General Electric Assigned Patent
Dual-beam recording and readout of multilayered optical storage media
By Francis Pelletier | June 29, 2016 at 2:53 pmGeneral Electric Company (GE), Schenectady, NY, has been assigned a patent (9,373,351) developed by Ostroverkhov, Victor Petrovich, Ballston Lake, NY, Welles, Kenneth Brakeley, Scotia, NY, Lawrence, Brian Lee, Shi, Xiaolei, Niskayuna, NY, Ren, Zhiyuan, Malta, NY, Cheverton, Mark, Mechanicville, NY, and Kusch, Ruediger, Clifton Park, NY, for a “system and method for dual-beam recording and readout of multilayered optical data storage media.”
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A system and method of operating a dual-beam detection system of a holographic data storage disc, including: impinging a data beam on a data layer of the holographic data storage disc, impinging a tracking beam on a tracking element of the holographic data storage disc, detecting a reflection of the tracking beam from the tracking element, and coordinating position of the data beam relative to the tracking beam.“
The patent application was filed on December 31, 2008 (12/347,178).
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