Patents by Inventor Mark Alan Zurbuchen

Mark Alan Zurbuchen has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Photographic silver emulsion-based digital archival storage
    Patent number: 8085304
    Abstract: A photographic digital data archival apparatus includes an article of media that includes a substrate and one or more layers of silver-emulsion based light-sensitive material, the article of media being configured to store digital data in the one or more layers and including a human-readable portion that provides instructions on reading and interpreting the digital data using basic imaging and computing technologies that do not require a person reading the instructions to previously possess or first acquire, as a prerequisite, knowledge of a format or encoding scheme associated with the digital data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: The Aerospace Corporation
    Inventors: Mark Alan Zurbuchen, Charles Thomas Hoskinson
  • Photographic Silver Emulsion-based Digital Archival Storage
    Publication number: 20100295967
    Abstract: A photographic digital data archival apparatus includes an article of media that includes a substrate and one or more layers of silver-emulsion based light-sensitive material, the article of media being configured to store digital data in the one or more layers and including a human-readable portion that provides instructions on reading and interpreting the digital data using basic imaging and computing technologies that do not require a person reading the instructions to previously possess or first acquire, as a prerequisite, knowledge of a format or encoding scheme associated with the digital data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2009
    Publication date: November 25, 2010
    Inventors: Mark Alan Zurbuchen, Charles Thomas Hoskinson