US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on July 28 for "Reading voxels in an optical storage medium using off-axis lighting" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,901, issued on July 28, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Reading voxels in an optical storage medium using off-axis lighting" was invented by Simo Kaarlo Tapani Tammela (Espoo, Finland), Anton Viljami Autere (Jarvenpaa, Finland) and Esa Tapani Raikkonen (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An off-axis lighting system for optical storage media comprises a Gaussian laser illumination source and illumination optics including collimating and cylindrical lenses. The system generates an illumination beam that propagates through the optical storage medium at angles different from the optical ax...