Lite-On Electronics and Lite-On Technology Assigned Patent

Lite-On Electronics (Guangzhou) Ltd., Guangzhou, China, and Lite-On Technology Corp., Tapei, Taiwan, has been assigned a patent (11,094,348) developed by Huang, Cheng-Wen, Taipei, Taiwan, for “disc library storage system and disc cartridge used thereof.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A disc library storage system and a disc cartridge thereof are provided. The disc library storage system includes a disc library, a disc drive tower, a disc transport device and a disc changing device. The disc library accommodates multiple discs. The disc drive tower accommodates multiple disc drives. The disc drives read data of the discs. The disc transport device moves the discs from the disc library to the disc drive tower and to the disc library. The disc changing device places a disc cartridge including an outer casing and a disc tray. The disc tray accommodates at least one replacement disc. The disc changing device has a pull-out state, in which the disc tray is received in the outer casing, and a close state, in which the disc tray is drawn from the outer casing and the disc transport device unloads the replacement disc from the disc tray.”

The patent application was filed on December 3, 2019 (16/701,643).