US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on March 31 for "Holographic storage hardware enabled locking" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,255, issued on March 31, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Holographic storage hardware enabled locking" was invented by Thomas Michael Sherwood (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.), Tristan Justine Langley (Beacon, N.Y.), Andrew C. M. Hicks (Highland, N.Y.), Ryan Thomas Rawlins (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.) and Joshua Edward Beha (Wappingers Falls, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Holographic storage hardware enabled locking includes directing a first reference beam associated with a first process at a storage location in a holographic data storage medium, and detecting, with a detector while the first reference beam...