Battelle Memorial Institute Assigned Patent

Battelle Memorial Institute, Richland, WA, has been assigned a patent (10,295,677) developed by Gotthold, David W., Stevens, Andrew J., Browning, Nigel D., Jensen, Eric, Canfield, Nathan L., and Joly, Alan G., Richland, WA, for “systems and methods for data storage and retrieval.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A method includes directing a probe beam to a target that includes an array of data portions in a data storage medium arranged so that a beam area of the probe beam extends across a plurality of adjacent data portions, the array including a data portion subset with each data portion of the subset responsive to the probe beam to produce a response illumination, receiving the response illumination at a detector, and determining data values corresponding to the plurality of adjacent data portions based on the received response illumination. Apparatus and systems are also disclosed.”

The patent application was filed on May 8, 2017 (15/589,413).