Samsung Assigned Patent

Samsung Electronics, Seoul, South Korea, has been assigned a patent (8,358,572) developed by Curt N. Van Lydegraf, Eagle, Idaho, Donald J. Fasen, and Richard L. Hilton, Boise, ID, for "a data storage device."

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A storage device includes a first read mechanism, a second read mechanism, and a storage medium movable with respect to the first read mechanism and the second read mechanism. A first reference patch containing reference bits is positioned near a first corner of the storage medium. The first read mechanism is configured to read the reference bits of the first reference patch and the second read mechanism is configured to read the reference bits of a second reference patch. The storage device also includes a controller configured to determine whether the first read mechanism and the storage medium are offset with respect to each other based upon the reference bits read by the first read mechanism and the reference bits read by the second mechanism."

The patent application was filed on June 7, 2005 (11/146,790).