Elwha Assigned Two Patents

Atomic film data storage
Elwha LLC, Bellevue, WA, has been assigned a patent (9,177,600) developed by Chin, Hon Wah, Palo Alto, CA, Davidson, Howard Lee, San Carlos, CA, Hyde, Roderick A., Redmond, WA, Kare, Jordin T., Seattle, WA, Pasch, Nicholas F., Bellevue, WA, Petroski, Robert C., Seattle, WA, Tuckerman, David B., Lafayette, CA, and Wood, Jr., Lowell L., Bellevue, WA, for a “systems and methods for atomic film data storage.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”The present disclosure provides systems and methods associated with data storage using atomic films, such as graphene, boron nitride, or silicene. A platter assembly may include at least one platter that has one or more substantially planar surfaces. One or more layers of a monolayer atomic film, such as graphene, may be positioned on a planar surface. Data may be stored on the atomic film using one or more vacancies, dopants, defects, and/or functionalized groups, (presence or lack thereof) to represent one of a plurality of states in a multi-state data representation model, such as a binary, a ternary, or another base N data storage model. A read module may detect the vacancies, dopants, and/or functionalized groups, (or a topographical feature resulting therefrom) to read the data stored on the atomic film.“

The patent application was filed on August 29, 2013 (14/013,836).

Atomic film data storage
Elwha LLC, Bellevue, WA, has been assigned a patent (9,177,592) developed by Chin, Hon Wah, Palo Alto, CA, Davidson, Howard Lee, San Carlos, CA, Hyde, Roderick A., Redmond, WA, Kare, Jordin T., Seattle, WA, Pasch, Nicholas F., Bellevue, WA, Petroski, Robert C., Seattle, WA, Tuckerman, David B., Lafayette, CA, and Wood, Jr., Lowell L., Bellevue, WA, for a “systems and methods for atomic film data storage.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”The present disclosure provides systems and methods associated with data storage using atomic films, such as graphene, boron nitride, or silicene. A platter assembly may include at least one platter that has one or more substantially planar surfaces. One or more layers of a monolayer atomic film, such as graphene, may be positioned on a planar surface. Data may be stored on the atomic film using one or more vacancies, dopants, defects, and/or functionalized groups, presence (or lack thereof) to represent one of a plurality of states in a multi-state data representation model, such as a binary, a ternary, or another base N data storage model. A read module may detect the vacancies, dopants, and/or functionalized groups, (or a topographical feature resulting therefrom) to read the data stored on the atomic film.“

The patent application was filed on August 29, 2013 (14/013,828).