ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,767, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).

"Data access method, storage medium drive, and storage device" was invented by Guiyou Pu (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hard disk includes a storage medium, an interface, and a processor. The storage medium is configured to provide a storage space including a plurality of logical units. Each logical unit internally stores data in an append-only write manner, a storage space corresponding to each logical unit comes from one or more erase blocks in the hard disk, and the erase block is a minimum erase unit of the hard disk. The inter...