US Patent Issued to Seagate Technology on June 17 for "Speculative read regulation in hard disk drives having read reliability budgets" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,108, issued on June 17, was assigned to Seagate Technology LLC (Fremont, Calif.).

"Speculative read regulation in hard disk drives having read reliability budgets" was invented by Harry Tiotantra (Shugart, Singapore), Li Xin (Shugart, Singapore), Xu Huang (Shugart, Singapore) and Jeetandra Kella (Shugart, Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are systems, devices and methods for regulating speculative reading in a hard disk drive that has a read reliability budget. Regulating speculative reading under a read reliability budget involves selecting an amount of read look ahead (RLA) in response to determining whether or not...