ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,841, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Ceramic Data Solutions GmbH (Gmunden, Austria).
"Hybrid digital and analog data storage" was invented by Martin Kunze (Gmunden, Austria) and Christian Pflaum (Bernried, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method of concurrently storing visible grey scale or color information of an image and additional digital information on a data carrier."
The patent was filed on Dec. 20, 2024, under Application No. 18/991,290.
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