Hie Electronics Assigned Patent

Hie Electronics, Inc., McKinney, TX, has been assigned a patent (8,578,401) developed by Robert Burns Douglass, Thomas Marshall Humm, McKinney, TX, and John Aden Mosher, Longmont, CO, for a “scalable integrated high density optical data/media storage delivery system.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “An apparatus and system for recording, playing, handling, and storing a plurality of media disks in a plurality of configurations and a device for moving any disk into and out of a media disk storage mechanism and into or out of a selected media player/recorder on demand, and a controller for directing operation of the device for moving the disks and controlling selection of operation of the media disk storage mechanism. “

The patent application was filed on Aug. 27, 2012 (13/595,680).