Patents by Inventor Michael L. Ivers

Michael L. Ivers 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).

  • Disk drive for communicating with removable media that include media type identification information
    Patent number: 5363255
    Abstract: A diskette comprising a jacket, a liner material disposed within said jacket, a flat circular media having a magnetic coating on both sides disposed within said liner material, a hub attached at the center of said media, a plurality of optical positioning tracks on at least one of said sides of said media, and a media type code optically embossed on at least one of said sides of said media. The media type code contains information about the physical properties of the particular diskette that will allow a disk drive unit to auto-configure itself to allow optimum data communication and performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 8, 1994
    Assignee: Insite Peripherals, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael L. Ivers, Andrew M. Rose, Alton B. Otis, Jr.
  • Magnetically indelible media type identification system
    Patent number: 5210672
    Abstract: A diskette comprising a jacket, a liner material disposed within said jacket, a flat circular media having a magnetic coating on both sides disposed within said liner material, a hub attached at the center of said media, a plurality of optical positioning tracks on at least one of said sides of said media, and a media type code optically embossed on at least one of said sides of said media. The media type code contains information about the physical properties of the particular diskette that will allow a disk drive unit to auto-configure itself to allow optimum data communication and performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 1990
    Date of Patent: May 11, 1993
    Assignee: Insite Peripherals, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael L. Ivers, Andrew M. Rose, Alton B. Otis, Jr.