US Patent Issued to SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY on July 1 for "Head health monitor triggered data field integrity check" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,463, issued on July 1, was assigned to SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC (Fremont, Calif.).

"Head health monitor triggered data field integrity check" was invented by Sandeep Bhushan (Longmont, Colo.), Carl Stephen Arnold (Ontario, Canada), Deepak Prakash (Shakopee, Minn.) and Vidur Parkash (Shakopee, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Read and write transducer elements have very high reliability for most of their respective lives. Only a small percentage of transducer elements fail after a significant duration of operation in the field, but failure rate ramps up significantly with as the transducer elements age, particularly with heavy read a...