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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:
Dec. 30, 2008
Filed:
Jul. 30, 2004
Applicants:
Robert G. Mejia, Boise, ID (US);
Mauricio Huerta Alva, Boise, ID (US);
Inventors:
Robert G. Mejia, Boise, ID (US);
Mauricio Huerta Alva, Boise, ID (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 9/00 (2006.01); G11B 27/36 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A storage device includes a storage medium and a probe to read from and write to the storage medium. The storage medium has a plurality of storage regions, where each storage region contains information to identify whether another storage region is defective.