ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 17 -- Agere Systems, Allentown, Pennsylvania, has been assigned a patent (8,854,758) developed by two co-inventors for a "track defect map for a disk drive data storage system." The co-inventors are Walter Allen, Longmont, Colorado, and Robert Alan Reid, Superior, Colorado.

The patent application was filed on May 19, 2006 (11/419,279). The full text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2 . . .