Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Assigned Patent

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka, Japan, has been assigned a patent (11,295,779) developed by Nakata, Kohei, Nara, Japan, and Kobayashi, Yasushi, Osaka, Japan, for an “optical disk device.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “The present disclosure provides an optical disk device capable of reproducing data recorded on a high linear density optical disk stably. The optical disk device according to the disclosure is characterized by being equipped with a recording expected waveform generation circuit which generates, at the time of recording, an expected waveform that is expected to be obtained at the time of decoding, and a recording pulse generation circuit which generates a recording pulse for driving a laser with power and a time width suitable for an amplitude value of the recording expected waveform for each sampling point of the recording expected waveform.”

The patent application was filed on November 8, 2019 (17/281,686).