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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:
Feb. 19, 2008
Filed:
Jun. 29, 2004
Applicants:
Kelly J. Reasoner, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Gregg S. Schmidtke, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Thomas D. Benson, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Inventors:
Kelly J. Reasoner, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Gregg S. Schmidtke, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Thomas D. Benson, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 17/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A storage system includes at least one storage medium having a label, the label having a width extending along a first axis. The tape storage system further includes a reader to read the label based on light scanned across the label, where the reader has a light sensing portion extending along a second axis that is inclined with respect to the first axis.