- All sections
- G - Physics
- G11B - Information storage based on relative movement between record carrier and transducer
- G11B 5/60 - Fluid-dynamic spacing of heads from record carriers
Patent holdings for IPC class G11B 5/60
Total number of patents in this class: 1258
10-year publication summary
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147
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103
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102
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95
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94
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56
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48
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40
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42
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22
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| 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
Principal owners for this class
| Owner |
All patents
|
This class
|
|---|---|---|
| Seagate Technology LLC | 3969 |
461 |
| JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association | 8565 |
286 |
| Headway Technologies, Inc. | 693 |
73 |
| SAE Magnetics (H.K.) Ltd. | 328 |
60 |
| Toshiba Corporation | 12367 |
57 |
| Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation | 1982 |
40 |
| TDK Corporation | 6761 |
31 |
| Konica Minolta Opto, Inc. | 1073 |
26 |
| Hitachi, Ltd. | 15513 |
14 |
| Western Digital Technologies, Inc. | 1755 |
14 |
| Toshiba Storage Device Corporation | 55 |
14 |
| Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited | 8748 |
14 |
| Nitto Denko Corporation | 8253 |
13 |
| International Business Machines Corporation | 61305 |
12 |
| Seiko Instruments Inc. | 498 |
11 |
| Fujitsu Limited | 18402 |
9 |
| Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd. | 4091 |
9 |
| Magnecomp Corporation | 201 |
8 |
| Marvell Asia PTE, Ltd. | 6530 |
8 |
| NHK Spring Co., Ltd. | 1870 |
7 |
| Other owners | 91 |