US Patent Issued to Seagate Technology on Nov. 4 for "Hard disk drive having a motor assembly with a rotational balancing spring pin" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,842, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Seagate Technology LLC (Fremont, Calif.).

"Hard disk drive having a motor assembly with a rotational balancing spring pin" was invented by Li Hong Zhang (Singapore), Felicisimo T. Marquez Jr. (Singapore), Xiong Liu (Singapore) and Chee Kwong Cheng (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hard disk drive includes at least one magnetic disk and a motor assembly. The motor assembly is configured to rotatably support the magnetic disk(s) and circumferentially rotate the magnetic disk(s) about an axis of rotation during operations of the hard disk drive. The motor assembly includes at least one rot...