Case Western Reserve University Assigned Patent

Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, has been assigned a patent (10,229,709) developed by Singer, Kenneth D., Pepper Pike, OH, Ryan, Chris, Ravenna, OH, Shan, Jie, Cleveland Heights, OH, Lott, Joseph, Edina, MN, Weder, Christoph, Duedingen, Switzerland, Valle, Brent, and Baer, Eric, Cleveland Heights, OH, for an “optical information storage medium.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”An optical information storage medium includes a multilayer film that includes a plurality of extruded alternating active data storage layers and buffer layers, which separate the active data storage layers. The active data storage layers and buffer layers have thicknesses that allow the active data storage layers to be writable by non-linear or threshold writing processes to define data voxels within the active data storage layers that are readable by an optical reading device.”

The patent application was filed on February 11, 2016 (15/041,928).