IBM Assigned Two Patents

Optical disc drive
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, has been assigned a patent (9,741,390) developed by Altknecht, David J., Best, John S., Bethune, Donald S., Dyer, William M., Erpelding, A. David, San Jose, CA, Hetzler, Steven R., Los Altos, CA, Lawson, Drew B., Aptos, CA, and Smith, Daniel F., Felton, CA, for a “optical disc drive.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “An optical disc drive includes a spindle connected to an optical assembly. A disc clamp device is configured to hold an optical disc on the spindle. A contiguous opening on at least two adjacent sides in a plane of a disc mount position intersect at a common corner of the optical disc drive.“

The patent application was filed on March 23, 2016 (15/078,857).

High performance robotic optical storage
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, has been assigned a patent (9,741,389) developed by Altknecht, David J., Best, John S., Bethune, Donald S., Dyer, William M., Erpelding, A. David, San Jose, CA, Hetzler, Steven R., Los Altos, CA, Lawson, Drew B., Aptos, CA, and Smith, Daniel F., Felton, CA, for a “high performance robotic optical storage system.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “An apparatus includes one or more disc media cassettes configured to store multiple disc-based media. Multiple disc drives are configured to read and write data to the multiple disc-based media. A robotic delivery device is configured to transport a selected disc-based media to and from at least one disc drive of the multiple disc drives, and to transport the selected disc-based media directly to a spindle on the at least one disc drive.“

The patent application was filed on February 17, 2016 (15/046,395).