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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 17, 2006
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2003
Applicants:
Fred C. Thomas, Iii, Ogden, UT (US);
David W. Griffith, Layton, UT (US);
Inventors:
Fred C. Thomas, III, Ogden, UT (US);
David W. Griffith, Layton, UT (US);
Assignee:
Iomega Corporation, San Diego, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 7/241 (2006.01); G11B 23/03 (2006.01); G11B 33/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A removable magnetic data storage cartridges incorporates antiferromagnetically coupled (AFC) media and may be used with a data drive to push the capacity point of removable hard platter based magnetic storage to 35 GB for a single platter 2.5″ form factor product. The removable magnetic data storage cartridges incorporating AFC media represents an equivalent increase in the areal density of removable magnetic data storage cartridges on the order of 13×.