Quantum Assigned Patent

Quantum Corp., San Jose, CA, has been assigned a patent (11475922) developed by Baker, Jesse, Sheridan, CO, and Yearsley, William A., Centennial, CO, for a “storage apparatus for shuffling removable storage media.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “The technology disclosed herein enables a gripper to shuffle items of removable storage media within a storage apparatus for those items. In a particular embodiment, an apparatus includes a housing for items of removable storage media. A top channel and a bottom channel are shaped to accept and store the items in respective single-file rows via an opening at one end of the rows. The apparatus also includes a shuffler for moving a first subset of the items, including ones of the items located in the bottom channel, towards the opening. When in a resting position, the shuffler includes a catch located at the opening and is connected to a rake at a closed side of the housing at an opposite end from the opening. The rake moves the first subset towards the opening when a gripper grips the catch and pulls outward from the opening. The shuffler returns to the resting position when the gripper releases the catch.“

The patent application was filed on 2022-02-08 (17/667329).