LSI Assigned Patent

LSI Corp., Milpitas, CA, has been assigned a patent (8,151,121) developed by seven co-inventors for a secure data storage.

They are Terrence L. Wong, San Francisco, CA, Ian E. Harvey, Lake Forest, CA, David C. Lee, Alameda, CA, Greg S. Lewis, Berkeley, CA, Steven R. Spielman, Oakland, CA, Christopher C. Tan, Alameda, CA, and David K. Warland, Davis, CA.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Securely storing data to an optical disc has been described, including generating write data that includes the data and overhead data that facilitates reading the data from the disc; and configuring the overhead data according to a key."

The patent application was filed on March 11, 2003 (10/387,232).