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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2008
Kenneth Brakeley Welles, Scotia, NY (US);
Zhiyuan Ren, Malta, NY (US);
Brian Lee Lawrence, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Pingfan Peter Wu, Woodbury, MN (US);
John Erik Hershey, Ballston Lake, NY (US);
Xiaolei Shi, Niskayuna, NY (US);
John Anderson Fergus Ross, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Victor Petrovich Ostroverkhov, Ballston Lake, NY (US);
Kenneth Brakeley Welles, Scotia, NY (US);
Zhiyuan Ren, Malta, NY (US);
Brian Lee Lawrence, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Pingfan Peter Wu, Woodbury, MN (US);
John Erik Hershey, Ballston Lake, NY (US);
Xiaolei Shi, Niskayuna, 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 volumes arranged in tracks along a plurality of vertically stacked, laterally extending layers therein; and, a plurality of micro-holograms each contained in a corresponding one of the volumes; herein, the presence or absence of a micro-hologram in each of the volumes is indicative of a corresponding portion of data stored.