US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Sept. 8 for "Phase-modulated optical data storage" (British, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,610, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Phase-modulated optical data storage" was invented by Thomas Torsten DR Winkler (Cambridge, Great Britain), Rokas Drevinskas (Cambridge, Great Britain), Ariel Gomez Diaz (Cambridge, Great Britain), Charles Ernest Whittaker (Cambridge, Great Britain), Timothy John Deegan (Cambridge, Great Britain), James Hilton Clegg (Cambridge, Great Britain), Daniel Jonathan Finchley Cletheroe (Cambridge, Great Britain), Hugh David Paul Williams (Cambridge, Great Britain), Austin Nicholas Donnelly (Cambridge, Great Britain), Richard John Black (Cambridge, Great Britain), Masaaki Sakakura (Cambridge, Grea...