Imation Assigned Patent

Imation Corp., Oakdale, MN, has been assigned a patent (9,116,900) developed by Bondurant, Matthew D., Superior, CO, and Alaimo, S. Christopher, Boulder, CO, for a “methods for controlling remote archiving systems.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a unique and novel archiving system that includes two or more network storage systems, each network storage system including removable hard disk drives embedded in removable disk cartridges, referred to simply as removable disk drives. The removable disk drives allow for expandability and replacement such that the archiving system need not be duplicated to add new or more storage capacity. In embodiments, the archiving system accesses, writes, reads, or performs functions on data from one network storage system to another remote network storage system.“

The patent application was filed on October 18, 2013 (14/057,901).