Trustees of University of Pennsylvania Assigned Patent

The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, has been assigned a patent (9,478,244) developed by Carpick, Robert W., Philadelphia, PA, and Sridharan, Kumar, Madison, WI, for a “method and material for protecting magnetic information storage media.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A method of protecting a magnetic information storage medium is described. The method includes fabricating a film over a surface of the magnetic information storage medium. The film includes an amorphous, uniform, homogeneous solid solution of carbon, hydrogen, silicon, and oxygen. A magnetic storage medium with such a protective film is described.“

The patent application was filed on September 15, 2014 (14/486,397).