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Setsuko Masuda — 59 Patents

IBM: 56 patents #1,457 of 70,183Top 3%
DBDsm Ip Assets B.V.: 1 patents #1,007 of 2,011Top 55%
Hoffmann-La Roche: 1 patents #1,850 of 3,238Top 60%
RVRoche Vitamins: 1 patents #92 of 198Top 50%
Toshima, JP: #1 of 127 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #40,067 of 4,157,543Top 1%
59 Patents All Time
Setsuko Masuda has been granted 59 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1981 and the most recent in September 2025. Setsuko Masuda ranks #40,067 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.96%). Patent records list Setsuko Masuda in Toshima, JP.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 59 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12417046 Tape drive repositioning Tsuyoshi Miyamura 2025-09-16
12347469 Repositioning operation on a tape medium based on dataset information Tsuyoshi Miyamura 2025-07-01
12217776 Tape drive write across write error Tsuyoshi Miyamura 2025-02-04
12190910 Recalling data from tape Tsuyoshi Miyamura, Tatsuki Sawada 2025-01-07
12119031 Full data set directory for magnetic tape recording media Tsuyoshi Miyamura, Tatsuki Sawada 2024-10-15 $17,235,000
12020731 Minimizing high resolution tape directory recovery time Tsuyoshi Miyamura 2024-06-25 $10,690,000
11955140 Reducing deviation of read head position between writing and reading in a magnetic tape Tatsuki Sawada, Tsuyoshi Miyamura, Mitsuhiro Nishida 2024-04-09 $10,928,000
11907048 Scaling media utilizing healthy regions of a tape cartridge Tsuyoshi Miyamura, Mitsuhiro Nishida, Tatsuki Sawada 2024-02-20 $7,691,000
11789795 Using a cut and paste segment for reading a standard housekeeping data set Tsuyoshi Miyamura, Mitsuhiro Nishida, Tatsuki Sawada 2023-10-17 $7,011,000
11688431 Tape reposition management in a tape data storage drive Tsuyoshi Miyamura, Atsushi Abe 2023-06-27 $4,778,000
11635914 Locating data within tape systems using sub dataset headers Tsuyoshi Miyamura, Keisuke Tanaka 2023-04-25 $8,760,000
11620089 Non-volatile storage of high resolution tape directory Atsushi Abe, Tsuyoshi Miyamura 2023-04-04 $5,091,000
11437070 Repositioning using cut and paste segments Tsuyoshi Miyamura, Mitsuhiro Nishida, Tatsuki Sawada 2022-09-06 $10,660,000
11195546 Data storage beyond a threshold tape position Atsushi Abe, Tsuyoshi Miyamura 2021-12-07 $3,115,000
11176968 Buffered writing of datasets and end longitudinal positions (end LPOSs) on a magnetic recording tape and validating the end LPOSs during reading of a later dataset thereafter Tsuyoshi Miyamura 2021-11-16 $1,912,000
11106364 Fast locate using imitation reads on tape drives Atsushi Abe 2021-08-31 $6,618,000
11099737 Fast locate using imitation reads on tape drives Atsushi Abe 2021-08-24 $4,861,000
11099738 Fast locate using imitation reads on tape drives Atsushi Abe 2021-08-24 $4,861,000
11087797 Tape storage system including at least two tape storage apparatuses for improved writing of data to be synchronized Atsushi Abe, Takashi Katagiri, Motoko Oe, Yutaka Oishi, Noriko Yamamoto +1 more 2021-08-10 $4,960,000
11056140 High resolution tape directory recovery by writing a null data set Tsuyoshi Miyamura, Hironobu Nagura 2021-07-06 $5,313,000
10832703 Detection of off-track reads between wraps located in different tape partitions Tsuyoshi Miyamura 2020-11-10 $848,000
10818314 Storing multiple instances of a housekeeping data set on a magnetic recording tape Tsuyoshi Miyamura 2020-10-27 $6,165,000
10818319 Read error recovery in a tape drive Tsuyoshi Miyamura 2020-10-27 $6,165,000
10497391 Rewinding a tape medium Tsuyoshi Miyamura, Eiji Ogura 2019-12-03 $6,493,000
10423336 Fast locate using imitation reads on tape drives Atsushi Abe 2019-09-24 $3,094,000