ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,929, issued on July 14, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Reduction of intersymbol interference by matching a voxel lattice constant and a point spread function shadow in optical systems" was invented by Tuomo Antero Von Lerber (Helsinki) and Anton Viljami Autere (Jarvenpaa, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technology is disclosed for improving read accuracy and storage capacity in optical data storage systems. The technology includes writing, with an optical write system, voxels into a voxel lattice having a voxel lattice constant (VLC) of an optical storage medium and reading, with an optic...