Mayergoyz Receives Patent for Data Recovery Research

Prof. Isaak Mayergoyz

A University of Maryland group consisting of ECE Professor Dr. Isaak Mayergoyz, ECE Research Associate Dr. Chun Tse, and Laboratory for Physical Sciences Senior Engineer Dr. Charles Krafft, has received U.S. patent number 7,002,762 for their invention, titled “Method for intersymbol interference removal in data recovery.”

The invention allows users to perform drive-independent data recovery after a catastrophic drive failure using a special method in which intersymbol interference is removed and the readback signal corresponding to the original data is preserved.

More information is available at the U.S. Patents website: http://www.uspto.gov/.

Published February 28, 2006