G11B 7/24085
Pits
G11B7/24085 (Pits) appears on 1,166 US grants and 710 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G11B- Granted patents
- 1,166
- Published applications
- 710
- Assignees
- 212
- Inventors
- 1,432
- Latest grant
- 9 Dec 2025
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| 1976 | 5 | 0 |
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| 1999 | 39 | 0 |
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| 2001 | 48 | 35 |
| 2002 | 54 | 76 |
| 2003 | 58 | 65 |
| 2004 | 60 | 67 |
| 2005 | 31 | 95 |
| 2006 | 91 | 81 |
| 2007 | 54 | 74 |
| 2008 | 60 | 57 |
| 2009 | 46 | 40 |
| 2010 | 42 | 31 |
| 2011 | 27 | 15 |
| 2012 | 22 | 15 |
| 2013 | 22 | 13 |
| 2014 | 17 | 7 |
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| 2017 | 8 | 6 |
| 2018 | 7 | 6 |
| 2019 | 2 | 1 |
| 2020 | 1 | 1 |
| 2021 | 0 | 2 |
| 2022 | 2 | 0 |
| 2023 | 1 | 1 |
| 2024 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 1 | 4 |
| 2026 | 0 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Nanostructuring from optical recording media9 Dec 2025US 12,494,227 B2The Board of Regents of the Nevada System of Higher Education On Behalf of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas
- Phase-modulated optical data storage10 Dec 2024US 12,165,682 B2Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Method for playing back information recording medium13 Jun 2023US 11,676,634 B2Memory-Tech Holdings Inc.
- Recording apparatus, recording method, reproduction apparatus, reproduction method, recording medium, encoding apparatus, and decoding apparatus6 Dec 2022US 11,521,651 B2Sony Corporation
- Information recording device, information playback device, information recording medium and method for multi-values recording optical disc7 Jun 2022US 11,355,149 B2Sony Corporation
- Nanostructuring from optical recording media28 May 2026US 2026/0148752 A1Board of Regents of the Nevada System of Higher Education, on behalf of the University of Nevada
- Nanostructuring from Optical Recording Media25 Sep 2025US 2025/0299696 A1Board of Regents of the Nevada System of Higher Education, on behalf of the University of Nevada
- Phase-modulated optical data storage13 Mar 2025US 2025/0087240 A1Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Recording medium, method for recording information, and method for reading information13 Feb 2025US 2025/0054515 A1Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
- Recording medium, method for recording information, and method for reading information6 Feb 2025US 2025/0046341 A1Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Multimedia optical disk, reproduction apparatus and method for achieving variable scene development based on interactive control381US 5,907,658 AMatsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. · 1999
- Multimedia optical disc for storing audio data and sub-picture data in a plurality of channels as well as moving picture data and apparatus and method for reproducing the multimedia optical disc261US 6,088,507 AMatsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. · 2000
- Optical recording medium having a plurality of discrete phase change data recording points198US 5,591,501 AEnergy Conversion Devices, Inc. · 1997
- Optical disk capable of recording information on both groove and land tracks152US 5,508,995 AMatsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. · 1996
- Method for controlling access to recorded data143US 4,677,604 ASelsys Corporation · 1987