HPE and Quantum Assigned Patent

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP, Houston, TX, and Quantum Corporation, San Jose, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,792,928) developed by Holmberg, Mike Alan, Eagle, ID, Hampton, John D., Meridian, ID, Goker, Turguy, Solana Beach, CA, Brummet, Robert, Louisville, CO, and Lee, JaeWook, Irvine, CA, for a “tape storage device having at least one redundant read data element.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A technique includes in a data storage device, sensing a plurality of data streams from a track of storage media as the media moves in a given direction using a plurality of read elements such that at least one of the read elements is redundant. The technique includes combining the data streams to generate a data stream indicating data read from the track.”

The patent application was filed on November 2, 2012 (13/667,421).