US Patent Issued to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) on Aug. 11 for "Systems and methods of determining optical data storage lifespan" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,123, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio).

"Systems and methods of determining optical data storage lifespan" was invented by Christopher Edward Flores (San Antonio), Priyadarshini Badugu (Frisco, Texas), Subhalakshmi Selvam (Allen, Texas), Timothy Blair Chalmers (San Antonio), Gregory Brian Meyer (San Antonio), Heather Hernandez (San Antonio) and Kenan Neil Bubela (Boerne, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical data system includes an optical storage medium, and a header region encoded with lifespan data indicative of a predicted useful lifespan. The optical storage ...