General Electric Assigned Two Patents

Manage storage of data
to multiple removable storage mediums

General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY, has been assigned a patent (8,316,055) developed by Adrian Warner, Delafield, WI, Claudio Mejia, Wauwatosa, WI, and Timothy Stiemke, West Bend, WI, for a "system and method to manage storage of data to multiple removable data storage mediums."

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method to manage data acquired from a medical device is provided. The system can detect a spare capacity to store a file of data associated with a unique patient identifier acquired from the medical device to a first removable data storage medium, can detect the first removable data storage medium to be below a threshold spare capacity to receive the file of data associated with unique patient identifier acquired from the medical device, and can automatically cause to stop communicating data for storage to the first removable data storage medium and to start communicating the file of data associated with the unique patient identifier for storage to a second removable data storage medium, and can create a graphic display illustrative of the removable data storage medium that is active to receive the file of data associated with the unique patient identifier."

The patent application was filed on Sept. 10, 2009 (12/557,134).

Mastering and replication
of micro-holographic storage media

General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY, has been assigned a patent (8,345,334) developed by seven co-inventors for a "mastering and replication of micro-holographic data storage media."

The co-inventors are Xiaolei Shi, Niskayuna, NY, Kenneth Brakeley Welles, Scotia, NY, John Erik Hershey, Ballston Lake, NY, John Anderson Fergus Ross, Niskayuna, NY, Brian Lee Lawrence, Niskayuna, NY, Zhiyuan Ren, Malta, NY, and Victor Petrovich Ostroverkhov, Ballston Lake, NY.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for replicating optical data storage discs (e.g., holographic data storage discs) having multiple layers of data. Master discs providing for respective single layers of data are utilized, and each respective single layer of data from the master discs are replicate onto the optical data storage disc."

The patent application was filed on Dec. 31, 2005 (12/347,211).