US Patent Issued to Western Digital Technologies on Sept. 23 for "Devices and methods for metal organic framework (MOF) based oxygen replenishment in data storage devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,248, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Western Digital Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Devices and methods for metal organic framework (MOF) based oxygen replenishment in data storage devices" was invented by Dongying Li (San Jose, Calif.), Mehdi Habibollahzadeh (San Jose, Calif.), Sukumar Rajauria (San Jose, Calif.) and Qing Dai (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage device may include an enclosure and a metal organic framework (MOF) container situated within an enclosure interior. The MOF container contains a MOF configured to store captive molecular units and to release the captive molecular unit...