ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,001, issued on June 23, was assigned to RESONAC HARD DISK Corp. (Ichihara, Japan).

"Recording and reproducing device including a plurality of recording mediums" was invented by Fuminobu Oohashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A recording and reproducing device includes, a case; at least one recording medium having a disk-shape, a motor configured to rotate the at least one recording medium, a head configured to read or write information from or to the at least one recording medium, and an actuator configured to drive the head to scan in a radial direction of the at least one recording medium which are provided in the case; and ...