Patents by Inventor Steffan Noehte

Steffan Noehte 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).

  • Method for inputting information into a data storage medium that is optically recordable and readable
    Patent number: 7193963
    Abstract: In a method of entering information into an optically writable and readable data storage medium having a polymer film which can be changed locally by heating in order to store information and to which there is assigned an absorber dye (34) which is set up to absorb a write beam (36), at least partly, and to transfer the heat produced in the process, at least partly, locally to the polymer film, first of all the absorber dye is heated locally in a predetermined region of the polymer film in accordance with the information to be entered, specifically by means of a pulsed write beam (36). After that, the absorption properties of the absorber dye (34) are changed by means of light, to be specific preferably by means of a fixing beam (37) which bleaches (38) the absorber dye (34) in the written region of the polymer film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2007
    Assignee: Tesa Scribos GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Stadler, Jorn Leiber, Annouschka Blazejewski, Christoph Dietrich, Kay Schulte-Wieking, Steffan Noehte