PROVIDENCE, R.I., June 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Spectra Systems Corporation announced it has received a Notice of Allowance from the Japanese Patent and Trademark Office for a new patent, "System for Applying Markings to Optical Media," related to the Company's MediaCoat technology, which allows the graphical labeling of optical media across the entire play side of a disc (CD, or DVD).

ROCHESTER, N.Y. and LOS ANGELES, Jan. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- KMG Digital announced today that Eastman Kodak Company has designated KMG as the exclusive worldwide licensee for Kodak branded optical blank media products and media accessories.

CUPERTINO, Calif. and GENEVA, July 2 /PRNewswire/ -- The Optical Storage Technology Association (OSTA) and Ecma International announced today the completion of their co-development work to issue an industry standard for optical media archive life testing that targets recordable and rewritable DVDs.