Imation Assigned Patent

Imation Corp., Oakdale, MN , has been assigned a patent (8,930,651) developed by Kerns Randy, Boulder, CO, for a “archiving system with partitions of individual archives.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “According to the disclosure, a unique and novel archiving system that provides one or more application layer partitions to archive data is disclosed. Embodiments include an archiving system having removable hard disk drives embedded in removable disk cartridges, referred to simply as removable disk drives. In embodiments, the removable disk drives are electrically connected to one or more drive ports that are separately addressable. The archiving system can create application layer partitions that associate the application layer partitions with one or more drive ports. Each application layer partition, in embodiments, has a separate set of controls that allow for customized storage of different data within a single archiving system.”

The patent application was filed on August 27, 2008 (12/199,264)