Shanghai Naguang Information Technology Assigned Patent

Shanghai Naguang Information Technology Corp., Shanghai, China, has been assigned a patent (10,614,848) developed by Gu, Min, Doncaster, Australia, Cao, Yaoyu, Guangzhou, China, Gan, Zongsong, Hawthorn, Australia, Li, Xiangping, Guangzhou, China, Mashford, Benjamin, Essendon, Australia, Ren, Haoran, Bundoora, Australia, and Zhang, Qiming, Hawthorn, Australia, for “media, systems and methods for optical data storage.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Provided are media, systems and methods for optical data storage. A nanocomposite material for use as an optical data recording medium comprises nanoparticles embedded in a host matrix, wherein the host matrix comprises a material having a high structural stability, and the nanoparticles comprise optical functional components having a first physical or chemical state and a property of permanent transition to a second physical or chemical state upon exposure to corresponding optical radiation, whereby information may be recorded in the first and second physical or chemical states of the optical functional components over an extended time period.”

The patent application was filed on September 29, 2016 (15,765,267).