NEC Assigned Patent

NEC Corporation, Tokyo, Japan, has been assigned a patent (9,443,549) developed by Ichimura, Takahiro, Hashi, Shigeyoshi, Ishii, Yoshiyuki, Noguchi, Wataru, and Hayakawa, Yuuki, Tokyo, Japan, for a “library device and library device control method.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A control unit refers to a logical library information storage unit in response to a reception of an export process command from an external device, identifies one of the logical library units which is correlated with a physical recording medium in a physical library unit which has been ordered by the export process command to been ejected from an ejection slot, and correlates, in the identified logical library unit, the ejection slot to a logical recording medium which is correlated to the physical recording medium which has been ordered to been ejected.“

The patent application was filed on December 27, 2013 (14/142,089).