Patents by Inventor William O. Thweatt

William O. Thweatt 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 labeling a removable media cartridge
    Patent number: 5721655
    Abstract: A method is provided for labeling a removable media cartridge (10). The removable media cartridge (10) encloses a storage media (13) and has an external label (15). The removable media cartridge (10) is mounted in physical hardware for writing data to the storage media (13). A label number is selected for the removable media cartridge (10). An internal label (14) is then written to the storage media (13) where the internal label (14) represents the selected label number, and data is written to the external label (15) where the data also represents the selected label number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 24, 1998
    Assignee: Electronic Data Systems Corporation
    Inventor: William O. Thweatt