ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,438, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Holographic storage" was invented by Douglas James Kelly (Cambridge, Great Britain), Benn Charles Thomsen (Cambridge, Great Britain), Dushyanth Narayanan (Cambridge, Great Britain), Antony Ian Taylor Rowstron (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Andreas Georgiou (Cambridge, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A holographic data storage system comprises an emitter system, a holographic recording medium, and an input waveguide network formed of one or more multimode optical waveguides. The holographic recording medium has multiple recording...