G11B 7/243
Comprising inorganic materials only
Official title: comprising inorganic materials only, e.g. ablative layers
G11B7/243 (Comprising inorganic materials only) appears on 1,586 US grants and 1,094 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G11B- Granted patents
- 1,586
- Published applications
- 1,094
- Assignees
- 286
- Inventors
- 2,078
- Latest grant
- 12 May 2026
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| 2022 | 2 | 1 |
| 2023 | 4 | 4 |
| 2024 | 5 | 7 |
| 2025 | 4 | 3 |
| 2026 | 3 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Data recording on ceramic material12 May 2026US 12,626,722 B2Ceramic Data Solutions GmbH
- Method for long-term storage of information and storage medium therefor7 Apr 2026US 12,594,629 B2Ceramic Data Solutions GmbH
- Contact lens with improved tear film optical quality27 Jan 2026US 12,534,623 B2Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.
- Storage mediums and methods of making the same30 Sep 2025US 12,431,164 B2Corning Incorporated
- Mn—Ta—W—Cu—O-based sputtering target, and production method therefor6 May 2025US 12,293,906 B2Dexerials Corporation
- Compact Writing and Reading Head for Hyper Speed Data Recording on Ceramic Material28 May 2026US 2026/0148751 A1Ceramic Data Solutions GmbH
- Recording medium, method for recording information, and method for reading information6 Feb 2025US 2025/0046341 A1Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
- Compact Writing and Reading Head for Data Recording on Ceramic Material23 Jan 2025US 2025/0026139 A1Ceramic Data Solutions GmbH
- Ultra-Thin Data Carrier and Method of Read-Out16 Jan 2025US 2025/0021781 A1Ceramic Data Solutions GmbH
- Method for Long-Term Storage of Information and Storage Medium Therefor19 Dec 2024US 2024/0416458 A1Ceramic Data Solution GMBH
Most cited
By later US patents
- Grooved optical data storage device including a chalcogenide memory layer258US 4,719,594 AEnergy Conversion Devices, Inc. · 1988
- 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
- Optical recording medium having a plurality of discrete phase change data recording points198US 5,591,501 AEnergy Conversion Devices, Inc. · 1997
- Data storage medium incorporating a transition metal for increased switching speed191US 4,710,899 AEnergy Conversion Devices, Inc. · 1987
- Congruent state changeable optical memory material and device183US 5,128,099 AEnergy Conversion Devices, Inc. · 1992