ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,753, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Seagate Technology LLC (Fremont, Calif.).

"Multidimensional optical storage media having light confinement layers and reading methodology therefor" was invented by Riyan Alex Mendonsa (Edina, Minn.), Aditya Jain (Minneapolis) and Joachim Walter Ahner (Livermore, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are optical recording media for recording data in voxels, the optical recording media including a plurality of data recording regions for recording the voxels, the data recording regions separated by buffer regions having optical properties such that illumination from a reader that enters ...