General Electric Assigned Patent

General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY, has been assigned a patent (8,427,912) developed by five co-inventors for a "system and method for tracking in single-bit holographic storage."

The co-inventors are Victor Petrovich Ostroverkhov, Ballston Lake, NY, Brian Lee Lawrence, Xiaolei Shi, Niskayuna, NY, Zhiyuan Ren, Malta, NY, and Zexin Pan, Madison, AL.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for controlling tracking in a holographic storage system, including: impinging a beam on a holographic data disc, wherein the beam is reflected from a micro-hologram disposed within the holographic data disc; detecting the reflected beam from the holographic data disc by a multi-element detector; and analyzing a pattern detected by multi-element detector to generate a tracking error signal."

The patent application was filed on Dec. 30, 2008 (12/346,279).