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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 2011
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2008
Pingfan Peter Wu, Woodbury, MN (US);
Xiaolei Shi, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Zhiyuan Ren, Malta, NY (US);
Brian Lee Lawrence, Niskayuna, NY (US);
John Erik Hershey, Ballston Lake, NY (US);
Kenneth Brakeley Welles, Scotia, NY (US);
John Anderson Fergus Ross, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Victor Petrovich Ostroverkhov, Ballston Lake, NY (US);
Pingfan Peter Wu, Woodbury, MN (US);
Xiaolei Shi, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Zhiyuan Ren, Malta, NY (US);
Brian Lee Lawrence, Niskayuna, NY (US);
John Erik Hershey, Ballston Lake, NY (US);
Kenneth Brakeley Welles, Scotia, NY (US);
John Anderson Fergus Ross, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Victor Petrovich Ostroverkhov, Ballston Lake, NY (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A data storage device including: a plastic substrate having a plurality of data volumes arranged along tracks in a plurality of stacked layers; a plurality of micro-holograms each contained in a corresponding one of the data volumes; a plurality of complementary volumes, each corresponding to and being substantially aligned with one of the data volumes; a plurality of micro-holograms each contained in a corresponding one of the complementary volumes; wherein, the presence or absence of a micro-hologram in each of the data volumes is indicative of a corresponding portion of data stored; and, the ones of the complementary volumes corresponding to the ones of the data volumes containing a micro-hologram do not contain a micro-hologram; and the ones of the complementary volumes corresponding to the ones of the data volumes not containing a micro-hologram contain a micro-hologram.