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Article: Patent No. 7,574,715 Issued on Aug. 11, Assigned to Apple for Disk Drive Media Access System (California Inventors)
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- August 12, 2009
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- Bartley K. Andre and Brett William Degner, both of Menlo Park, Calif., Greg Springer of Sunnyvale, Calif., and Chris Ligtenberg of San Carlos, Calif., have developed a disk drive media access system. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. 7,574,715 on Aug. 11.
The patent has been assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, Calif.
According to the abstract released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A disk drive media access system opens a media access door to the interior of a disk drive sufficiently for ejection of disk media ...