Invention Science Fund I Assigned Patent

The Invention Science Fund I, LLC, Bellevue, WA, has been assigned a patent (8,279,545) developed by six co-inventors for a "high bandwidth data transfer to and from rotating data storage devices."

The co-inventors are W. Daniel Hillis, Encino, CA, Roderick A. Hyde, Redmond, WA, Muriel Y. Ishikawa, Livermore, CA, Edward K.Y. Jung, Bellevue, WA, Nathan P. Myhrvold, Medina, WA, and Lowell L. Wood Jr., Bellevue, WA.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method of transferring data of one or more rotatable data storage devices includes but is not limited to rotating the at least one rotatable data storage device; transferring the data between a plurality of stationary data transfer heads and the one or more rotatable data storage devices; and using one or more computer programs to determine which of the plurality of stationary data transfer heads are to be used to transfer a first portion of the data between the plurality of stationary data transfer heads and the one or more rotatable data storage devices and the direction in which the first portion of the data is to be transferred. In addition to the foregoing, other method aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present application. Other methods and apparatuses are also disclosed."

The patent application was filed on May 1, 2007 (11/799,738).