nov 2020US 10,832,713 B2International Business Machines Corporation
- Optical medium having a linear track27 Aug 2019US 10,395,686 B2Sony Corporation of America
- Magnetic storage media having partitions without guard wraps26 Feb 2026US 2026/0057906 A1International Business Machines Corporation
- Security tag29 Jan 2026US 2026/0028465 A1Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
- Human-readable extremely high density permanent data storage22 May 2025US 2025/0166659 A1Brigham Young University
- Thermal medium and laser recording device19 Jan 2023US 2023/0019146 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Positioning method and device for hologram in card-type holographic storage medium22 Jul 2021US 2021/0225403 A1Amethystum Storage Technology Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Optical data card79US 4,812,633 AMinnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company · 1989
- Calling card43US 6,016,298 AAdivan High Tech AG · 2000
- Optical recording card with optical recording layers41US 4,673,626 ADai Nippon Insatsu Kabushiki Kaisha · 1987
- Optical data storage system with multiple write-once phase-change recording layers39US 5,555,537 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 1996
- Information recording medium30US 6,744,725 B2Victor Company of Japan, Ltd. · 2004