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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.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 27, 2011

Filed:

Feb. 10, 2009
Applicants:

Stephan Knappmann, Zimmern ob Rottweil, DE;

Michael Krause, Villingen-Schwenningen, DE;

Stefan Kimmelmann, Pfaffenweiler, DE;

Inventors:

Stephan Knappmann, Zimmern ob Rottweil, DE;

Michael Krause, Villingen-Schwenningen, DE;

Stefan Kimmelmann, Pfaffenweiler, DE;

Assignee:

Thomson Licensing, Princeton, NJ (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 7/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

The optical storage medium comprises a substrate layer, and a data layer having a mark/space data structure with data arranged in tracks on the substrate layer, , wherein between neighboring tracks alternatingly a groove section or a land section without a groove is arranged. The tracks, groove sections and land sections may be arranged by providing a single spiral, two spirals, or four spirals on the optical storage medium. The optical storage medium is in particular an optical disc comprising a nonlinear layer with a super-resolution structure arranged above the data layer.


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