G11B 7/241
Characterised by the selection of the material
Official title: characterised by the selection of the material
G11B7/241 (Characterised by the selection of the material) appears on 4,040 US grants and 3,033 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G11B- Granted patents
- 4,040
- Published applications
- 3,033
- Assignees
- 741
- Inventors
- 5,792
- Latest grant
- 8 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 6 | 0 |
| 1977 | 4 | 0 |
| 1978 | 6 | 0 |
| 1979 | 2 | 0 |
| 1980 | 17 | 0 |
| 1981 | 32 | 0 |
| 1982 | 27 | 0 |
| 1983 | 33 | 0 |
| 1984 | 28 | 0 |
| 1985 | 39 | 0 |
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| 1987 | 81 | 0 |
| 1988 | 94 | 0 |
| 1989 | 110 | 0 |
| 1990 | 120 | 0 |
| 1991 | 129 | 0 |
| 1992 | 123 | 0 |
| 1993 | 151 | 0 |
| 1994 | 113 | 0 |
| 1995 | 115 | 0 |
| 1996 | 105 | 0 |
| 1997 | 109 | 0 |
| 1998 | 106 | 0 |
| 1999 | 130 | 0 |
| 2000 | 130 | 0 |
| 2001 | 149 | 72 |
| 2002 | 136 | 203 |
| 2003 | 155 | 264 |
| 2004 | 167 | 294 |
| 2005 | 152 | 330 |
| 2006 | 168 | 335 |
| 2007 | 124 | 260 |
| 2008 | 149 | 225 |
| 2009 | 117 | 229 |
| 2010 | 139 | 222 |
| 2011 | 133 | 130 |
| 2012 | 152 | 83 |
| 2013 | 125 | 66 |
| 2014 | 106 | 94 |
| 2015 | 54 | 28 |
| 2016 | 25 | 21 |
| 2017 | 21 | 16 |
| 2018 | 16 | 20 |
| 2019 | 12 | 15 |
| 2020 | 9 | 17 |
| 2021 | 13 | 23 |
| 2022 | 11 | 17 |
| 2023 | 17 | 14 |
| 2024 | 13 | 25 |
| 2025 | 12 | 23 |
| 2026 | 7 | 7 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Phase-modulated optical data storage8 Sep 2026US 12,731,610 B2Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Compound, polymerizable composition, polymer, holographic recording medium, optical material, and optical component25 Aug 2026US 12,717,227 B2Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
- Non-volatile data storage medium and system25 Aug 2026US 12,718,843 B2Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne (Epfl)
- Writing and reading fluorescent optical storage media using Bessel beams18 Aug 2026US 12,711,988 B1Seagate Technology LLC
- Data recording on ceramic material12 May 2026US 12,626,722 B2Ceramic Data Solutions GmbH
- Drawing apparatus and method of forming drawn object18 Jun 2026US 2026/0166890 A1Sony Group Corporation
- Compact Writing and Reading Head for Hyper Speed Data Recording on Ceramic Material28 May 2026US 2026/0148751 A1Ceramic Data Solutions GmbH
- 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
- Specific Benzopyrylium Salts as Dyestuffs for Photopolymer Compositions26 Mar 2026US 2026/0085188 A1Covestro Deutschland AG
- Alkali-free glass sheet12 Mar 2026US 2026/0070834 A1Nippon Electric Glass Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Process of aligning and realigning liquid crystal media259US 4,974,941 AHercules Incorporated · 1990
- Grooved optical data storage device including a chalcogenide memory layer258US 4,719,594 AEnergy Conversion Devices, Inc. · 1988
- Hybridization of polynucleotides conjugated with chromophores and fluorophores to generate donor-to-donor energy transfer system232US 5,849,489 ANanogen, Inc. · 1998
- Hybridization of polynucleotides conjugated with chromophores and fluorophores to generate donor-to donor energy transfer system227US 5,565,322 ANanogen, Inc. · 1996
- Sputtering target, method of producing the target, optical recording medium fabricated by using the sputtering target, and method of fabricating the optical recording medium220US 6,280,684 B1Ricoh Company, Ltd. · 2001