US Patent Issued to SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY on Aug. 5 for "Wear leveling and grouping of drives based on position in chassis" (Colorado, Minnesota, New Mexico Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,851, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC (Fremont, Calif.).

"Wear leveling and grouping of drives based on position in chassis" was invented by John Michael Bent (Los Alamos, N.M.), Riyan Alex Mendonsa (Edina, Minn.), Serkay Olmez (Longmont, Colo.), Nicholas James Dance (Boulder, Colo.), Jon D. Trantham (Chanhassen, Minn.), Ian Davies (Longmont, Colo.) and Stephen S. Huh (Boulder, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor may determine, for each subdevice of a set of subdevices of a storage enclosure device, one or more reliability measures of the subdevice. A processor may determine, based at least on the ...