US Patent Issued to Marvell Asia on March 18 for "Digital timing recovery in hard disk drive read channel for preamble reduction" (Colorado, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,899, issued on March 18, was assigned to Marvell Asia Pte Ltd (Singapore).

"Digital timing recovery in hard disk drive read channel for preamble reduction" was invented by Nitin Nangare (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and William J. Mitchem (Broomfield, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of reading data from a rotating magnetic storage medium, having at least one read head, includes storing respective digitized data samples from each respective read head of the at least one read head in a respective timing buffer, determining a zero-phase start phase angle from a preamble of the digitized data samples, feeding forward the zero-phase ...