IBM Assigned Patent

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, has been assigned a patent (9,691,482) developed by Garro, Pablo Barquero, Ugalde, Ricardo Golcher, San Jose, Costa Rica, Portela, Franz Friedrich Liebinger, Heredia, Costa Rica, and Nunez, Meller Javier Perez, San Jose, Costa Rica, for a “optical storage device utilizing quantum silos.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “An optical storage device utilizing quantum silos includes a multiplicity of quantum silos in a substrate. Each silo includes one or more quantum dots and a multiplicity of crystals of an orthogonal shape surrounding a quantum dot. The crystals are positioned in an array at each corner, a set of mirrors are positioned at remaining cells of a perimeter of the array and an orthogonally shaped crystal surrounding a quantum dot is positioned at an interior cell. A set of receivers surrounds each silo and points inwardly towards the perimeter. A storage layer is formed by a matrix of the silos with alternate matrix cells marking a position of a corresponding silo and remaining cells transporting data from the silos. A reading and a writing layer are sandwiched beneath the storage layer and multiple sandwiched layers are stacked to form a storage unit with an igniter layer disposed therebetween.“

The patent application was filed on October 31, 2016 (15/339,902).