PatentBrief

Inventor

Ralph Flores

Patents indexed

1

Year range

1972

Associated with

Years active

1972

Total patents

1

Most recent

1972

Frequent collaborator

Herbert E Thompson

Domains

consumer_electronicsmechanicalsemiconductors

Activity by decade

1970s
1

Patents

1

Career timeline

1 patents, in 1972

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US 3668658·1972·International Business Machines Corp

How the Floppy Disk's Protective Jacket Cleans the Disk

An IBM patent from 1972 describing a protective, non-removable cover for a magnetic disk that uses a built-in cleaning material to wipe the disk surface while it spins.

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