ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,289, issued on May 13, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Holographic storage" was invented by Jiaqi Chu (Cambridge, Great Britain), Benn Charles Thomsen (Cambridge, Great Britain), Dushyanth Narayanan (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Antony Ian Taylor Rowstron (Cambridge, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of performing a write operation in a holographic data storage system, in which schedule schedules at least one write operation across multiple non-contiguous write intervals, the write operation pertaining to a set of data to be stored in a region of a holographic recording mediu...